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Fighting Communism Supporting Collusion
Galiani, Sebastián; Paz y Miño, José Manuel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a simple model to explain why a powerful importer country like the United States may provide political support for international collusive agreements concerning certain commodities (e.g., coffee). This behavior raises questions due to the fact that an importer country should have...
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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries
Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...
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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
sector managers can signal reform effectiveness through personal commitment, acting as leaders …
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Occupational Hazard? An Analysis of Birth Outcomes Among Physician Mothers
Jena, Anupam B.; Slusky, David; Springer, Lilly - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Education 2011 duty hour reform, which lowered trainee work hours, impacted the birth outcomes of babies born to physicians … driven by physicians in surgical specialties. However, the duty hour reform appears to not have impacted birth outcomes. Thus …, we find that physicians tend to have worse birth outcomes than lawyers and, in this case, the work reform did little to …
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The Foreign Service and Foreign Trade : Embassies as Export Promotion
Rose, Andrew K. - 2005
As communication costs fall, foreign embassies and consulates have lost much of their role in decision-making and information-gathering. Accordingly, foreign services are increasingly marketing themselves as agents of export promotion. I investigate whether exports are in fact systematically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467574
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Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
Dube, Arindrajit - 2011
We estimate the impact of coups and top-secret coup authorizations on asset prices of partially nationalized multinational companies that stood to benefit from US-backed coups. Stock returns of highly exposed firms reacted to coup authorizations classified as top-secret. The average cumulative...
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Do Corrupt Governments Receive Less Foreign Aid?
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
Critics of foreign aid programs argue that these funds often support corrupt governments and inefficient bureaucracies. Supporters argue that foreign aid can be used to reward good governments. This paper documents that there is no evidence that less corrupt governments receive more foreign aid....
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Long Run Effects of Aid : Forecasts and Evidence from Sierra Leone
Casey, Katherine; Glennerster, Rachel; Miguel, Edward; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We evaluate the long-run effects of a decentralized approach to economic development, called community driven development (CDD), a prominent strategy for delivering foreign aid. Notably we revisit a randomized CDD program in Sierra Leone 11 years after launch. We estimate large persistent gains...
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Assistance to the Poor in a Federal System
Brown, Charles - 1985
This paper explores the roles of different levels of government in assisting the poor. Using a model with utility interdependence, the paper presents some theoretical results on how levels of poor relief vary with the extent of mobility of the poor under both centralized and decentralized...
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Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University
Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 1982
Recent federal cut-backs of financial support for undergraduates have worsened the financial position of colleges and universities and required them to debate how they will allocate their scarce financial aid resources.Our paper contributes to the debate by providing a model of optimal financial...
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