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Health Shocks under Hospital Capacity Constraint : Evidence from Air Pollution in Sao Paulo, Brazil

Guidetti, Bruna Morais; Pereda, Paula Carvalho; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

How responsive to health shocks are healthcare systems in the developing world? Developing countries are known to have both lower levels of hospital infrastructure and serious health shocks driven by air pollution. These shocks are transitory and may be marginal relative to other health demands,...

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Shortening the Path to Productive Investment : Evidence from Input Fairs and Cash Transfers in Malawi

Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; Kumar, Naresh; Park, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

While cash transfers consistently show large effects on immediate outcomes like consumption, limited access to markets may mute their impact on productive investment. In an experiment in Malawi, we cross-cut cash transfers with an "input fair," designed to reduce transport costs to access...

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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil

Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility … implications for policymakers that want to advocate for renewable energy in their towns. While for solar, the main benefit … constitutes a short-term increase in low-skilled employment and public revenues, wind energy provides more long-term financial …

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Quality Signaling and Demand for Renewable Energy Technology : Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment

Coville, Aidan; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Reichert, Arndt R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Solar technologies have been associated with private and social returns, but their technological potential often remains unachieved because of persistently low demand for high-quality products. In a randomized field experiment in Senegal, we assess the potential of three types of quality...

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The Dynamic Effects of Cash Transfers to Agricultural Households

Aggarwal, Shilpa; Aker, Jenny C.; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

While cash transfers will tautologically increase contemporaneous consumption, it is unclear whether these gains will persist, especially in rural agricultural settings with limited productive investment opportunities. Using bi-monthly survey data from recipients of a large, unconditional cash...

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Melitz Meets Lewis : The Impacts of Roads on Structural Transformation and Businesses

Kaboski, Joseph Paul; Lu, Jianyu; Qian, Wei; Ren, Lixia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines the impact of roads on structural transformation and business composition theoretically and empirically. We develop a two-sector model of regional trade with endogenous firm entry that highlights two opposing forces. \textit{Ceteris paribus} lower trade costs in...

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Breaking Boundaries : Lower Tail Dependence Can Triple the Economic Value of Index Insurance for Rural Households

Estefania-Salazar, Enrique; Carter, Michael R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Despite its promise to help low-wealth households manage climate risk, index insurance remains hampered by downside basis risk, meaning that an insured party suffers a loss, but receives no payment because the insurance index fails to register a loss. While efforts to reduce basis risk focus on...

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Input Subsidies and the Destruction of Natural Capital : Chinese Distant Water Fishing

Englander, Gabriel; Zhang, Jihua; Villaseñor-Derbez, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Input subsidies in natural resource sectors are widely believed to cause depletion of the natural capital on which those sectors rely. But identification and data challenges have stymied attempts to empirically estimate the causal effect of subsidies on resource extraction. China's fishing fleet...

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The Macroeconomics of Intensive Agriculture

Boppart, Timo; Kiernan, Patrick; Krusell, Per; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Developing countries employ a very large share of their workforce in agriculture, a sector in which their labor productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct a new database with systematic measures of inputs and...

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Blue Spoons : Sparking Communication About Appropriate Technology Use

Chandrasekhar, Arun G.; Duflo, Esther; Kremer, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

An enduring puzzle regarding technology adoption in developing countries is that new technologies often diffuse slowly through the social network. Two of the key predictions of the canonical epidemiological model of technology diffusion are that forums to share information and higher returns to...

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