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Shocking Offers : Gender, Wage Inequality, and Recessions in Online Labor Markets

Archibong, Belinda; Henry, Peter Blair - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Using data from the largest online job portal in Nigeria, we document: (a) gender differences in salary offers for jobs, and (b) the response of (a) to recessions. Jobs in industries where the number of job applicants skews female, offer lower starting salaries than jobs in industries where...

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The Prices in the Crises : What We Are Learning from Twenty Years of Health Insurance in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Das, Jishnu; Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Governments in many low- and middle-income countries are developing health insurance products as a complement to tax-funded, subsidized provision of health care through publicly operated facilities. This paper discusses two rationales for this transition. First, health insurance would boost...

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Revisiting the Eswaran-Kotwal Model of Tenancy

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Mookherjee, Dilip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Persistence of sharecropping tenancy and increases in farm productivity following regulations protecting tenant rights have been observed in many developing countries. This paper examines if these can be explained by alternative models of sharecropping with two sided efforts/investments, namely,...

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Unconditional Cash Transfers : A Bayesian Meta-Analysis of Randomized Evaluations in Low and Middle Income Countries

Crosta, Tommaso; Karlan, Dean; Ong, Finley; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We use Bayesian meta-analysis methods to estimate the impact of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) on twelve primary outcomes from 114 studies of 72 UCT programs in middle and low income countries. Cash transfers generate strong and positive average treatment effects on ten of thirteen...

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Firm Adaptation to Climate Change

Grover, Arti; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We survey the microeconomics literature that studies how firms in the developing world are adapting to extreme weather, local pollution, and natural disasters. Climate change increases the uncertainty that every firm must address as it decides where and how to produce and who to trade with. We...

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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data

Peri, Giovanni - 2019

urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …

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The Globalization of the Software Industry : Perspectives and Opportunities for Developed and Developing Countries

Arora, Asish - 2004

The spectacular growth of the software industry in some non-G7 economies has aroused both interest and concern. This paper addresses two sets of inter-related issues. First, we explore the determinants of these successful stories. We then touch upon the broader question of what lessons, if any,...

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Interest Rates, Contagion and Capital Controls

Edwards, Sebastian - 2000

In this paper I analyze several issues related to contagion,' including its definition, recent experiences, alternative channels at work, and possible prevention mechanisms. The discussion deals with the macroeconomics implications of contagion, and concentrates on the relationship between the...

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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America : A View and Three Case Studies

Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000

better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …

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Can Emerging Market Bank Regulators Establish Credible Discipline? The Case of Argentina, 1992-1999

Calomiris, Charles W. - 2000

In the early 1990s, after decades of high inflation and financial repression, Argentina embarked on a course of … banking system during the liberalization process. Argentina suffered some fallout from the Mexican tequila crisis of 1995, but … discipline after the crisis made Argentina's banking system quite resilient during the Asian, Russian, and Brazilian crises …

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