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Informal Fiscal Systems in Developing Countries

Aman-Rana, Shan; Minaudier, Clement; Sukhtankar, Sandip - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

arise when monitoring corruption is difficult relative to monitoring the provision of public services, and politically …-important groups of citizens do not bear the full cost of corruption. The existence of such systems can distort the effective incidence … of the tax burden, reduce the incentives of government to fight corruption, and legitimize bribe-taking …

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How Does Expropriation Risk Affect Innovation?

Benavente H., José Miguel; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of …

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How to Fund Unemployment Insurance with Informality and False Claims : Evidence From Senegal

Ndiaye, Abdoulaye; Herkenhoff, Kyle; Cisse, Abdoulaye; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper studies the welfare effects of unemployment insurance (UI) in low-income countries characterized by high levels of informality, weak enforcement of UI claims, and job search frictions. We assess the impact of UI on workers' welfare in the presence of moral hazard and liquidity...

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Preparing for an Aging Africa : Data-Driven Priorities for Economic Research and Policy

Duhon, Madeline E.; Miguel, Edward; Njuguna, Amos; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The over-60 population in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to grow rapidly in the coming decades, tripling between 2020 and 2050. Despite this explosive projected growth, few countries in the region have implemented policies designed to support older populations. Further, little research in...

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Labor Migration, Capital Accumulation, and the Structure of Rural Labor Markets

Dinkelman, Taryn; Kumchulesi, Grace; Mariotti, Martine - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Between 1967 and 1974, a bilateral treaty increased circular labor migration from Malawi to South Africa by 200%, bringing over 53 million USD in earnings into origin communities. A deadly migrant worker plane crash in 1974 ended these flows and led to migrant repatriation. We study how this...

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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access

Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that ethnically remote locations do not reap the full peace dividend from increased market access. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for...

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The Social Tax : Redistributive Pressure and Labor Supply

Carranza Noguera, Eliana; Donald, Aletheia; Grosset, Florian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In low-income communities, pressure to share income with others may disincentivize work, distorting labor supply. We document that across countries, social groups that undertake more interpersonal transfers work fewer hours. Using a field experiment, we enable piece-rate factory workers in Côte...

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Imperfect Competition and Sanitation : Evidence from Randomized Auctions in Senegal

Houde, Jean-François; Johnson, Terence; Lipscomb, Molly; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the extent to which collusion can explain the under-provision of clean sanitation technologies in developing countries. Using desludging services in Dakar as a case-study, we document that prices are 66% higher in areas where prices are likely coordinated by a large trade association,...

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Self-Employment Within the Firm

Bassi, Vittorio; Lee, Jay; Peter, Alessandra; Porzio, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for establishments of all sizes and argue that this is likely due to the prevalence of product customization. We then develop a...

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Declining Clientelism of Welfare Benefits? Targeting and Political Competition based Evidence from an Indian state

Maitra, Pushkar; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

It has been argued that since 2014, under the BJP-led central government, welfare benefits in India have become better targeted and less prone to clientelistic control by state and local governments. Arguably this has helped to increase the vote share of the BJP vis-a-vis regional parties. We...

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