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Making Policies Matter : Voter Responses to Campaign Promises
Cruz, Cesi - 2018
multidimensional campaign promises from political candidates in consecutive mayoral elections in the Philippines. Voters who are …
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Aspirations and Financial Decisions : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
McKenzie, David J.; Mohpal, Aakash; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
A randomized experiment among poor entrepreneurs tested the impact of exogenously inducing higher financial aspirations. In theory, raising aspirations could have positive effects by inducing higher effort, but could also reduce effort if unmet aspirations lead to frustration. Treatment resulted...
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Corruption in Developing Countries
Olken, Benjamin A. - 2011
Recent years have seen a remarkable expansion in economists' ability to measure corruption. This, in turn, has led to a … new generation of well-identified, microeconomic studies. We review the evidence on corruption in developing countries in … light of these recent advances, focusing on three questions: how much corruption is there, what are the efficiency …
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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials
Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the recent anti-corruption campaign. An analysis of a separate cross-city dataset corroborates the key conclusion …
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Credit Supply Shocks and Firm Dynamics : Evidence from Brazil
Bazzi, Samuel; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Oliveira, Raquel F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We explore how financial constraints distort the entry decisions among otherwise productive entrepreneurs and limit growth of promising young firms. A model of liquidity-constrained entrepreneurs suggests that the easing of credit constraints can induce more entry of firms with greater long-run...
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on COVID-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to exchange rate shocks. The initial shock to migrant income is magnified …
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The Short Term Impact of a Productive Asset Transfer in Families with Child Labor : Experimental Evidence from the Philippines
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2019
labor to convert the asset into income. Using a clustered randomized trial, we work with the Government of the Philippines …
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Undisclosed Debt Sustainability
Alfaro, Laura - 2019
Over the past decade, non-Paris Club creditors, notably China, have become an important source of financing for low- and middle-income countries. In contrast with typical sovereign debt, these lending arrangements are not public, and other creditors have no information about their magnitude. We...
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Political Dynasties, Term Limits and Female Political Empowerment : Evidence from the Philippines
Labonne, Julien - 2019
We investigate the effect of term limits on female political representation. Using data from Philippine municipalities where strict term limits have been in place since 1987, we show that term limits led to a large increase in the number of women running and winning in mayoral elections....
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