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Identifying the Cost of a Public Health Success : Arsenic Well Water Contamination and Productivity in Bangladesh

Pitt, Mark M. - 2015

incorporating optimizing behavior to uncover the hidden costs of arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh. We provide for the first time … capabilities as well as on the schooling attainment, occupational structure, entrepreneurship and incomes of the rural Bangladesh … of rural households in Bangladesh who are participants in a long-term panel survey following respondents and their …

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Agricultural Trade Reform and Rural Prosperity : Lessons from China

Huang, Jikun - 2008

Tariffs on agricultural products fell sharply in China both prior to, and as a consequence of, China's accession to the WTO. The paper examines the nature of agricultural trade reform in China since 1981, and finds that protection was quite strongly negative for most commodities, and...

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Rural Income Volatility and Inequality in China

Whalley, John - 2006

Available data indicates a growing urban-rural income gap (the ratio of mean urban to rural incomes) with a significant increase from around 1.8 in the late 1980's to over 3 today. These estimates do not take into account the higher volatility of rural incomes in China. Current literature based...

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Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China

Ravallion, Martin; Chen, Shaohua - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as "China's Kuznets curve." We show that the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little explanatory power for our new series of inequality...

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Measuring Commuting and Economic Activity inside Cities with Cell Phone Records

Kreindler, Gabriel E.; Miyauchi, Yuhei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city. A simple workplace choice model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose destination fixed effects correspond to wages. We implement this method with cell phone transaction data from Dhaka...

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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia

Angrist, Joshua D. - 2005

Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...

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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David - 2015

Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …

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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2015

Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600 households were randomly assigned to control, information or subsidy …

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Manufacturing Growth and the Lives of Bangladeshi Women

Heath, Rachel - 2014

We study the effects of explosive growth in the Bangladeshi ready-made garments industry on the lives on Bangladeshi women. We compare the marriage, childbearing, school enrollment and employment decisions of women who gain greater access to garment sector jobs to women living further away from...

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Under-investment in a Profitable Technology : The Case of Seasonal Migration in Bangladesh

Bryan, Gharad - 2014

assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural Bangladesh to temporarily out-migrate during the lean season. The incentive …

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