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Corridors without Borders in West Africa
Lebrand, Mathilde - 2021
This paper estimates the welfare gains from upgrading several major regional corridors in West Africa. It uses a quantitative economic geography framework with trade within and across countries and mobility of people within countries to assess the economic impacts of the reduction in trade costs...
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Development at the Border : Policies and National Integration in Cote d'Ivoire and its Neighbors
Cogneau, Denis; Mesple-Somps, Sandrine; Spielvogel, Gilles - 2014
Regression discontinuity designs applied to a set of household surveys from the 1980-90s allow to examine whether Cote d'Ivoire's aggregate wealth was translated at the borders of neighboring countries. At the border of Ghana and at the end of the 1980s, large discontinuities are detected for...
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Enforceability of Labor Law : Evidence from a Labor Court in Mexico
Kaplan, David S.; Sadka, Joyce - 2012
The authors analyze lawsuits involving publicly-appointed lawyers in a labor court in Mexico to study how a rigid law …
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Risk-Based Supervision of Pension Funds : A Review of International Experience and Preliminary Assessment of the First Outcomes
Brunner, Gregory; Hinz, Richard; Rocha, Roberto - 2012
description of pension supervision in Australia, Denmark, Mexico and the Netherlands, and an initial evaluation of the results …
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Mental Health Patterns and Consequences : Results from Survey Data in Five Developing Countries
Das, Jishnu; Do, Quy-Toan; Friedman, Jed - 2012
surveys in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indonesia, and Mexico, along with special surveys from India and Tonga, show similar …
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An Empirical Analysis of Mexican Merger Policy
Avalos, Marcos; De Hoyos, Rafael E. - 2012
A newly created dataset including 239 decisions made by the Mexican Federal Competition Commission on horizontal mergers between 1997 and 2001 is used to estimate the different factors affecting the Commission's resolution. The paper approximates the decision making process using two different...
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License to Sell : The Effect of Business Registration Reform on Entrepreneurial Activity in Mexico
Bruhn, Miriam - 2012
identification strategy exploits the fact that a recent business registration reform in Mexico was introduced in different …
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Empowering Parents to Improve Education : Evidence from Rural Mexico
Gertler, Paul; Patrinos, Harry; Rubio-Codina, Marta - 2012
Mexico's compensatory education program provides extra resources to primary schools that enroll disadvantaged students …
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Foreign Bank Acquisitions and Outreach : Evidence from Mexico
Beck, Thorsten; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad - 2012
impact on banking outreach using newly gathered data for Mexico, where foreign bank participation rose from 2 percent to 83 …
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Self-Selection Patterns in Mexico-U.S. Migration : The Role of Migration Networks
McKenzie, David; Rapoport, Hillel - 2012
The authors examine the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration … from Mexico, the authors then show that the probability of migration is increasing with education in communities with low … by lower returns to education in the U.S. than in Mexico. …
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