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The impact of opportunity zones on private investment and economic activity
Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2023 - This draft: November 13, 2023
Place-based policies aim to stimulate economic development in disadvantaged areas with the goal of improving the well-being of residents. A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aimed to spur private investment in low-income areas called Opportunity Zones (OZs). We evaluate the impact of OZs on...
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Intra-household bargaining in poor countries
Baland, Jean-Marie; Ziparo, Roberta - 2017
This paper is intended to bridge the theoretical literature describing efficient intra-household behaviour and the development literature that collects empirical regularities pointing toward the existence of strategic decision-making among spouses. It examines the key elements of the collective...
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Essays in empirical development and education economics
Lange, Simon - 2015
This dissertation includes three empirical essays on development economics and one on the economics of education. The first essay (co-authored by Stephan Klasen) is a contribution to the debate surrounding the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the on-going debate about what international...
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Literacy and information
Tohari, Achmad; Parsons, Christopher R.; Rammohan, Anu - 2021
Information campaigns aimed at empowering the poor often fall short of meeting their desired aims. We study literacy's role in determining their efficacy. First, exploiting an RD design, we show that receipt of information increased household rice receipts by 30 percentage points. Second, we...
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Can Indonesia secure a development dividend from its resource export boom?
Shrestha, Rashesh; Coxhead, Ian - In: Bulletin of Indonesian economic studies 54 (2018) 1, pp. 1-24
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Inequality and fiscal redistribution in middle income countries : Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Indonesia, Mexico, Peru and South Africa
Lustig, Nora - In: Journal of globalization and development 7 (2016) 1, pp. 17-60
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Financial literacy and poverty reduction : the case of Indonesia
Askar, Media Wahyudi; Ouattara, Bazoumana; Zhang, Yin-Fang - 2020
and policy makers alike. This paper employs data from a nationally representative survey in Indonesia to investigate the … impact of financial literacy on poverty, which is a downstream welfare indicator. Consequently, we have constructed a … composite financial literacy index. Our results reveal that financial literacy plays an important role in reducing poverty. This …
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Can Indonesia secure a development dividend from its resource export boom?
Shrestha, Rashesh; Coxhead, Ian - 2018
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Inequality of human opportunities in developing Asia
Son, Hyun H. - In: Asian development review 30 (2013) 2, pp. 110-130
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Great Gatsby and the Global South : intergenerational mobility, income inequality, and development
Sakri, Diding; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory - 2023
In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. This 'Element' surveys the area, conceptually and empirically.
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