Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and … for non-eligible households living in treated areas. We find that this effect is positive, and that it occurs through … changes in the insurance and credit markets: non-eligible households receive more transfers, and borrow more when hit by a …

Aid programs in developing countries are likely to affect all households living in the treated areas, both eligible and … for non-eligible households living in treated areas. We find that this effect is positive, and that it occurs through … changes in the insurance and credit markets: non-eligible households receive more transfers, and borrow more when hit by a …

understand how the various informal institutions (shared mental models) have influenced key dimensions of technology strategy …

The notion that foreign aid harms the institutions of recipient governments remains prevalent. We combine new … disaggregated aid data and various metrics of political institutions to re-examine this relationship. Long-run cross-section and … alternative dynamic panel estimators show a small positive net effect of total aid on political institutions. Distinguishing …

Institutions are now widely believed to be important in explaining performance. In this paper, we analyze whether … commonly used measures of institutions have any significant, measurable impact on performance, whether of countries or firms …. We look at three 'levels' of institutions and associated conjectures. The first concerns whether the political system …