Documents et rapports
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What the Mean Measures of Mobility Miss : Learning About Intergenerational Mobility from Conditional Variance (anglais)
To understand the role of family background in intergenerational mobility, a large literature has focused on the conditional mean of children's economic outcomes given parent's economic status, while ignoring...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10074 Date du document: 6 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahsan,Md. Nazmul,Emran, M. Shahe,Jiang,Hanchen,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Admission is free only if your dad is rich! distributional effects of corruption in schools in developing countries (anglais)
In the standard model of corruption, the rich are more likely to pay bribes for their children's education, reflecting higher ability to pay. This prediction is, however, driven by the assumption that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6671 Date du document: 1 octobre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran, M. Shahe,Islam, Asadul,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Microfinance and moneylenders : long-run effects of MFIs on informal credit market in Bangladesh (anglais)
Using two surveys from Bangladesh, this paper provides evidence on the effects of microfinance competition on village moneylender interest rates and households' dependence on informal credit. The views...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6619 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berg,Claudia N.,Emran, M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Gender, geography and generations : intergenerational educational mobility in post-reform India (anglais)
India experienced sustained economic growth for more than two decades following the economic liberalization in 1991. While economic growth reduced poverty significantly, it was associated with an increase...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6055 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran, M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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General equilibrium effects of land market restrictions on labor market : evidence from wages in Sri Lanka (anglais)
Taking advantage of a historical quasi-experiment in Sri Lanka, this paper provides evidence on the effects of land market restrictions on wages and its spatial pattern. The empirical specification is...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5461 Date du document: 1 octobre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran, M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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The extent of the market and stages of agricultural specialization (anglais)
This paper provides empirical evidence of nonlinearity in the relationship between crop specialization in a village economy and the extent of the market (size of the urban market) relevant for the village...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4534 Date du document: 1 février 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran, M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Marketing externalities and market development (anglais)
The authors use survey data from Bangladesh to present empirical evidence on externalities at household level sales decisions resulting from increasing returns to marketing. The increasing returns that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2839 Date du document: 31 mai 2002 Auteur: Emran, M. Shahe,Shilpi. Forhad