Documents et rapports
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Public Primary School Expansion, Gender-Based Crowding Out, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility (anglais)
From 1965 to 1985, the number of schools doubled in developing countries, but little is known about their impacts on intergenerational educational mobility. This paper studies the effects of 61,000 public...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10418 Date du document: 21 avril 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahsan,Md. Nazmul,Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Growing Up Together : Sibling Correlation, Parental Influence, and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Developing Countries (anglais)
This paper presents credible and comparable evidence on intergenerational educational mobility in 53 developing countries using sibling correlation as a measure, and data from 230 waves of Demographic...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10285 Date du document: 25 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahsan,Md. Nazmul,Emran,M. Shahe,Jiang,Hanchen,Han,Qingyang,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Does Market Integration Increase Rural Land Inequality ? Evidence from India (anglais)
Investments in transport infrastructure lower trade costs and lead to integration of villages with urban markets. Does spatial market integration increase land inequality in rural areas? Theoretical analysis...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10286 Date du document: 25 janvier 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Berg,Claudia N.,Blankespoor,Brian,Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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The Rural-Urban Divide and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in a Developing Country : Theory and Evidence from Indonesia (anglais)
This paper provides an analysis of the rural-urban divide in intergenerational educational mobility in Indonesia with two distinguishing features. First, the estimating equations are derived from theory...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9464 Date du document: 3 novembre 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ahsan,Md Nazmul,Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Occupational Dualism and Intergenerational Educational Mobility in the Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India (anglais)
This paper extends the Becker-Tomes model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9316 Date du document: 13 juillet 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Ferreira,Francisco H. G.,Jiang,Yajing,Sun,Yan
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Gender Bias and Intergenerational Educational Mobility : Theory and Evidence from China and India (anglais)
This paper incorporates gender bias against girls in the family, school and labor market in a model of intergenerational persistence in schooling where parents self-finance children's education because...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9250 Date du document: 18 mai 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Jiang,Hanchen,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Temporary Trade Shocks, Spatial Reallocation, and Persistence in Developing Countries : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in West Africa (anglais)
In response to rising inequality following decades of trade liberalization, many countries are adopting trade restrictions. Can temporary trade restrictions have long-lasting effects on the spatial distribution...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8962 Date du document: 6 août 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Coulombe,Harold,Blankespoor,Brian
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Transport costs, comparative advantage, and agricultural development : evidence from Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh (anglais)
This paper studies the effects of a large reduction in transport costs on agricultural development in a developing country, with a focus on the interactions among the comparative advantage and transport...
Numéro du rapport: WPS8509 Date du document: 9 juillet 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blankespoor,Brian,Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Xu,Lu - DECEE
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Bridge to bigpush or backwash ? market integration, reallocation, and productivity effects of Jamuna bridge in Bangladesh (anglais)
This paper uses a quasi-experimental study of a major bridge construction in Bangladesh to understand the effects of a large reduction in trade costs on the pattern of structural change and agricultural...
Numéro du rapport: WPS8508 Date du document: 9 juillet 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Blankespoor,Brian,Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Xu,Lu - DECEE
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Estimating intergenerational mobility with incomplete data : coresidency and truncation bias in rank-based relative and absolute mobility measures (anglais)
The rank-based measures of intergenerational mobility have become increasingly popular in economics literature. Recent evidence shows that rank-based measures are less affected by measurement error and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8414 Date du document: 18 avril 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Beyond dualism : agricultural productivity, small towns, and structural change in Bangladesh (anglais)
This paper uses a framework that goes beyond rural-urban dualism and highlights the role of small town economy in understanding structural change in a developing country. It provides a theoretical and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8087 Date du document: 6 juin 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Do consumers benefit from supply chain intermediaries ? evidence from a policy experiment in the edible oils market in Bangladesh (anglais)
Commodity traders are often the focus of popular resentment. Food price hikes in 2007-2008 resulted in protests and food riots, and spurred governments to regulate traders. In March 2011, Government of...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7745 Date du document: 18 juillet 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Mookherjee,Dilip,Shilpi,Forhad J.,Uddin,M. Helal
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When measure matters: coresidency, truncation bias, and intergenerational mobility in developing countries (anglais)
Biases from truncation caused by coresidency restriction have been a challenge for research on intergenerational mobility. Estimates of intergenerational schooling persistence from two data sets show that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7608 Date du document: 18 mars 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Greene,William,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Do land market restrictions hinder structural change in a rural economy ? evidence from Sri Lanka (anglais)
This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on structural change from agriculture to non-farm in a rural economy. This paper develops a theoretical model that focuses on higher migration...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7525 Date du document: 22 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Land market restrictions, women's labor force participation, and wages in a rural economy (anglais)
This paper analyzes the effects of land market restrictions on the rural labor market outcomes for women. The existing literature emphasizes two mechanisms through which land restrictions can affect the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7524 Date du document: 22 décembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Shilpi,Forhad J.
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Are the children of uneducated farmers doubly disadvantaged ? farm, nonfarm and intergenerational educational mobility in rural China (anglais)
This paper relaxes the single-factor model of intergenerational educational mobility and analyzes heterogeneous effects of family background on children’s education in villages, with a focus on the role...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7459 Date du document: 26 octobre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Emran,M. Shahe,Sun,Yan - GSP05