Documents et rapports
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The Intergenerational Mortality Tradeoff of COVID-19 Lockdown Policies (anglais)
In lower-income countries, the economic contractions that accompany lockdowns to contain the spread of COVID-19 can increase child mortality, counteracting the mortality reductions achieved by the lockdown...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9677 Date du document: 27 mai 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ma,Lin,Shapira,Gil,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.,Do,Quy-Toan,Friedman,Jed,Levchenko,Andrei A.
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Growth and Risk : A View from International Trade (anglais)
This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9296 Date du document: 23 juin 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Krishna,Pravin,Levchenko,Andrei A.,Maloney,William F.
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The Globalization of Refugee Flows (anglais)
This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9206 Date du document: 7 avril 2020 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Devictor,Xavier,Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.
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The price elasticity of African elephant poaching (anglais)
The objective of this paper is to provide an estimate of the elasticity of elephant poaching with respect to prices. Ivory being a storable commodity subjects its price to Hotelling's no-arbitrage condition...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8335 Date du document: 12 février 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.,Ma,Lin,Blanc,Julian,Milliken,Tom,Dublin,Holly
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Trade policy and redistribution when preferences are non-homothetic (anglais)
This paper compares redistribution through trade restrictions versus domestic lump-sum transfers. When preferences are non-homothetic, even domestic lump-sum transfers affect relative prices. Thus, contrary...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8005 Date du document: 14 mars 2017 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.
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World development report 2017 : the impact of trade openness on institutions (anglais)
The impact of opening to trade on economic institutions is likely to be multifaceted and depend crucially on country-specific circumstances. In the past decade an active body of research has studied this...
Type de document: Rapport sur le développement dans le monde Numéro du rapport: 112918 Date du document: 2 mai 2016 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Levchenko,Andrei A.
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Comparative advantage, international trade, and fertility (anglais)
We analyze theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. We build a model in which industries di↵er in the extent to which they use female relative...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 104043 Date du document: 11 mai 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.,Raddatz,Claudio
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Comparative advantage, international trade, and fertility (anglais)
This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female...
Numéro du rapport: WPS6930 Date du document: 1 juin 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.,Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique
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Trade insulation as social protection (anglais)
In a world with volatile food prices, countries have an incentive to shelter their populations from induced real income shocks. When some agents are net food producers while others are net consumers, there...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6448 Date du document: 1 mai 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.,Ravallion,Martin
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Engendering trade (anglais)
The authors analyze the interaction between a country's world market integration and its attitude towards gender roles. They discuss both theoretically and empirically how female empowerment is a source...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5777 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.,Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique
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Comparative advantage, demand for external finance, and financial development (anglais)
The differences in the levels of financial development between industrial and developing countries are large and persistent. Theoretical and empirical literature has argued that these differences are the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3889 Date du document: 1 avril 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.
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Trade, inequality, and the political economy of institutions (anglais)
The authors analyze the relationship between international trade and the quality of economic institutions such as contract enforcement, rule of law, or property rights. The literature on institutions has...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3836 Date du document: 1 février 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Do,Quy-Toan,Levchenko,Andrei A.