Documents et rapports
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Gender bias in Intrahousehold allocation : evidence from an unintentional experiment (anglais)
We use data from a Brazilian social program to investigate the existence of gender bias in intrahousehold allocations of resources. The program makes cash transfers to mothers and pregnant women in poor...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94662 Date du document: 1 mai 2012 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Braido, Luis H.,Olinto,Pedro,Perrone, Helena
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Weakly relative poverty (anglais)
Prevailing measures of relative poverty are unchanged when all incomes grow or contract by the same proportion. This property stems from seemingly implausible assumptions about the disutility of relative...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94669 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Chen,Shaohua,Ravallion,Martin
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Multilateral debt relief through the eyes of financial markets (anglais)
This paper conducts an event study of the impact of multilateral debt relief initiatives announcements on the stock prices of South African companies with subsidiaries in countries benefited by these initiatives...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94668 Date du document: 1 novembre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Raddatz Kiefer,Claudio Enrique
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Global inequality of opportunity : how much of our income is determined by where we live? (anglais)
Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics over which they have (almost) no control: country of residence and income distribution within that country. Assume further that...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94672 Date du document: 1 octobre 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Milanovic,Branko L.
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Aggregate income shocks and infant mortality in the developing world (anglais)
Health and income are strongly correlated both within and across countries, yet the extent to which improvements in income have a causal effect on health status remains controversial. The authors investigate...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94667 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baird,Sarah Jane,Friedman,Jed,Schady,Norbert Rudiger
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Migration and economic mobility in Tanzania : evidence from a tracking survey (anglais)
This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania. Using a thirteen year panel survey, we find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94670 Date du document: 1 août 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beegle,Kathleen G.,Dercon,Stefan,De Weerdt,Joachim
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Export diversification : what’s behind the hump? (anglais)
The paper explores the evolution of export diversification patterns along the economic development path. Using a large database with 156 countries over 19 years at the HS6 level of disaggregation (4,991...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94665 Date du document: 1 mai 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Strauss-Kahn,Vanessa
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License to sell : the effect of business administration reform on entrepreneurial activity in Mexico (anglais)
This paper estimates the economic effects of a recent reform that simplified business entry regulation in Mexico. The reform was introduced in different municipalities at different points in time. Using...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94666 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam
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Good, bad, and ugly colonial activities : do they matter for economic development? (anglais)
Levels of development vary widely within countries in the Americas. We argue that part of this variation has its roots in the colonial era, when colonizers engaged in different economic activities in different...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 94663 Date du document: 29 septembre 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bruhn,Miriam,Gallego,Francisco Antonio
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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members : omnibus results from a migration lottery (anglais)
We use a migration lottery program to overcome the double selectivity problems posed by migration. We compare a wide range of outcomes for the remaining household members of Tongan emigrants with those...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 94664 Date du document: 30 mars 2010 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gibson,John David,Mckenzie,David J.,Stillman,Steven Eric
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Factor inputs and Japanese manufacturing trade structure (anglais)
The Japanese international trade structure in manufactured goods has been analyzed using cross-section regression analysis in which labor, capital, human capital, and energy are regressed on Japanese net...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP299 Date du document: 30 novembre 1983 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Urata,Shujiro
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Cross country demand and savings patterns (anglais)
Cross country demand and savings patterns are investigated in an application of the extended linear expenditure system (ELES). By fitting the ELES model to a short time series for 14 countries, using an...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: REP31 Date du document: 31 août 1975 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: LLUCH, C.,WILLIAMS, R.