There is considerable evidence that conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can have large impacts on school enrollment, including in very poor countries. However, little is known about what features...
Based on a two-round household panel survey conducted in Eastern Uganda, this study shows that the analysis of the inverse scale-productivity relationship (IR) is highly sensitive to how plot-level...
Extension is designed to enable lab-to-farm technology diffusion. Decentralized models assume that information flows from researchers to extension workers, and from extension agents to contact farmers...
Firms in many developing countries cite macroeconomic instability and political uncertainty as major constraints to their growth. The authors conduct a randomized experiment in post-revolution Egypt...
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...
In response to concerns over the vulnerability of the young in the wake of Indonesia’s 1997-1998 economic crises, the Government of Indonesia implemented a supplementary feeding program to support early ...
This paper estimates the impact of aggregate fluctuations on the time-varying trade policies of thirteen major emerging economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these World Trade Organization (WTO) member...
Using a database of 76,046 empirical economics papers published between 1985 and 2005, the authors report two associations. First, research output on a given country increases with the country's population ...
This paper investigates macro and micro correlates of aid-financed development project outcomes, using data from over 6,000 World Bank projects evaluated between 1983 and 2011. Country level 'macro' ...
Some argue that informal business owners are viable entrepreneurs who do not register due to complex regulation. Others claim that they are making a living while searching for a job. This paper suggests...
Currency risk is one of the two components of the total interest rate differential. Hard pegs, such as currency boards, are meant to reduce or even eliminate currency risk, thus reducing domestic interest ...
This paper presents a regression analysis of import and export shares of GDP for 14 commodity and service categories in 55 developing countries over the period 1964-82. Explanatory variables include...
This paper evaluates the impact of policy reforms on the productivity of Egypt's public sector enterprises. It finds an important asymmetry in the consequences of the reforms between the rapidly expanding ...
Data on 350 primary school age children from subsistence farm households in the Terai (southern plains) region of Nepal are analyzed to assess the relationship between nutritional status and school ...
This paper evaluates the impact of policy reforms on the productivity of Egypt's public sector enterprises. It finds an important asymmetry in the consequences of the reforms between the rapidly expanding ...
This paper uses data on the height, weight, age and grade level of over 3000 children in five quite different locations to measure the impact of the nutritional variables on the available measure of...
This paper first updates to 1980 the estimates of the Harberger inflation model for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Uruguay and shows that all the hypotheses of this model hold and the reaction...
This article is on the alarming pollution in Sao Paulo and how a selective approach must be adopted to reduce it. It recommends regulating industrial location rather than establishing policies that...
In a study of 43 developing countries in the 1973-78 period of external shocks, the author has shown that intercountry differences in the rate of economic growth are affected by differences in investment...
This paper develops and employs an estimating procedure to measure the net effect of economic policies in providing incentives for domestic market production and sales, as reflected through observed...