US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited with helping to stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these...
This paper examines the relationship between the destination of exports and the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. Both ordinary least squares...
The study of the impact of providing school report cards with test scores on subsequent test scores, prices, and enrollment in markets with multiple public and private providers. A randomly selected half...
Two identical firms who start exporting in different months, one each in January and December, will report dramatically different exports for the first calendar year. This partial-year effect biases down...
Almost all firms in developing countries have fewer than ten workers, with a modal size of one. Are there potential high-growth entrepreneurs, and can public policy help identify them and facilitate their...
Hayek (1945) argues that local information is key to understanding the efficiency of alternative economic systems and whether production should be centralized or decentralized. The Chinese experience of...
Emerging evidence demonstrates migration may be used by individuals in the southern hemisphere to adapt to environmental changes. The authors build upon recent work in the region using a similar triple...
In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India implemented a patent reform for pharmaceuticals that was intended to comply with the 1995 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property...
The authors document the correlation between the workplace diversity of bureaucracies and public services delivered. The authors do so in the context of the federal civil service in Nigeria, the most important...
Many subjects in lab experiments show considerable risk aversion in small-stakes gambles. This is counter to the predictions of expected utility theory for any reasonable degree of risk aversion but is...
Fundamental questions about how resources are allocated within the family remain unresolved. Because family decision making is a repeated game and there is caring, it is generally posited that the marriage...
The first of these three papers examines the quality of schooling, paticularly on the misleading focus on quantity alone. It extends the Mincerian framework to incorporate school quality as well as quantity...
The objective in this note is to show the change in wage dispersion in response to increases in the relative supply of educated workers in two low-income countries. We also measure the relative contributions...
This discussion is confined to the urban labor markets in developing countries and to manual workers. It outlines the process by which the urban market for workers of low skill tends to develop a sector...
The available evidence indicates that, in aggregate, the growth in world food production over the past two decades has more than kept pace with the growth in population. This paper analyzes recent trends...
The basic infant industry argument maintains that: the cost of a new activity is initially high; it does not pay any individual to enter an infant industry at free trade prices; if developed, the industry...
One of the often noted features of less-developed agrarian economies is the existence of interlinkages among the land, labor, credit, and product markets. The landlord is often the supplier of credit;...
This paper examines the major instruments for administrative regulation of imports, the antidumping and countervailing duty procedures, or less-than-fair value cases, and the escape clause mechanism. It...
The 1970s have witnessed significant changes in the trade policies and strategies of many LDCs. In the 1950s and 1960s most of them adhered to policies of import substitution behind highly restrictive...
Structuralist methodology and development policy are examined and compared to other major development policy approaches. The structuralist approach focuses on various types of structural disequilibria...