Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP)

CDEP-CGEG Working Papers are sponsored jointly by the Center for Development Economics and Policy (CDEP) and the Center on Global Economic Governance (CGEG), and are circulated to promote discussion and comment. They represent the views of their authors and not the official views of CDEP or CGEG.

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Working Papers

075 Corruption Environment and Investment in Private Firms

Jan Hanousek, Anastasiya Shamshur, Jan Svejnar, and Jiri Tresl, March 2019

074 Pupil Absenteeism, Measurement, and Menstruation: Evidence from Western Kenya

Anja Benshaul-Tolonen, Garazi Zulaika, Elizabeth Nyothach, Clifford Oduor, Linda Mason, David Obor, Kelly T. Alexander, Kayla F. Laserson, and Penelope A. Phillips-Howard, March 2019

073 Glyphosate Use in Agriculture and Birth Outcomes of Surrounding Populations

Mateus Dias, Rudi Rocha, and Rodrigo R. Soares, February 2019

072 Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Resturcuting and Expansion in Brazil

Sonia Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha, and Rodrigo R. Soares, January 2019

071 Exploring the wide dispersion in productivity among European firms

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, and Christoph Weiss, December 2018

070 The Effect of Education on Mortality and Health: Evidence from a Schooling Expansion in Romania

Ofer Malamud, Andreea Mitrut, and Cristian Pop-Eleches, December 2018

069 Parental Monitoring and Children's Internet Use: The Role of information, Control, and Cues

Francisco Gallego, Ofer Malamud, and Cristian Pop-Eleches, December 2018

068 The Effect of Fertility on Mothers' Labor Supply over the Last Two Centuries

Daniel Aaronson, Rajeev Dehejia, Andrew Jordan, Cristian Pop-Eleches, Cyrus Samii, and Karl Schulze, December 2018

067 From Local to Global: External Validity in a Fertility Natural Experiment

Rajeev Dehejia, Cristian Pop-Eleches, and Cyrus Samii, December 2018

066 Zombie Firms and Political Influence on Bank Lending in China

Quiying Qu, November 2018

065 Within but Without: Involuntary Displacement and Economic Development

Alice Tianbo Zhang, October 2018

064 Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data

Judith A. Frias, David S. Kaplan, Eric Verhoogen, and David Alfaro-Serrano, September 2018

063 Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies: Theory and Evidence from an Energy Saving Program

Francisco Costa and Francois Gerard, June 2018

062 Endogenous Gender Norms: Evidence from Africa's Gold Mining Industry

Anja Tolonen, May 2018

061 Corporate Profit Taxes, Captial Expediture and Real Wages: The analytics behind a contentious debate

Willem H. Buiter and Anne C. Sibert, May 2018

060 Are Rushed Privatizations Substandard? Analyzing Firm-level Privatization under Fiscal Pressure

Jan Hagemejer, Jan Svejnar, and Joanna Tyrowicz, May 2018

059 Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn, April 2018

058 Competition and the Racial Wage Gap: Testing Becker's Model of Employer Discrimination

Guilherme Hirata and Rodrigo R. Soares, April 2018

057 Local Industrial Shocks and Infant Mortality

Anja Tolonen, April 2018

056 Time vs. State in Insurance: Experimental Evidence from Contract Farming in Kenya

Lorenzo Casaburi and Jack Willis, April 2018

055 Election by Community Consensus: Effects on Political Selection and Governance

Ashna Arora, April 2018

054 Harmattan Winds, Disease and Gender Gaps in Human Capital Investment

Belinda Archibong and Francis Annan, April 2018

053 How important are beliefs about gender differences in math ability? Transmission across generations and impacts on child outcomes

Alex Eble and Feng Hu, April 2018

052 An Index of Regulatory Practices for Financial Inclusion in Latin America: Enablers, Promoters and Preventers

Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Lucia Pacheco, March 2018

051 Resource Misallocation in European Firms: The Role of Constraints, Firm Charcteristics and Managerial Decisions

Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Debora Revoltella, Jan Svejnar, and Christoph T. Weiss, March 2018

050 Selection on Ability and the Early Career Growth in the Gender Wage Gap

Eduardo Fraga, Gustavo Gonzaga, and Rodrigo R. Soares, February 2018

049 Vertical Integration, Supplier Behavior, and Quality Upgrading among Exporters

Christopher Hansman, Jonas Hjort, Gianmarco Leon, and Matthieu Teachout, February 2018

048 Individuals and Organizations as Sources of State Effectiveness, and Consequences for Policy Design

Michael Carlos Best, Jonas Hjort, and David Szakonyi, January 2018

047 The Effect of Dust Storms on Child Health in West Africa

Timothy Foreman, January 2018

046 Juvenile Crime and Anticipated Punishment

Ashna Arora, January 2018

045 A Research-Based Ranking of Public Policy Schools

Elliott Ash and Miguel Urquiola, January 2018

044 Does primary school duration matter? Evaluating the consequences of a large Chinese policy experiment

Alex Eble and Feng Hu, December 2017

043 Stereotypes, Role Models, and the Formation of Beliefs

Alex Eble and Feng Hu, December 2017

042 The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi

Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, and Thomas T. Kim, August 2017

041 The Buck Stops Where? Federalism, Uncertainty, and Investment in the Brazilian Water and Sanitation Sector

Evan Plous Kresch, August 2017

040 Formal Sector Incentives and Informality

Ama Baafra Abeberese and Ritam Chaurey, August 2017

039 On the Quantity and Quality of Girls: New Evidence on Abortion, Fertility, and Parental Investments

S Anukriti, Sonia Bhalotra, and Hiu Tam, August 2017

038 Expanding Global Liquidity Insurance: Myths and Realities of the IMF's Precautionary Credit Lines

Nancy Birdsall, Liliana Rojas-Suarez, and Anna Diofasi, June 2017

037 The Fallacy of the Fiscal Theory of the Price Level - Once More

Willem H. Buiter, March 2017