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Publikováno v:
Journal of Development Economics. 162:103051
Publikováno v:
Journal of African Economies. 29:454-474
The 2014-15 Ebola epidemic took a devastating human and economic toll on three West African countries, of which Liberia was perhaps the hardest hit. The pathways through which the crisis affected economic activity in these largely agrarian societies
Autor:
Xavier Gine, Hanan G. Jacoby
Publikováno v:
Quantitative Economics. 11:399-435
To quantify contracting distortions in a real‐world market, we develop and structurally estimate a model of contracting under payoff uncertainty in the south Indian groundwater economy. Uncertainty arises from unpredictable fluctuations in groundwa
Widespread adoption of efficient irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been proposed as a means of limiting groundwater overexploitation, especially in the intensively farmed and water-stressed South Asia region. This paper reports
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https://doi.org/10.1596/35662
https://doi.org/10.1596/35662
Autor:
Hanan G. Jacoby, Quy-Toan Do
Utilities the world over grapple with how to set prices to recover fixed costs. This paper considers optimal utility provision and pricing when consumers form habits without being aware of it. Data from a multi-year pricing experiment among nearly 15
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https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9207
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9207
Autor:
Deon Filmer, Susmita Dasgupta, Erhan Artuc, Norman V. Loayza, Robert Cull, Leora Klapper, Roberto N. Fattal Jaef, Michael Woolcock, Sergio L. Schmukler, Hiau Looi Kee, Adam Wagstaff, Dean Jolliffe, David McKenzie, Bob Rijkers, Berk Ozler, Michael Toman, Hanan G. Jacoby, Vijayendra Rao, Xavier Gine, Aart Kraay
What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David Malpass to the staff of the Development Resear
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https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9133
https://doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-9133
Autor:
Hanan G. Jacoby, Basab Dasgupta
Publikováno v:
IZA Journal of Development and Migration, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-26 (2018)
Changing Wage Structure in India in the Post-Reform Era: 1993–2011
Changing Wage Structure in India in the Post-Reform Era: 1993–2011
This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period since 1993. To investigate the factors underlying these changes, a supply-demand framework is applied at the level of the Indian sta
Publikováno v:
Journal of Public Economics. 202:104499
Does decentralizing the allocation of public resources reduce rent-seeking and improve equity? We study a governance reform in Pakistan’s vast Indus Basin irrigation system, where corruption is endemic. Using canal discharge measurements across Pun