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  • Minimum Wage Policy and Poverty in Indonesia (English)

    This paper investigates whether the minimum wage policy significantly reduced poverty in Java Island, Indonesia, between 2002 and 2014. Its identification strategy exploits variation in minimum wages over...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 197040 Document Date: May 15, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Merdikawati, Nurina,Al Izzati, Ridho

  • Free Trade and Subnational Development : Economic Activity and Human Welfare (English)

    This paper delves into the subnational relationship between free trade agreements (FTAs) and human development worldwide. Utilizing a difference-in-differences and an event-study approach with high-spatial-resolution...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 197037 Document Date: May 9, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cruzatti C, John

  • Better Roads, Better Off? : Evidence on Upgrading Roads in Tanzania (English)

    Spatial isolation is considered to be one of the main determinants of poverty. Therefore, many transport investments are undertaken with the stated objective of poverty reduction. This paper evaluates...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 197038 Document Date: April 17, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Dumas, Christelle,Játiva, Ximena

  • Do Factory Jobs Improve Welfare? : Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia (English)

    This study explores the impact of a light-touch job-facilitation intervention that supported young female job seekers during the application process for factory work in a newly constructed industrial park...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 197045 Document Date: April 3, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Girum Abebe Tefera,Niklas Buehren,Markus Goldstein

  • Measuring the Size of the Third Pillar : A Global Dataset (English)

    Balancing the state and the market, the third pillar (i.e., any association of people that is neither public nor private) is a key sector in society. In contrast to the first two pillars (the public sector...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 194383 Document Date: March 22, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fritz Schiltz,Kelsey J. MacKay,Philippe Vandekerckhove

  • The Temptation of Social Networks under Job Search Frictions (English)

    This paper presents descriptive evidence that although social networks help find jobs, the jobs found through social networks tend to be mismatched. The paper uses nationally representative matched employer-employee...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 197042 Document Date: March 14, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Matsuda, Norihiko,Shinsaku Nomura

  • Infrastructure and Structural Change in Africa (English)

    Past investments in electricity, Internet, and road infrastructure, in isolation and bundled, have contributed to structural transformation and economic development in Africa. Using new data on the expansion...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 192813 Document Date: March 8, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Matias Herrera Dappe,Mathilde Lebrand

  • Village Fairness Norms and Land-Rental Markets (English)

    This paper documents the role of village fairness norms in land markets. A strong and robust relationship is established between experimentally elicited village-level fairness norms and land-rental rates...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 194380 Document Date: March 6, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kwabena Krah,Annemie Maertens,Wezi Mhango,Hope Michelson,Vesall Nourani

  • Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor (English)

    Does higher import competition increase formalization and aggregate productivity? Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation from Chinese imports, we provide empirical causal evidence that higher imports...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 194378 Document Date: February 28, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Pavel Chakraborty,Rahul Singh,Vidhya Soundararajan

  • Deep Trade Agreements and Firm Ownership in GVCs (English)

    This paper focuses on the effect of preferential trade agreements and their depth on firm-to-firm ownership, in particular, along global value chains. It measures shareholder–affiliate ownership links...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 194376 Document Date: February 26, 2024 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Peter H. Egger,Gerard Masllorens