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Showing papers in "Journal of Comparative Economics in 2021"


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TL;DR: This article identified 49 cases of generalized reform in a dataset that spans 141 countries from 1970 to 2015 and found that the average treatment effect associated with these reforms is positive, sizeable, and significant over 5-and 10-year windows.

41 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a quasi-natural experiment of reciprocal imposition of trade sanctions by Russia and the EU since 2014 and show that the Russian sanctions imposed on European and American food imports resulted in about an 8 times stronger decline in trade flows than those imposed by the EU and the US on exports of extraction equipment.

38 citations


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TL;DR: This paper used repeated cross-sectional survey data to analyze whether China's growing economic engagement in Latin America has an effect on citizens' perceptions of China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period.

24 citations


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TL;DR: This paper argued that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and, according to some measures, even declining, and provided empirical foundations for it.

22 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the financial performance of state-owned enterprises in relation to non-commercial goals and reveal that SOEs underperform as compared to their privately owned counterparts when they operate in those markets that have lower prices.

18 citations


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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors argue that shadow banking is not a new phenomenon; it has always been a part of China's financial system since the 1980s, and arose from the need to get around various lending restrictions imposed by the central government on banks.

16 citations


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TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between compositional inequality (how the shares of capital and labor income vary along income distribution) and inter-personal income inequality, and showed that higher compositional inequalities are associated with higher interpersonal inequalities.

16 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors used large linked employer-employee data to analyze wage inequality patterns in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries between 2002 and 2014, and found that, unlike in many other advanced economies, wage inequality levels have decreased in almost all CEE countries.

15 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of high-speed railway (HSR) technology on the local impacts of foreign technology transfer and found that technology transfer generates significant localized spillovers to nearby firms not only in terms of more patents, but also as higher productivity and revenue growth.

15 citations


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TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined employment-related gender discrimination during the initial stages of a hiring process and found that female applicants are less likely to be invited by hiring firms to on-site interviews as compared with their male counterparts.

14 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of institutional convergence clusters using Phillips and Sul's (2007, 2009) log t-test over the period 2002 to 2018 is analyzed. And the authors find that institutional convergence clubs are formed mainly on the basis of geographic region; in particular, the northwest-southeast divide.

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TL;DR: The authors found that having an additional CC member in a prefecture reduces the excess death of that prefecture by 46,500, accounting for 2.3 percentage points in the death rate when evaluated at the mean.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on what happens to the quality of judicial institutions and political corruption around coup attempts and other types of regime transitions and explore whether the incumbent regime influences the effect of coup attempts on institutional change.

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TL;DR: This article explored a new panel dataset (1992-2016) of Swiss referenda on the enfranchisement of non-citizens, focusing on the size and composition of the foreign population and the institutional context.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use a newly assembled indicator of corruption from Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) to examine the effects of corruption on economic growth and find that corruption interacts with political regime type, giving rise to heterogeneous effects.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the anthropometric development of 47 countries was studied and it was found that Africans lost their stature upon colonization, even after controlling for a number of different variables and potential sample selectivity bias issues.

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TL;DR: This article used a difference-in-differences method on a panel of 115 developing countries from 1970 to 2014 to find that democratic transitions do not affect foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows, on average.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the widespread belief that right-wing governments tend to promote economic freedom while left-wing ones prefer more control over the economy using annual data for 106 countries over the period 1975-2015 and a two-step GMM estimator.

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TL;DR: The authors developed a formal model to reconcile this tension and demonstrate that autocratic incumbents can become more repressive with higher levels of transfers and either experience civil conflict or democratize at lower levels of transfer.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use an unbalanced panel dataset comprised from 34 OECD countries from 1981 to 2019, and a Least Squares Dummy Variable Correction method as well as a series of robustness tests including different methods of analysis, adding control variables and breaking the overall period into subperiods.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the distributional effects of a centralisation reform of China's political hierarchy on regional urbanization were studied. But the authors focused on the distribution of urban primacy and a more marked core-periphery structure at the prefecture level.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors use individual-level data from 28 post-communist countries to demonstrate that bribery for public services worsens self-assessed health, and also find that bribery lowers the quality of services received.

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TL;DR: This paper showed that individuals exposed to life under state socialism have formed and persistently hold different attitudes toward immigration, and that the influence of state socialism on attitudes towards immigration can be traced back to a longer-term deterioration in trust.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that successful implementation of pro-market policies and institutions requires that large parts of the population know how to use the resulting freedom in a way that can bring long term benefits.

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TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors found that local courts fail to disclose more than 60% of their opinions in corporate litigation cases, measured against a baseline of publicly listed firms' disclosure of their litigation, as required and enforced by the securities regulations.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a cross-country panel was constructed to explore the determinants of the gender gap in competitive chess across countries by controlling for main economic development indicators and several measures of gender equality.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a new empirical regularity specific to developing countries: upswings are associated with increases in current primary expenditures only, while public investment falls and current spending remains acyclical during downturns.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the legacy effect and transmission mechanisms of historical conflicts on contemporary trade were studied using new data on the regional dispersion of civilian deaths due to massacres in the Sino-Japanese war.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the impact of labor regulations on firm outcomes and explore their differential effects on exporters, finding that producers in states with pro-worker labor regulations tend to replace labor with capital.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used newly collected sentencing data on seven additional states and found substantial heterogeneity in the strength of sentencing cycles, which was explained by cross-state differences in informal norm of whether incumbent judges get challenged in judicial elections.