Showing papers in "Journal of Development Economics in 2010"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of the political budget cycle in which incumbents try to influence voters by changing the composition of government spending, rather than overall spending or revenues.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors formalize a mechanism that emphasizes the role of local financial markets in enabling FDI to promote growth through backward linkages, and quantify the response of growth to FDI and show that an increase in the share of FDI leads to higher additional growth in financially developed economies relative to financially under-developed ones.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the impact of market reforms, especially the reforms that followed Deng Xiaoping's “South Trip” in 1992 those that resulted from serious hardening of budget constraints of state enterprises around 1997.

TL;DR: In this paper, a field experiment in Tanzania tested eight alternative methods to measure household consumption on a sample of 4,000 households and found significant differences between consumption reported by the benchmark personal diary and other diary and recall formats.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of natural resources in determining corruption is explored in the context of oil discovery announcements in Sao Tome and Principe (1997-1999) and Cape Verde (1999-2005).

TL;DR: In this paper, a large cross-country, firm level database containing 5,000 firms in 9 developing and emerging economies was used to study how financial factors affect both firms' export decisions and the amount exported by firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there is no evidence that the inflation targeting regime (IT) improves economic performance as measured by the behavior of inflation and output growth in developing countries.

TL;DR: The authors explored how US bilateral economic aid has changed over time, focusing on how the recent era, in which the War on Terror has played a prominent role in the Bush administration's aid policy, differs from previous eras.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the causes and consequences of the remarkable rise of the VAT and found that the adoption of a VAT can reduce the marginal cost of public funds if and only if it also leads an optimizing government to increase the tax ratio.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the remittance behavior of immigrants and how it relates to temporary versus permanent migration plans, using a unique data source that provides unusual detail on remittances and return plans, and follows the same household over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of today's national export promotion agencies (EPAs) and their strategies, based on new survey data covering 103 developing and developed countries, is studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of aggregate income shocks on infant mortality in India and investigated likely mechanisms, and found that exposure to poor conditions in the fetal and neonatal period appears to have a larger effect on infants than similar exposure in the post-neonatal period.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of property rights protection on corporate RD were examined and it was found that government services and helping hand are conducive to corporate RD and government ownership of firms and direct appointment of CEOs are negatively associated with corporate R&D activities.

TL;DR: This paper developed a two-sector matching model that incorporates the main features of Latin American labor markets and showed that the tradeoff between lower informal employment and higher unemployment rates is not present when one looks at policies that aim at reducing the costs of being formal, as opposed to policies that simply increase the cost of being informal.

TL;DR: The authors analyzed the effect of democracy on trade by augmenting the gravity equation with democracy using a rich panel data set and controlling for the endogeneity of democracy, finding empirical evidence consistent with the hypothesis that democracy fosters trade.

TL;DR: In this paper, a Guatemalan micro-finance lender gradually started using a credit bureau across its branches without letting borrowers know about it, and ran a large randomized credit information course that described the existence and workings of the bureau to the clients of this lender.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that for as low a cost as 3Â cents per child per school day the scheme reduced the daily protein deficiency of a primary school student by 100%, the calorie deficiency by almost 30% and the daily iron deficiency by nearly 10%.

TL;DR: This article developed a model of North-South trade with multinational firms and economic growth in order to analyze formally the effects of stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in developing countries.

TL;DR: This article developed a simple model which suggests the possibility of an inverted-U relationship between land holdings and child labor and found that the turning point beyond which more land leads to a decline in child labor occurs around 4 ac of land per household.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the distributional impacts of trade promotion activities performing efficient semiparametric quantile treatment effect estimation on assistance, total sales, and highly disaggregated export data for the whole population of Chilean exporters over the 2002-2006 period.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the impact of market and supplier access on wage disparities across Brazilian states, incorporating the control for individual characteristics into the new economic geography methodology, and find a strong correlation between market access and wage differentials.

TL;DR: The authors explored data on income quintiles derived from the World Income Inequality Database for 88 developing countries and found that foreign aid and democracy in conjunction are associated with a higher share of income held by the upper quintile.

TL;DR: The 2010 version of the Human Development Index (HDI) as discussed by the authors relaxes its past assumption of perfect substitutability between its three components, reducing its implicit weight on longevity in poor countries relative to rich ones.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a recently developed econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used over half a century of R&D data for India to test whether the second-generation endogenous growth theories are consistent with India's growth experience.

TL;DR: This paper developed a flexible model with two sectors: a formal salaried (tradable) sector that may be affected by wage rigidities, and an informal (non tradable) self-employment sector faced with liquidity constraints to entry.

TL;DR: This article found that displaced Bosnians are less likely to be working relative to the people who stayed, and that displaced men experience higher unemployment levels, and displaced women are more likely to drop out of the labor force.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors build a model of competition through fundraising between horizontally differentiated NGOs and show that if the market size is endogenous and NGOs cooperate in attracting new donors, fundraising levels decrease with the number of NGOs and the free-entry equilibrium number of organizations is smaller than the one that maximizes the welfare of donors and beneficiaries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of starting to invest in less advanced countries compared with investing in more-advanced countries using a difference-in-difference approach, using a propensity score method to select national firms that ex post did not take the investment decisions that they study even though ex ante they would have been equally likely to.

TL;DR: This article examined the role of migration as an influence on income ratios between pairs of provinces and found that the impact of migration on inequality can be either negative or positive, depending on the province and sector.