Worms at work: Long-run impacts of a child health investment
Abstract: This study estimates long-run impacts of a child health investment, exploiting community-wide experimental variation in school-based deworming.
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Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms
Working Paper on "Location Fundamentals, Agglomeration Economies, and the Geography of Multinational Firms".
Disruptive Technologies and their Implications for Economic Policy: Some Preliminary Observations
Working paper by Danny Leipziger & Victoria Dodev (George Washington University)
Systemic and Idiosyncratic Sovereign Debt Crises
The theoretical literature on sovereign defaults has focused on adverse shocks to debtors’ economies, suggesting that defaults are of an idiosyncratic nature. Still, sovereign debt crises are also of...
The Value of Reputation in Trade: Evidence from Alibaba
by Maggie X. Chen (George Washington University) & Min Wu (George Washington University)
Political economy theory expects politicians to use budget decits to engineer an election-timed boom, known as the political business cycle.
Testing the Association between Foreclosure and Nearby House Values: Can Differences Deceive?
Foreclosure externalities, in which the number of recent foreclosures proximate to a housing unit depress its sales price, are well accepted in the literature.
Partisan Technocratic Cycles in Latin America
Given their powerful position in presidential cabinets, technocrats are an important transmission mechanism for explaining policy choices in Latin America,
Globalization in the Periphery: Monetary Policy: What is Gained, What is Lost
There is a long-standing debate on the benefits and drawbacks of financial globalization. Among the benefits,
The Cost of Greening Stimulus: A Dynamic Discrete Choice Analysis of Vehicle Scrappage Programs
During the recent economic crisis, many countries have adopted stimulus programs designed to achieve two goals: to stimulate economic activity in lagging