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Delinking Land Rights from Land Use: Certification and Migration in Mexico
, 2015 In many developing countries property rights over rural land are maintained through continuous personal use instead of by land titles. We show that removing the link between land use and land rights through the issuance of ownership certificates can ...
A. Janvry +3 more
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Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Insights from Economic Research
Social Science Research NetworkIntimate partner violence (IPV) is a pervasive global issue, with approximately one in three women experiencing IPV during her lifetime. IPV prevalence is higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), and costs of IPV are also considerably larger ...
M. Shah, Lydia Barski
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The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content ( propaganda) relative to commercial ...
Bei Qin, David Strömberg, Yanhui Wu
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Political Turnover, Bureaucratic Turnover, and the Quality of Public Services
The American Economic Review, 2017 We study how political turnover in mayoral elections in Brazil affects public service provision by local governments. Exploiting a regression discontinuity design for close elections, we find that municipalities with a new party in office experience ...
M. Akhtari, Diana B. Moreira, L. Trucco
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Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence From India
Social Science Research NetworkDeveloping countries have increasingly decentralized power to local governments. This paper studies the implications of a central element of decentralization (polity size) using population-based discontinuities that determine local government boundaries ...
Veda Narasimhan, Jeffrey Weaver
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The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development
, 2011 Chenggang Xu
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The Value of Democracy: Evidence from Road Building in Kenya
, 2015 R. Burgess +4 more
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Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance during Pregnancy
, 2011 D. Almond, B. Mazumder
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Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study
, 2012 J. Esteban, Laura Mayoral, Debraj Ray
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