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We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running … regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation … legislation and adopt particular laws earlier in their history. We also find that specific types of regulation, including the …
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This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to a government policy called the “sent-down youth”...
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Plan, which implements greenhouse gas regulation of power plants under the Clean Air Act, allows substantial regulatory … regulation and rate-based regulation. However, under rate-based standards the carbon price must equal the social cost of carbon …
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We study the impact of mobile money transfers to a representative sample of low-income Ghanaians during the COVID-19 pandemic. The announcement of the upcoming transfers affects neither consumption, well-being, nor social distancing. Once disbursed, transfers increase food expenditure by 8%,...
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Ghana, we analyze the effects of a major participatory development program on participation in, leadership of and investment …
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a repeated gift-exchange experiment with university students in Ghana and the UK. The experiment is framed as an … that the share of selfish workers in Ghana is not substantially different from the UK or earlier experiments. We conclude …
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development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …
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Countries that have pursued distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered more macroeconomic volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect the causal effect of...
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The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
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, Ghana enacted the Intestate Succession (PNDC) Law 111, 1985 and 1998 Children's Act 560 to force men to provide for their …
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