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Does development aid increase military expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016
ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid …The diversion of development aid to the recipient's military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …
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Does development aid increase military expenditure?
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2016 - This version: September 2016
ineffective in promoting economic growth and development. Previous studies have not derived the causal effects of development aid …The diversion of development aid to the recipient’s military may be one explanation why aid is often found to be … on military expenditure. Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542201
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Does development aid increase military expenditure
Langlotz, Sarah; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
Using a new instrumental variable strategy, we examine whether bilateral development aid increases military expenditure … accounting for outliers, our results do not suggest that development aid affects military expenditure in the full sample. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019746
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Chapter 59 Evaluating Anti-Poverty Programs
Ravallion, Martin - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3787-3846). 2007
The chapter critically reviews the methods available for the ex post counterfactual analysis of programs that are assigned exclusively to individuals, households or locations. The emphasis is on the problems encountered in applying these methods to anti-poverty programs in developing countries,...
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Foreign aid and domestic absorption
Temple, Jonathan; Van de Sijpe, Nicolas - 2014
We introduce a new "supply-push" instrument for foreign aid, to be used together with an instrumental variable estimator that filters out unobserved common factors. We use this instrument to study the effects of aid on macroeconomic ratios, and especially the ratios of consumption, investment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417985
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorner, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794029
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592197
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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018
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Foreign Aid and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : An Instrumental Variables Approach
Magesan, Arvind - 2016
There is little consensus on the capacity for foreign aid to cause economic growth in developing countries. This is due … Human Rights Treaties at the UN to identify an average causal effect of aid on growth. Our approach allows for heterogeneous … effects of aid on growth across recipients for unobservable reasons, and we thus identify a Local Average Treatment Effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005040