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What determines firms' decisions to formalize? : evidence from rural Indonesia

McCulloch, Neil; Schulze, Günther G.; Voss, Janina - 2010

of them microenterprises, and analyze the effect of formalization on tax payments, corruption, access to credit and … revenue, taking into account the endogeneity of the formalization decision to such benefits and costs. We show, contrary to … most of the literature, that formalization reduces tax and corruption payments. The benefits of formalization, and …

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Historical legacies and urbanization : evidence from Chinese concessions

Jin, Gan; Schulze, Günther G. - 2024 - Electronically published: 16.1.2024

Can colonialism affect today's urban outcomes? This paper examines the long-run impact of Concessions - foreign-run enclaves established in the late nineteenth century inside Chinese cities by European settlers for residence and investment purposes. They soon became the new economic hubs of...

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Local economic growth and infant mortality

Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2021

We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother mixed effects we...

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Economic growth and pollution in different political regimes

Kammerlander, Andreas - 2022

4207 I examine the association between nighttime light luminosity and ten pollution measures (CO2, CO, NOx,SO2, NMVOC, NH3, BC, OC, PM10 and PM2.5) across different political regimes at a local level. Although the effects of the political system and economic growth on pollution have been widely...

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