Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster … macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises … interdependencies between the two types of crises, feedbacks between the two types of reform, the use of alternative measures of …

Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental … income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … observed in market economies. Early in transition, faster reform is associated with larger contributions from reallocation, but …

We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries … studies and find that the macroeconomic effects of reform (when measured objectively) tend to be larger and more precisely …

local crime rates. We assess the effects of a recent reform in California that caused a sharp and permanent reduction in the … state's incarceration rate. We exploit the large variation across California counties in the effect of this reform on county …

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America?s Families), this paper …