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This paper shows that the increased policy-selectivity of aid allocations observed in recent years provides recipient countries an incentive to improve policies. The paper estimates that a change in the World Banks Country Policy and Institutional Assessment policy index from 1.5 to 2 for a...
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"This paper relies on a simple framework to understand the gender wage gap in Macedonia, and simulates how the gender … Macedonia could contribute to decrease the gender wage gap by up to 23 percent. Nevertheless, in order to significantly improve …
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structural model estimated on quarterly data for Macedonia and Slovakia over 1995-2007. The success of macroeconomic … structural shocks. By benchmarking the estimated economic rigidities and structural shocks faced by Macedonia to those faced by … Slovakia, the authors find that Macedonia has relatively weaker transmission mechanisms of monetary policy, higher output …
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reservation and market wages in North Macedonia. The study makes use of recently collected information on reservation wages in the …
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This article documents a positive and sizable correlation between the location of historical Christian missions and the allocation of present-day World Bank aid at the grid-cell level in Africa. The correlation is robust to an extensive set of geographical and historical control variables that...
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