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Making the next billion demand access: the local content effect of google.co.za in Setswana
Recent attempts to connect the current ‘next billion’ to the Internet in places such as sub-Saharan Africa have not met expectations. In places where Internet infrastructure has come online and prices have gone down, the expected consequent increase in uptake was not observed. I develop a framework that incorporates language in the the two-sided markets framework, viewing differences...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 24/08/2016
The quest to lower high remittance costs to Africa: a brief review of the use of mobile banking and bitcoins
The paper reviews the latest technological tools that arguably can contribute to reducing the excessively high costs of remittance transactions in Africa. Indeed, despite huge remittance inflows to and within the continent, Africa is the most expensive destination to send money to. As remittances have become more important than Overseas Development Assistance and Foreign Direct...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 15/03/2016
Fire-sale FDI or business as usual?
Motivated by a set of stylized facts, we develop a model of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As;) to study foreign direct investment (FDI) in emerging markets. We compare acquisitions undertaken during financial crises – so called fire-sale FDI –with acquisitions made during non-crisis periods to examine whether the outcomes differ in the ways predicted by the model....
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 11/03/2016
Retombées économiques de l'aide publique au développement en Suisse: étude 2014
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/02/2016
Closing the gender gap in education: what is the state of gaps in labour force participation for women, wives and mothers?
The educational gender gap has closed or reversed in many countries. But what of gendered labour market inequalities? Using micro-level census data for some 40 countries, the authors examine the labour force participation gap between men and women, the “marriage gap” between married and single women’s participation, and the “motherhood gap” between mothers’ and nonmothers’...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Does public sector control reduce variance in school quality?
Does the government control of school systems facilitate equality in school quality? Whether centralized or localized control produces more equality depends not only on what ‘could’ happen in principle, but also on what does happen in practice. We use the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) database to examine the association between school sector and the variance...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/10/2015
Institutions, corporate governance and capital flows
Countries with weaker domestic investor protection hold less diversified international portfolios. An equilibrium business cycle model of North-South capital flow with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and corporate insiders explains this phenomenon through two channels. First,weak governance leads to concentrated ownership in the South because international...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 05/10/2015
The impact of three Mexican nutritional programs: the case of Dif-Puebla
This paper presents an impact evaluation of three nutritional programs implemented in Puebla, Mexico, run by SEDIF, a social assistance institution. The present study uses both a propensity score matching and weighting in order to balance the treatment and the control groups in terms of observable characteristics, and to estimate, later on, the causal effect of the programs on...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Masked development: exploring the hidden benefits of the Zapatista conflict
In 1994, the Zapatistas took up arms claiming for indigenous people rights in Chiapas, Mexico. After 12 days of civil war, the national government called for dialogue. Nevertheless, since then, it has deployed a "low intensity war" over the self-declared Zapatista Autonomous Communities. At the same time, the Zapatistas started to implement a new set of institutions, which have...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
What drives financial inclusion at the bottom of pyramid?: empirical evidence from microfinance panel data
Microfinance has played a key role in including the poor in financial markets. This paper uses microfinance data to approximate financial inclusion in the poorer segments of the population and proposes a quantile regression approach to study the development of microfinance markets. Our approach accounts for the dynamic and heterogeneous impacts that key drivers may have across...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Doing well by doing good ?: empirical evidence from microfinance
This paper proposes novel identification techniques to examine the trade-offs that microfinance institutions face between increasing their profits and their social impact. It uses a quantile regression approach to examine how these trade-offs evolve as institutions become more commercialized. The identification strategy is based on an instrumental variable approach, and also...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 23/07/2015
Monetary and financial cooperation in East Asia: the state of affairs after the global and European crises
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 08/06/2015
Minimum wage law for domestic workers: impact evaluation of the indian experience
We conduct an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers that was introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining the matching and difference-in-difference estimation strategies we estimate both the short-run and long-run impacts of the legislation on real wages and on employment opportunities. Our results show a positive impact...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 22/05/2015
Institutional learning in North-South research partnerships
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 12/05/2015
Giving credit to productivity
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 10/04/2015
Saving by default: evidence from a field experiment in India
A growing share of the world population is getting access to a formal bank account. This allows a move from cash to account based payments. Grounding our hypothesis in behavioral economics, we conjecture that being paid on an account instead of in cash can play a major role in encouraging savings. When paid on the account, the money is saved by default, while - as long as payments...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 01/04/2015
Unexpected pricing-to-market in goods classified as homogeneous
This paper uses cross-country, firm-level, panel data to study how exporters from Low Income Countries (LICs) adjust their prices according to their trade partners’ characteristics. The results show that the free on board (fob) price of exports is differentiated across markets in all countries in the sample. This differentiated pricing is not commonly associated with small economies...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
/ 23/02/2015
The Eurozone crisis: a near-perfect case of mismanagement
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 18/02/2015
The origins and resolution of debt crises: it is not always fiscal!
This paper shows that debt crises do not always have a fiscal nature and suggests that fiscal retrenchment may not be the optimal response to a crisis that did not originate from irresponsible fiscal policies. The paper starts by discussing the origin of debt crises and the unexplained part of public debt and for avoiding debt explosions linked to financial crises or poor debt...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 20/10/2014
The State, socialization, and private schooling: when will governments support alternative producers?
Understanding the institutional features that can improve learning outcomes and reduce inequality is a top priority for international and development organizations around the world. Economists appear to have a good case for support to non-governmental alternatives as suppliers of schooling. However, unlike other policy domains, freer international trade or privatization, economists...
Institution partenaire
Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement
English / 16/10/2014
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