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Measuring aid effectively in tests of aid effectiveness
In the extensive empirical literature on aid effectiveness, aid is always measured as a share of GDP. However, measuring aid in real dollars per capita is also consistent with standard growth theory. We show that the choice ...
What Explains Changes in the Level of Abuse Against Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War?
Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that an ...
Does Aid Work for the Poor?
This paper econometrically examines the impact of aid on the well-being of population sub-groups within 48 developing countries. This is a radical departure from previous empirical research of aid effectiveness at the ...
Cows and conquistadors: a comment on the colonial origins of comparative development
Robust estimation of the impact of political institutions on economic development requires the identification of valid instruments for institutional quality. Acemoglu et al. [2001] introduced the use of colonial settler ...
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." A study of political violence and counter-insurgency in Egypt
This paper analyses a newly collected time-series database measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt. Attention is focused on the interaction between politically motivated attacks by Islamists and the ...
Education spending and Wagner’s law: New international evidence
This paper examines the association between economic development and two measures of public spending on education, namely the ‘national effort’ (total spending as a percentage of GDP) and ‘budget share’ (total spending as ...
Inertia and Herding in Humanitarian Aid Decisions
Using panel data for the period 1995-2008, we model the aid allocation decisions of the three largest official donors of humanitarian aid: the United States government, the United Kingdom government and the European ...
The impact of climate change on crop production in Ghana: A Structural Ricardian analysis
We apply a Structural Ricardian Model (SRM) to farm-level data from Ghana in order to estimate the impact of climate change on crop production. The SRM explicitly incorporates changes in farmers’ crop selection in response ...
Determinants of Relative Price Variability during a Recession: Evidence from Canada at the Time of the Great Depression
Most studies find that relative price variability (RPV) is a U-shaped or V-shaped function of anticipated inflation, and a V-shaped function of unanticipated inflation. One exception is Reinsdorf (1994), who finds that RPV ...
Access to Financing and Firm Growth: Evidence from Ethiopia
Using Ethiopian firm-level data, we model the effect of different types of financing on firm growth. The form of financing is potentially endogenous to firm growth, and one contribution of this paper is to introduce a new ...