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1.

Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16143
Number of pages: 126 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Niklas Engbom and Christian Moser
New York University (NYU) and Columbia University

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2.

Complementarities in Infrastructure: Evidence from Rural India

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16139
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Oliver Vanden Eynde and Liam Wren-Lewis
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and affiliation not provided to SSRN
3.

Earnings Inequality and Dynamics in the Presence of Informality: The Case of Brazil

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16117
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Niklas Engbom, Gustavo Gonzaga, Christian Moser and Roberta Olivieri
New York University (NYU), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Columbia University and Cornell University, Department of Economics, Students

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4.

The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence from Randomized Tax Abatements in the Drc

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16116
Number of pages: 153 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Augustin Bergeron, Gabriel Tourek and Jonathan Weigel
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Harvard University
5.

Losing on the Home Front? Battlefield Casualties, Media, and Public Support for Foreign Interventions

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16102
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Thiemo Fetzer, Pedro CL Souza, Oliver Vanden Eynde and Kara Ross Camarena
University of Warwick, University of Warwick, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy

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6.

Selecting the Most Effective Nudge: Evidence from a Large-Scale Experiment on Immunization

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16084
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Abhijit V. Banerjee, Arun G. Chandrasekhar, Suresh Kumar Dalpath, Esther Duflo, John Floretta, Matthew O. Jackson, Harini Kannan, Francine Loza, Anirudh Sankar, Anna Schrimpf and Maheshwor Shrestha
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Department of Economics, State Health Systems Resource Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Stanford University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Independent, Stanford University, Paris School of Economics (PSE) and World Bank

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7.

Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from Around the World

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16060
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Raymond J. Fisman, Sergei Guriev, Carolin Ioramashvili and Alexander Plekhanov
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Sciences Po, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)

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8.

The Long-Run Impact of the Dissolution of the English Monasteries

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16055
Number of pages: 110 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Leander Heldring, James Robinson and Sebastian Vollmer
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and University of Goettingen (Göttingen)
9.

The Value of Political Connections: Evidence from China&Apos;S Anti-Corruption Campaign

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16026
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Marta Alonso, Nuno Pedro G. Palma and beatriz Simon
affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Manchester and affiliation not provided to SSRN
10.

Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16015
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
Sciences Po - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Business School (HBS) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

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11.

Serving the Underserved: Microcredit as a Pathway to Commercial Banks

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16013
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Sumit Agarwal, Thomas Kigabo, Camelia Minoiu, Andrea Presbitero and André F. Silva
National University of Singapore, National Bank of Rwanda, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Johns Hopkins University and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

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12.

The Nexus of Elites and War Mobilization

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP16010
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Ying Bai, Ruixue Jia and Jiaojiao Yang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

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13.

Covid-19 Time-Varying Reproduction Numbers Worldwide: An Empirical Analysis of Mandatory and Voluntary Social Distancing

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15993
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Alexander Chudik, M. Hashem Pesaran and Alessandro Rebucci
Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, University of Southern California - Department of Economics and Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School

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Consumer Protection for Financial Inclusion in Low and Middle Income Countries: Bridging Regulator and Academic Perspectives

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15596
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 May 2021
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Seth Garz, Xavier Giné, Dean S. Karlan, Rafe Mazer, Caitlin Sanford and Jonathan Zinman
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG), Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Innovations for Poverty Action, Innovations for Poverty Action and Dartmouth College

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15.

Returns to International Migration: Evidence from a Bangladesh-Malaysia Visa Lottery

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15990
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, Iffath Sharif and Maheshwor Shrestha
Yale School of Management, World Bank and World Bank

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Taxing Property in Developing Countries: Theory and Evidence from Mexico

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15983
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Anne Brockmeyer, Alejandro Estefan, Karina Ramírez Arras and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
World Bank, University of Notre Dame, Mexico's Ministry of Finance and Duke University - Department of Economics

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17.

Africa's Latent Assets

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15963
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Soeren Henn and James Robinson
Harvard University and University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy

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18.

Using Machine Learning and Qualitative Interviews to Design a Five-Question Women's Agency Index

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15961
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Monica Biradavolu, Jan Cooper and Seema Jayachandran
QualAnalytics, Harvard University T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Northwestern University - Department of Economics
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Enforcement of Labor Regulation and the Labor Market Effects of Trade: Evidence from Brazil

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15960
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Vladimir Ponczek and Gabriel Ulyssea
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University College London
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OLS Estimation of the Intra-Household Distribution of Expenditure

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15955
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Valérie Lechene, Krishna Pendakur and Alex Wolf
University College London, Simon Fraser University (SFU) - Department of Economics and Compass Lexecon
21.

Reducing Parent-School Information Gaps and Improving Education Outcomes: Evidence from High-Frequency Text Messages

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15949
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Samuel Berlinski, Matias Busso, Taryn Dinkelman and Claudia Martinez A.
Inter-American Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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22.

The Rise of Agribusinesses and its Distributional Consequences

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15942
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 31 Mar 2021
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Swati Dhingra and Silvana Tenreyro
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics
23.

Sharing the Pie: An Analysis of Undernutrition and Individual Consumption in Bangladesh

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15925
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 16 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
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Caitlin Brown, Rossella Calvi and Jacob Penglase
University of Manchester, Rice University - Department of Economics and San Diego State University - Department of Economics
24.

Closing the Gender Profit Gap

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15916
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Catia Batista, Sandra Sequeira and Pedro C. Vicente
Nova School of Business and Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and New University of Lisbon - Nova School of Business and Economics

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The More the Poorer? Resource Sharing and Scale Economies in Large Families

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15924
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
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Rossella Calvi, Jacob Penglase, Denni Tommasi and Alex Wolf
Rice University - Department of Economics, San Diego State University - Department of Economics, Monash University and Compass Lexecon

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Historical Gender Discrimination Does Not Explain Comparative Western European Development: Evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15922
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 15 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2021
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Nuno Pedro G. Palma, Jaime Reis and Lisbeth Rodrigues
University of Manchester, University of Lisbon - Institute of Social Science and affiliation not provided to SSRN
27.

Big Push in Distorted Economies

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15910
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Francisco J. Buera, Hugo A. Hopenhayn, Yongseok Shin and Nicholas Trachter
Washington University in St. Louis, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Banks - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

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28.

Average Income, Income Inequality and Export Unit Values

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15887
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Helene Latzer and Florian Mayneris
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
29.

Managerial and Financial Barriers to the Net-Zero Transition

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15886
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Ralph De Haas, Ralf Martin, Mirabelle Muûls and Helena Schweiger
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Imperial College London, Imperial College Business School and Grantham Institute - Climate Change and the environment and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) - Office of the Chief Economist

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The Fetters of the SIB - an Experimental Study in Burkina Faso

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15876
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Myriam Hadnes, Michael Kosfeld, Marco Nilgen and Ni Wayan Rustiarini
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Goethe University Frankfurt, University of Marburg and University of Marburg

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When Distance Drives Destination, Towns Can Stimulate Development

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15868
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Luc Christiaensen, Joachim De Weerdt and Ravi Kanbur
World Bank, University of Antwerp and Cornell University
32.

Credit Constraints and Demand for Remedial Education: Evidence from Tanzania

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15862
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Mar 2021
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Konrad Burchardi, Jonathan de Quidt, Selim Gulesci and Munshi Sulaiman
Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and BRAC-Africa
33.

The Welfare Cost of a Current Account Imbalance: A 'Clean' Channel

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15805
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Jungho Lee, Shang-Jin Wei and Jianhuan Xu
Singapore Management University - School of Economics, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Singapore Management University
34.

In Vaccines We Trust? The Effects of the CIA's Vaccine Ruse on Immunization in Pakistan

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15847
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Monica Martinez-Bravo and Andreas Stegmann
Centre for Monetary and Financial Studies (CEMFI) and University of Warwick
35.

In-Kind Transfers as Insurance

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15844
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Lucie Gadenne, Samuel Norris, Monica Singhal and Sandip Sukhtankar
University of Warwick, University of Chicago, University of California, Davis and University of Virginia - Department of Economics

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Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15837
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Erika Deserranno and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
37.

Economic and Institutional Consequences of Populism

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15824
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Nicolás E. Magud and Antonio Spilimbergo
International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department
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Firms, Kinship and Economic Growth in the Kyrgyz Republic

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15813
Number of pages: 86 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Castaneda Dower, Theodore Gerber and Shlomo Weber
University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of Wisconsin - Madison and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Department of Economics
39.

Did the Cold War Produce Development Clusters in Africa?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15810
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Castaneda Dower, Gunes Gokmen, Michel Le Breton and Shlomo Weber
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Lund University, University of Toulouse I - GREMAQ-IDEI and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Department of Economics
40.

Testing Willingness to Pay Elicitation Mechanisms in the Field: Evidence from Uganda

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15809
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Konrad Burchardi, Jonathan de Quidt, Selim Gulesci, Benedetta Lerva and Stefano Tripodi
Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), Bocconi University - Department of Economics, Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets and Copenhagen Business School

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Can Youth Empowerment Programs Reduce Violence Against Girls During the COVID-19 Pandemic?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15808
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 01 Mar 2021
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Selim Gulesci, Manuela Puente Beccar and Diego Ubfal
Bocconi University - Department of Economics, Bocconi University and Africa Gender Innovation Lab, World Bank
42.

Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15802
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 12 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2021
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Alberto Bisin, Jared Rubin, Avner Seror and Thierry Verdier
New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics, Aix Marseille Université and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

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Growing Through Competition: The Reduction of Entry Barriers Among Chinese Manufacturing Firms

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15763
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
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Helu Jiang, Yu Zheng and Lijun Zhu
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Queen Mary University of London and Peking University
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The Unholy Trinity: Regulatory Forbearance, Stressed Banks and Zombie Firms

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15773
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
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Anusha Chari, Lakshita Jain and Nirupama Kulkarni
University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Department of Economics, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and CAFRAL

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Social Exclusion and Ethnic Segregation in Schools: The Role of Teacher&Apos;S Ethnic Prejudice

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15784
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
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Sule Alan, Enes Duysak, Elif Kubilay and Ipek Mumcu
European University Institute, University of Essex, Bocconi University and University of Exeter
46.

Unequal Mortality During the Spanish Flu

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15783
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
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Sergi Basco, Jordi Domenech and Joan R. Rosés
Universitat Barcelona, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics
47.

When Transparency Fails: Financial Incentives for Local Banking Agents in Indonesia

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15714
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
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Erika Deserranno and Gianmarco León-Ciliotta
Northwestern University - Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Barcelona GSE
48.

A Division of Laborers: Identity and Efficiency in India

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15778
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
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Guilhem Cassan, Daniel Keniston and Tatjana Kleineberg
University of Namur, Yale University and World Bank

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49.

A Stepping Stone Approach to Understanding Harmful Norms

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15776
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
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Selim Gulesci, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman and H. Young
Bocconi University - Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, Bocconi University - Department of Economics, University of Queensland, BRAC-Africa and University of Oxford
50.

From Micro to Macro Development

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP15775
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 11 Feb 2021
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Francisco J. Buera, Joseph P. Kaboski and Robert M. Townsend
Washington University in St. Louis, Ohio State University (OSU) - Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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