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The Alibaba effect: Spatial inequality and the welfare gains from e-commerce
E-commerce disproportionately benefits consumers in small and remote places, helping to reduce disparities in living standards across locations
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Learning from drunk and absent policemen in Kenya
Historical data from Kenya show that when an ethnic group gains power, public servants of that group may be emboldened to misbehave
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Let their people come: Migrants as drivers of knowledge diffusion
Migration, particularly skilled migration, is a driver of knowledge diffusion and it can induce productivity shifts as measured by new exports
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Tax audits as scarecrows: Evidence from Uruguay
How does information about tax audits affect tax evasion? Firms do increase their tax compliance but this response is not necessarily rational.
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Does Fair Trade work?
Fair Trade coffee produced in Costa Rica benefits the producers and skilled workers, but not the unskilled workers
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Population policies and fertility convergence
While urbanisation and socioeconomic factors played a role, the global decline in fertility is largely due to successful population control programmes
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International migration's long-term impact: Evidence from a lottery
Outcomes for migration lottery winners suggest the economic payoff to moving to a richer country comes immediately and persists for at least a decade
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Upgrading outputs means upgrading inputs
Success when exporting to richer countries requires upgrading the quality of products, but also of inputs
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Tourism and economic development: Evidence from Mexico's coastline
Tourism leads to long-run economic gains locally and in the aggregate. The local gains are in part driven by positive spillovers on manufacturing.