cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/upjffc
title: ASPIRES South Africa RCT Final Analysis Dataset_1

description: FHI 360 conducted a full factorial randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine the effects of the financial capabilities and HIV prevention education interventions on the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents. The objectives of the RCT were to assess whether integrating an economic strengthening intervention with an HIV prevention education intervention improved economic and health outcomes more than either intervention alone, and to estimate the resources required at the program level to support the ES and HIV prevention education interventions.Data were collected through Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviews (ACASI) with participants and STI and pregnancy testing of urine samples at three time points: baseline, endline 1 (immediately after the end of the intervention), and endline 2 (9 months after endline 1). This dataset contains the baseline and endline survey and STI data
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/upjffc/0kyl8p
title: Analysis_Specs_12_27_2018.tab

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/upjffc/orixux
title: Analysis_deid.tab

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DOI: 10.3886/e112857
title: Replication data for: WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms: Corrigendum

description: This repository contains data and/or code supplementing the article "WTO Accession and Performance of Chinese Manufacturing Firms: Corrigendum".
DOI: 10.3886/e112858
title: Replication data for: Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-Riding in International Climate Policy

description: Notwithstanding great progress in scientific and economic understanding of climate change, it has proven difficult to forge international agreements because of free-riding, as seen in the defunct Kyoto Protocol. This study examines the club as a model for international climate policy. Based on economic theory and empirical modeling, it finds that without sanctions against non-participants there are no stable coalitions other than those with minimal abatement. By contrast, a regime with small trade penalties on non-participants, a Climate Club, can induce a large stable coalition with high levels of abatement. (JEL Q54, Q58, K32, K33)
DOI: 10.3886/e112858v1
title: Replication data for: Climate Clubs: Overcoming Free-Riding in International Climate Policy

description: Notwithstanding great progress in scientific and economic understanding of climate change, it has proven difficult to forge international agreements because of free-riding, as seen in the defunct Kyoto Protocol. This study examines the club as a model for international climate policy. Based on economic theory and empirical modeling, it finds that without sanctions against non-participants there are no stable coalitions other than those with minimal abatement. By contrast, a regime with small trade penalties on non-participants, a Climate Club, can induce a large stable coalition with high levels of abatement. (JEL Q54, Q58, K32, K33)
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sjhoti/coicwe
title: Survey_Endline1_7feb17_Annotated.pdf

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sjhoti/r834sw
title: Endline1_Specs_08_16_2018.xlsx

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sjhoti/t1vaqb
title: Endline1_analysis_deid.tab

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DOI: 10.3886/e112460
title: Replication data for: International Prices, Costs, and Markup Differences

description: Relative cross-border retail prices, in a common currency, comove closely with the nominal exchange rate. Using product-level prices and wholesale costs from a grocery chain operating in the United States and Canada, we decompose this variation into relative costs and markup components. The high correlation of nominal and real exchange rates is driven mainly by changes in relative costs. National borders segment markets. Retail prices respond to changes in costs in neighboring stores within the same country but not across the border. Prices have a median discontinuous change of 24 percent at the border and 0 percent at state boundaries. (JEL F31, L11, L81)
DOI: 10.3886/e112460v1
title: Replication data for: International Prices, Costs, and Markup Differences

description: Relative cross-border retail prices, in a common currency, comove closely with the nominal exchange rate. Using product-level prices and wholesale costs from a grocery chain operating in the United States and Canada, we decompose this variation into relative costs and markup components. The high correlation of nominal and real exchange rates is driven mainly by changes in relative costs. National borders segment markets. Retail prices respond to changes in costs in neighboring stores within the same country but not across the border. Prices have a median discontinuous change of 24 percent at the border and 0 percent at state boundaries. (JEL F31, L11, L81)
DOI: 10.3886/e112860
title: Replication data for: Trade and the Global Recession

description: We develop a dynamic multicountry general equilibrium model to investigate forces acting on the global economy during the Great Recession and ensuing recovery. Our multisector framework accounts completely for countries' trade, investment, production, and GDPs in terms of different sets of shocks. Applying the model to 21 countries, we investigate the 29 percent drop in world trade in manufactures during the period 2008-2009. A shift in final spending away from tradable sectors, largely caused by declines in durables investment efficiency, accounts for most of the collapse in trade relative to GDP. Shocks to trade frictions, productivity, and demand play minor roles.
DOI: 10.3886/e112860v1
title: Replication data for: Trade and the Global Recession

description: We develop a dynamic multicountry general equilibrium model to investigate forces acting on the global economy during the Great Recession and ensuing recovery. Our multisector framework accounts completely for countries' trade, investment, production, and GDPs in terms of different sets of shocks. Applying the model to 21 countries, we investigate the 29 percent drop in world trade in manufactures during the period 2008-2009. A shift in final spending away from tradable sectors, largely caused by declines in durables investment efficiency, accounts for most of the collapse in trade relative to GDP. Shocks to trade frictions, productivity, and demand play minor roles.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sjhoti
title: ASPIRES South Africa RCT Endline Datasets_1

description: FHI 360 conducted a full factorial randomized controlled trial (RCT) to determine the effects of the financial capabilities and HIV prevention education interventions on the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among adolescents. The objectives of the RCT were to assess whether integrating an economic strengthening intervention with an HIV prevention education intervention improved economic and health outcomes more than either intervention alone, and to estimate the resources required at the program level to support the ES and HIV prevention education interventions.Data were collected through Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviews (ACASI) with participants and STI and pregnancy testing of urine samples at three time points: baseline, endline 1 (immediately after the end of the intervention), and endline 2 (9 months after endline 1). This dataset contains the endline survey and STI data for endlines 1 and 2.
DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sjhoti/hqhquy
title: Endline2_Specs_08_16_2018.xlsx

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DOI: 10.7910/dvn/sjhoti/w1hf4z
title: Endline2_analysis_deid.tab

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DOI: 10.3886/e112861v1
title: Replication data for: Beyond GDP? Welfare across Countries and Time

description: We propose a summary statistic for the economic well-being of people in a country. Our measure incorporates consumption, leisure, mortality, and inequality, first for a narrow set of countries using detailed micro data, and then more broadly using multi-country datasets. While welfare is highly correlated with GDP per capita, deviations are often large. Western Europe looks considerably closer to the United States, emerging Asia has not caught up as much, and many developing countries are further behind. Each component we introduce plays a significant role in accounting for these differences, with mortality being most important.
DOI: 10.3886/e112862
title: Replication data for: Information Rigidity and the Expectations Formation Process: A Simple Framework and New Facts

description: We propose a new approach to test the full-information rational expectations hypothesis which can identify whether rejections of the null arise from information rigidities. This approach quantifies the economic significance of departures from the null and the underlying degree of information rigidity. Applying this approach to US and international data of professional forecasters and other agents yields pervasive evidence consistent with the presence of information rigidities. These results therefore provide a set of stylized facts which can be used to calibrate imperfect information models. Finally, we document evidence of state-dependence in the expectations formation process. (JEL C53, D83, D84, E13, E31, E37)
DOI: 10.3886/e112862v1
title: Replication data for: Information Rigidity and the Expectations Formation Process: A Simple Framework and New Facts

description: We propose a new approach to test the full-information rational expectations hypothesis which can identify whether rejections of the null arise from information rigidities. This approach quantifies the economic significance of departures from the null and the underlying degree of information rigidity. Applying this approach to US and international data of professional forecasters and other agents yields pervasive evidence consistent with the presence of information rigidities. These results therefore provide a set of stylized facts which can be used to calibrate imperfect information models. Finally, we document evidence of state-dependence in the expectations formation process. (JEL C53, D83, D84, E13, E31, E37)
DOI: 10.3886/e112863
title: Replication data for: Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

description: This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows and wages. Counterfactual experiments imply that Colombia's integration with global product markets increased its national income at the expense of higher unemployment, greater wage inequality, and increased firm-level volatility. In contrast, contemporaneous labor market reforms dampened the increase in unemployment and aggregate job turnover. The results speak more generally to the effects of globalization on labor markets. (JEL F13, F16, F66, J31, J63, O15, O19)
DOI: 10.3886/e112863v1
title: Replication data for: Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

description: This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows and wages. Counterfactual experiments imply that Colombia's integration with global product markets increased its national income at the expense of higher unemployment, greater wage inequality, and increased firm-level volatility. In contrast, contemporaneous labor market reforms dampened the increase in unemployment and aggregate job turnover. The results speak more generally to the effects of globalization on labor markets. (JEL F13, F16, F66, J31, J63, O15, O19)
DOI: 10.3886/e112864v1
title: Replication data for: Infrastructure Quality and the Subsidy Trap

description: Electricity and water are often subsidized in developing countries to increase their affordability for low-income households. Ideally, such subsidies would create sufficient demand in poor neighborhoods to encourage private investment in their infrastructure. Instead, many regions receiving large subsidies have precarious distribution networks supplying users who never pay. Using a structural model of household electricity demand in Colombia, I predict the change in consumption and profits from upgrading low-quality electricity connections. I show that the existing subsidies, which provide greater transfers to areas with unreliable supply, deter investment to modernize infrastructure. Finally, I analyze alternative programs with stronger investment incentives. (JEL H23, H54, L94, L98, O12, O13)
DOI: 10.3886/e112461
title: Replication data for: Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks

description: We show how changes in the volatility of the real interest rate at which small open emerging economies borrow have an important effect on variables like output, consumption, investment, and hours. We start by documenting the strong evidence of time-varying volatility in the real interest rates faced by four emerging economies: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. We estimate a stochastic volatility process for real interest rates. Then, we feed this process in a standard small open economy business cycle model. We find that an increase in real interest rate volatility triggers a fall in output, consumption, investment, hours, and debt. (JEL E13, E20, E32, E43, F32, F43, 011)
DOI: 10.3886/e112461v1
title: Replication data for: Risk Matters: The Real Effects of Volatility Shocks

description: We show how changes in the volatility of the real interest rate at which small open emerging economies borrow have an important effect on variables like output, consumption, investment, and hours. We start by documenting the strong evidence of time-varying volatility in the real interest rates faced by four emerging economies: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. We estimate a stochastic volatility process for real interest rates. Then, we feed this process in a standard small open economy business cycle model. We find that an increase in real interest rate volatility triggers a fall in output, consumption, investment, hours, and debt. (JEL E13, E20, E32, E43, F32, F43, 011)
DOI: 10.3886/e112462v1
title: Replication data for: The Potential of Social Identity for Equilibrium Selection

description: When does a common group identity improve efficiency in coordination games? To answer this question, we propose a group-contingent social preference model and derive conditions under which social identity changes equilibrium selection. We test our predictions in the minimum-effort game in the laboratory under parameter configurations which lead to an inefficient low-effort equilibrium for subjects with no group identity. For those with a salient group identity, consistent with our theory, we find that learning leads to ingroup coordination to the efficient high-effort equilibrium. Additionally, our theoretical framework reconciles findings from a number of coordination game experiments. (JEL C71, C91, D71)
DOI: 10.3886/e112518
title: Replication data for: Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

description: We develop a statistical framework to use satellite data on night lights to augment official income growth measures. For countries with poor national income accounts, the optimal estimate of growth is a composite with roughly equal weights on conventionally measured growth and growth predicted from lights. Our estimates differ from official data by up to three percentage points annually. Using lights, empirical analyses of growth need no longer use countries as the unit of analysis; we can measure growth for sub- and supranational regions. We show, for example, that coastal areas in sub-Saharan Africa are growing slower than the hinterland. (JEL E01, E23, O11, 047, 057)
DOI: 10.3886/e112518v1
title: Replication data for: Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space

description: We develop a statistical framework to use satellite data on night lights to augment official income growth measures. For countries with poor national income accounts, the optimal estimate of growth is a composite with roughly equal weights on conventionally measured growth and growth predicted from lights. Our estimates differ from official data by up to three percentage points annually. Using lights, empirical analyses of growth need no longer use countries as the unit of analysis; we can measure growth for sub- and supranational regions. We show, for example, that coastal areas in sub-Saharan Africa are growing slower than the hinterland. (JEL E01, E23, O11, 047, 057)
DOI: 10.3886/e112519
title: Replication data for: Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

description: We implement an empirical test for selection into health insurance using changes in coverage induced by the introduction of mandated health insurance in Massachusetts. Our test examines changes in the cost of the newly insured relative to those who were insured prior to the reform. We find that counties with larger increases in insurance coverage over the reform period face the smallest increase in average hospital costs for the insured population, consistent with adverse selection into insurance before the reform. Additional results, incorporating cross-state variation and data on health measures, provide further evidence for adverse selection.
DOI: 10.3886/e112519v1
title: Replication data for: Health Reform, Health Insurance, and Selection: Estimating Selection into Health Insurance Using the Massachusetts Health Reform

description: We implement an empirical test for selection into health insurance using changes in coverage induced by the introduction of mandated health insurance in Massachusetts. Our test examines changes in the cost of the newly insured relative to those who were insured prior to the reform. We find that counties with larger increases in insurance coverage over the reform period face the smallest increase in average hospital costs for the insured population, consistent with adverse selection into insurance before the reform. Additional results, incorporating cross-state variation and data on health measures, provide further evidence for adverse selection.
DOI: 10.3886/e112864
title: Replication data for: Infrastructure Quality and the Subsidy Trap

description: Electricity and water are often subsidized in developing countries to increase their affordability for low-income households. Ideally, such subsidies would create sufficient demand in poor neighborhoods to encourage private investment in their infrastructure. Instead, many regions receiving large subsidies have precarious distribution networks supplying users who never pay. Using a structural model of household electricity demand in Colombia, I predict the change in consumption and profits from upgrading low-quality electricity connections. I show that the existing subsidies, which provide greater transfers to areas with unreliable supply, deter investment to modernize infrastructure. Finally, I analyze alternative programs with stronger investment incentives. (JEL H23, H54, L94, L98, O12, O13)
DOI: 10.3886/e112865
title: Replication data for: Optimal Taxation and Debt with Uninsurable Risks to Human Capital Accumulation

description: We consider an economy where individuals face uninsurable risks to their human capital accumulation and analyze the optimal level of linear taxes on capital and labor income together with the optimal path of government debt. We show that in the presence of such risks, it is beneficial to tax both labor and capital and to issue public debt. We also assess the quantitative importance of these findings, and show that the benefits of government debt and capital taxes both increase with the magnitude of idiosyncratic risks and the degree of relative risk aversion. (JEL D52, H21, H24, H25, H63, J24)
DOI: 10.3886/e112865v1
title: Replication data for: Optimal Taxation and Debt with Uninsurable Risks to Human Capital Accumulation

description: We consider an economy where individuals face uninsurable risks to their human capital accumulation and analyze the optimal level of linear taxes on capital and labor income together with the optimal path of government debt. We show that in the presence of such risks, it is beneficial to tax both labor and capital and to issue public debt. We also assess the quantitative importance of these findings, and show that the benefits of government debt and capital taxes both increase with the magnitude of idiosyncratic risks and the degree of relative risk aversion. (JEL D52, H21, H24, H25, H63, J24)
DOI: 10.3886/e112866
title: Replication data for: Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

description: Market outcomes depend on the quality of information available to its participants. We measure the effect of information disclosure on market outcomes using a large-scale field experiment that randomly discloses quality information in wholesale automobile auctions. We argue that buyers in this market are horizontally differentiated across cars that are vertically ranked by quality. This implies that information disclosure helps match heterogeneous buyers to cars of varying quality, causing both good and bad news to increase competition and revenues. The data confirm these hypotheses. These findings have implications for the design of other markets, including e-commerce, procurement auctions, and labor markets. (JEL C93, D44, D82, L15)
DOI: 10.3886/e112866v1
title: Replication data for: Information Disclosure as a Matching Mechanism: Theory and Evidence from a Field Experiment

description: Market outcomes depend on the quality of information available to its participants. We measure the effect of information disclosure on market outcomes using a large-scale field experiment that randomly discloses quality information in wholesale automobile auctions. We argue that buyers in this market are horizontally differentiated across cars that are vertically ranked by quality. This implies that information disclosure helps match heterogeneous buyers to cars of varying quality, causing both good and bad news to increase competition and revenues. The data confirm these hypotheses. These findings have implications for the design of other markets, including e-commerce, procurement auctions, and labor markets. (JEL C93, D44, D82, L15)