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Vulnerability to natural shocks

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures. In...

  • Welfare impact
  • Flood
  • Difference-in-differences
Working Paper
Educational assistance and education quality in Indonesia

We examine the evolution of educational assistance in Indonesia, following two decades of government decentralization, and its effect on education quality. Using Indonesia Family Life Survey data, we exploit as exogenous rule the variation in the...

  • Decentralization
  • Education transfer
  • Education quality
Working Paper
Ban on female migrant workers

This study examines the skills-differentiated impact of a restrictive female labour migration policy in Sri Lanka using monthly departure data from 2012 to 2018 in a difference-in-difference model. The policy has resulted in decreasing departures...

  • Labour migration
  • Employment
  • Women
Working Paper
Does project-level aid for water and sanitation improve child health outcomes?

Empirical studies on the effectiveness of aid to the water, sanitation, and hygiene sector (WASH aid) have focused primarily on access to these services as the benchmark for evaluating the effectiveness of aid in this sector. Given the importance of...

  • Aid effectiveness
  • Public health
  • Water
Working Paper
The socioeconomic impact of coal mining in Mozambique

This study assesses the impact of four coal mines in Mozambique on the socioeconomic outcomes of the local population. We combine four waves of household surveys with coal mine locations data and employ a difference-in-difference model. The timing of...

  • Mining
  • Difference-in-differences
  • Poverty
Working Paper
Estimating employment responses to South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive

We present new evidence on the effects of South Africa’s Employment Tax Incentive (ETI), a hiring and employment wage subsidy aimed at reducing youth unemployment. We show that attempts to estimate firm-level treatment effects via conditional...

  • Difference-in-differences
  • Employment
  • event study
Working Paper
Agricultural input subsidy and farmers outcomes in Tanzania

This paper examines the impact of the government input subsidy—the National Agriculture Input Voucher—on farmers’ production and welfare in Tanzania as well as the factors that influence agricultural production in the country. The analysis is based...

  • Difference-in-differences
  • Subsidies
  • Production
Working Paper
Finance, gender, and entrepreneurship

How does informal economic activity respond to increased financial inclusion? Does it become more entrepreneurial? Does access to new financing options change the gender configuration of informal economic activity and, if so, in what ways and what...

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial constraints
  • Gender
Journal Article
Finance, gender and entrepreneurship

Part of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial constraints
  • Gender
Journal Article
Vulnerability to natural shocks

Mozambique is among the most disaster-prone countries in the world. A bigger than usual, and mostly unexpected, flood occurred in the central-northern region of the country in the first few months of 2015, causing huge damage to infrastructures. In...

  • Welfare impact
  • Flood
  • Difference-in-differences
Journal Article
Educational Assistance and Education Quality in Indonesia

Part of Journal Special Issue Welfare and distributive effects of social assistance in the Global South

  • Decentralization
  • Education transfer
  • Education quality
Working Paper
'It's our turn (not) to learn': the pitfalls of education reform during post-war institutional transformation

In this study, we investigate the relationship between education reform, institutional legacies of inequality, and changing political institutions in a poor, conflict-affected country. Burundi experienced a dramatic change in ethnic power relations...

  • Education reform
  • Difference-in-differences
  • Inclusive institutions
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Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna on difference-in-differences with multiple time periods

On 23 June Professor Sant'Anna presents an online seminar discussing his new paper: Difference-in-differences with multiple time periods. Abstract In this article, we consider identification, estimation, and inference procedures for treatment effect...

23 June 2021
Online, Finland
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