AbstractThis paper studies the executive-legislative exchange of centrally allocated benefits (jam) for legislative support in Colombia using data from road building projects, legislative roll-call votes, and a leaked database which uncovered the assig…
AbstractWe introduce two empirical strategies harnessing the randomness in school assignment mechanisms to measure school value-added. The first estimator controls for the probability of school assignment, treating take-up as ignorable. We test this as…
AbstractWe estimate the effects of student loan access on educational attainment and labor market returns in New Zealand. We exploit the introduction of a national policy mandating a 50% pass rate for student loan renewals using a regression discontinu…
AbstractWe study how homeowners’ consumption responds to a negative and anticipated disposable income shock: the beginning of the amortization period on interest-only mortgages. We identify spending behavior through an event study approach, by matching…
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The Indian Economic Journal, Ahead of Print. This study is an ex-post analysis of household health expenditure for rural India in the presence of climate shock. Primary data from Odisha state, located on the east coast of India, are collected for empir…
The Indian Economic Journal, Ahead of Print. We examine if policy interventions to curb the spread of COVID-19 were driven by political factors. We focus on the period between 1 June and 31 August 2020 when lockdowns and testing were the only responses…
The Indian Economic Journal, Ahead of Print. In India, the differences in a range of development indicators, including wages and earnings, along the spatial, caste, religious and ethnicity lines have been a serious concern. This article revisits the wa…
The Indian Economic Journal, Ahead of Print. The present study is an attempt to identify the major sources of economic growth in India over the period 1971–2016 by employing the auto-regressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing model. The long-run …