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Abstract In May 2001, Senator James Jeffords left the Republican Party and tipped control of
the US Senate to the Democrats. This paper uses the surprise event to demonstrate what I
term the “Jeffords effect”: changes in the political landscape have large effects on the ...
M Kremer… - 2002 - nber.org
Some argue that sovereign debt incurred without the consent of the people and not for their
benefit, such as that of apartheid South Africa, should be considered odious and not
transferable to successor governments. We argue that an institution that truthfully ...
S Jayachandran… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2009 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Theory suggests that longer life expectancy encourages educational investment
because a longer time horizon increases the value of investments that pay out over time. To
estimate the magnitude of this effect, we examine a sudden drop in maternal mortality in ...
S Jayachandran… - The American economic review, 2006 - ingentaconnect.com
Abstract: Trade sanctions are often criticized as ineffective because they create incentives
for evasion or as harmful to the target country's population. Loan sanctions, in contrast, could
be self-enforcing and could protect the population from being saddled with" odious debt" ...
Productivity risk is pervasive in underdeveloped countries. This paper highlights a way in
which underdevelopment exacerbates productivity risk. Productivity shocks cause larger
changes in the wage when workers are poorer, less able to migrate, and more credit- ...
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the
impact this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting
the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring deaths from" missing ...
S Jayachandran… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2011 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract Breastfeeding is negatively correlated with future fertility because nursing
temporarily reduces fecundity and because mothers usually wean on becoming pregnant
again. We model breastfeeding under son-biased fertility preferences and show that ...
E Field,
S Jayachandran… - American Economic Review Papers …, 2010 - ifmr.ac.in
What constrains the entrepreneurial choices of poor women? Do traditional institutions pose
unique barriers to business growth and profitability for female-run enterprises? The
explosion of microfinance programs, which typically target poor female entrepreneurs, has ...
This paper studies the contribution of sulfa drugs, a groundbreaking medical innovation in
the 1930s, to declines in US mortality. For several often-fatal infectious diseases, sulfa drugs
represented the first effective treatment. Using time-series and difference-in-differences ...
S Jayachandran - California Center for Population Research, On …, 2005 - ipl.econ.duke.edu
Abstract Air quality was extremely poor in Indonesia in late 1997 due to smoke from massive
wildfires which had been set intentionally to clear land. This paper examines the impact this
episode of air pollution (particulate matter) had on infant and fetal mortality. Deaths are ...
[CITATION] Applying the odious debt doctrine while preserving legitimate lending
S Jayachandran, M Kremer… - Center for International Development, 2006
M Kremer… - The Brookings Review, 2003 - JSTOR
When the international community wants to put pressure on a govern ment that suppresses
democracy and human rights, it commonly imposes economic sanctions. Traditional
sanctions, however, are often either ineffective or inhumane. Targeted governments find ...
Abstract In a model of an agrarian economy in which individuals vary in landownership,
workers supply labor more inelastically the poorer they are and the less easily they can
borrow, save, or migrate in response to productivity shocks. Consequently, ...
D Lee… - … à l'adresse: http://mobileactive. org/ …, 2009 - mobileactive.org
ABSTRACT Mobile phones have grown at an extraordinary rate throughout the developing
world in recent years. They are potentially an invaluable economic asset to the poor and an
important tool for strengthening social ties. Mobile phones may also help women ...
JM Cunha, G De Giorgi… - 2011 - nber.org
This paper compares how cash and in-kind transfers affect local prices. Both types of
transfers increase the demand for normal goods, but only in-kind transfers also increase
supply. Hence, in-kind transfers should lead to lower prices than cash transfers, which ...
P Glewwe… - Applied Economics Workshop, …, 2006 - chicagobooth.edu
Abstract One reason for low quality of education in developing countries is that teachers lack
strong performance incentives. This paper focuses on a widespread phenomenon that
appears to give teachers especially bad incentives. Government teachers routinely offer ...
Abstract Schoolteachers in developing countries frequently offer for-profit tutoring to their
own students. The teachers have an incentive to teach less during school to increase
demand for their tutoring in many cases. Thus, the market for tutoring can have spillover ...
[CITATION] The politics of public good provision: Evidence from indian local governments
S Jayachandran… - 2009 - NBER Working Papers
[CITATION] Odious Debt”: Finance and Development
M Kremer… - IMF, June, 2002
M Kremer… - The Financial Times (8 May 2003), online: …, 2003 - cgdev.org
Under Saddam Hussein's rule, Iraq amassed an estimated Dollars 100bn in debt, or over
three times its gross domestic product. In all likelihood postwar Iraq will refuse to repay the
debt in full. The country can make a strong case that Mr Hussein borrowed without the ...
[CITATION] Longevity and human capital investments: evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka
A Lleras-Muney… - Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009
R Pande, E Field,
S Jayachandran… - Centre for Micro Finance …, 2007 - ifmr.ac.in
Setting Shri Mahila SEWA Sahkari Bank was created in 1974, by the Self Employed
Women's Association (SEWA) in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The bank's 170,000
member–clients are primarily women who work in the informal sector in home-based ...
Abstract Thesis (Ph. D., Dept. of Economics)--Harvard University, 2004.. Includes
bibliographical references (leaves 131-135).. Selling labor low: equilibrium wage volatilty in
developing countries--The Jeffords effect--Odious debt.
Abstract: Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper
examines the impact that this air pollution (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child
mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution and inferring ...
[CITATION] Loan Sanctions and Odious Debt
M Kremer… - Financial Times, 2003
[CITATION] Life expectancy and investments in human capital: Evidence from maternal mortality declines in Sri Lanka
[CITATION] Microfinance Performance and Domestic GDP Growth: Testing the Resiliency of Microfinance Institutions to Economic Change May 13, 2008 John …
S Jayachandran - 2008
Abstract In an agrarian economy in which individuals vary in landownership, the poorer
workers are and the less easily they can borrow, save, or migrate in response to productivity
shocks, the more inelastically they supply labor. Underdeveloped and isolated areas ...
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the
implications for breastfeeding decisions and test the model's predictions using survey data
from India. First, we find that breastfeeding increases with birth order, since mothers near ...
Abstract In a model of an agrarian economy in which individuals vary in landownership,
workers supply labor more inelastically the poorer they are and the less easily they can
borrow, save, or migrate in response to productivity shocks. Consequently, ...
J Cunha, G De Giorgi… - 2011 - cepr.org
This paper compares how cash and in-kind transfers affect local prices. Both types of
transfers increase the demand for normal goods, but only in-kind transfers also increase
supply. Hence, in-kind transfers should lead to lower prices than cash transfers, which ...
SJ Haber, JL Rosenthal, S Subrahmanyam… - Cambridge Univ Press
In recent years, there has been an emerging consensus among economists that more
ethnically diverse populations are less successful in providing public goods. 1 Despite
agreement on the negative association between greater ethnic or social diversity and the ...
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