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Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics: New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-04)We examine gender gaps in career dynamics in the legal sector using rich panel data from one of the largest global law firms in the world. The law firm studied is representative of multinational law firms and operates in ... -
A Generation of Italian Economists
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021)We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the impact of a large merit-based scholarship for graduate studies in affecting individuals’ occupational ... -
Geography, Economic Policy and Regional Development in China
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-10)Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects ... -
Getting Back on the Curve: South Africa's Manufacturing Challenge
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-11)The report aims to inform the government’s strategic approach towards manufacturing by analyzing the potential and limits for job creation within the sector. To meet that goal, we analyze the sector’s main features and ... -
Getting Real about Unknowns in Complex Policy Work
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-02)As with all public policy work, education policies are demanding. Policy workers need to ‘know’ a lot—about the problems they are addressing, the people who need to be engaged, the promises they can make in response, the ... -
Getting the Ball Rolling: Basis for Assessing the Sports Economy
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-07)Data on the sports economy is often difficult to interpret, far from transparent, or simply unavailable. Data fraught with weaknesses causes observers of the sports economy to account for the sector differently, rendering ... -
Giffen Behavior: Theory and Evidence
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2007-07)This paper provides the first real-world evidence of Giffen behavior, i.e., upward sloping demand. Subsidizing the prices of dietary staples for extremely poor households in two provinces of China, we find strong evidence ... -
The Global Health System: Institutions in a Time of Transition
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2017-04-04)The global health system is in a period of rapid transition, with an upsurge of funds and greater political recognition, a broader range of health challenges, many new actors, and the rules, norms and expectations that ... -
Global Imbalances or Bad Accounting? The Missing Dark Matter in the Wealth of Nations
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2006-01)This paper argues that current account statistics may provide a poor indication for the real evolution of a country’s net foreign assets. This may be due to a series of factors including the mismeasurement of FDI, unreported ... -
Global Supply Chain Pressures, International Trade, and Inflation
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-07)We study the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Euro Area inflation and how it compares to the experiences of other countries, such as the United States, over the two-year period 2020-21. Our model-based calibration exercises ... -
Globalization and Environment
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2000-07)Economic globalization impacts the environment and sustainable development in a wide variety of ways and through a multitude of channels. The purpose of this paper is (a) to identify the key links between globalization and ... -
Globalization and Protectionism: AMLO's 2006 Presidential Run
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2019-02)We study the effects of local tariff drops for Mexican exports to the US on the local electoral performance of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) in Mexico’s 2006 presidential election. In an effort to appeal to his rural ... -
Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2011-03)This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing ... -
Going beyond heroic-leaders in development
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2013-06)Leadership is an under-studied topic in the international development literature. When the topic is broached it is usually in support of what might be called a "hero orthodoxy:" One or other individual is identified as the ... -
Good Governance: The Inflation of an Idea
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)Good governance has grown rapidly to become a major ingredient in analyses of what's missing in countries struggling for economic and political development. Intuitively and in research, good governance is a seductive ... -
Governance and the Challenge of Development Through Sports: A Framework for Action
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2016-07)Previous papers such as Russell, Barrios & Andrews (2016), Guerra (2016), and Russell, Tokman, Barrios & Andrews (2016) have aimed to provide an empirical view into the sports economy. This proves to be a difficult task, ... -
Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2010-10)Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these indicators as a-theoretical and biased. Critics of the critics counter that no better ... -
Gradual Spread of Market-Led Industrialization
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 1999-04)The paper introduces asymmetric production conditions between firms and asymmetric transaction conditions between countries into the Murphy-Shleifer-Vishny model of industrialization. It explores a general equilibrium ... -
Grants Vs . Investment Subsidies
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2001-12)How should a government intervene to help the credit constrained poor? We study an economy where productivity and wealth are unobserved, and loans must be collateralized. We show that the efficient policy typically consists ... -
Growth Accelerations Strategies
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2018-04)Setting a country’s structural growth rate on a higher path, i.e. sparking and sustaining a growth acceleration can have quantitatively huge implications for national income and, more broadly, for people’s wellbeing. We ...