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An Empirical Investigation Of The Determinants Of Asymmetric Pricing, Marc Remer
An Empirical Investigation Of The Determinants Of Asymmetric Pricing, Marc Remer
Economics Faculty Works
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Using Volunteer Mentors To Improve The Academic Outcomes Of Underserved Students: The Role Of Relationships, Amanda Bayer, J. B. Grossman, D. L. Dubois
Using Volunteer Mentors To Improve The Academic Outcomes Of Underserved Students: The Role Of Relationships, Amanda Bayer, J. B. Grossman, D. L. Dubois
Economics Faculty Works
Schools can benefit from understanding how to use community volunteers to achieve academic goals. A randomized control evaluation, involving 1,139 students from 71 schools, of the school-based mentoring program of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America found modest but statistically significant improvements in the teacher-rated academic performance and self-reported scholastic efficacy of mentored students. The present study explores the causal mechanism behind these effects. We find that a close relationship between mentor and protégé appears key to better academic outcomes. Because relationship closeness is not randomly assigned, we use two-stage least squares and other methods to control for potential selection …
Informality, Trade Policies And Smuggling In West Africa, N. Benjamin, Stephen S. Golub, A. A. Mbaye
Informality, Trade Policies And Smuggling In West Africa, N. Benjamin, Stephen S. Golub, A. A. Mbaye
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In West Africa, recorded intra-regional trade is small but informal cross-border trade (ICBT) is pervasive, despite regional integration schemes intended to promote official trade. We argue that ICBT must be understood in light of two features of West African national boundaries: divergent economic policies between neighboring countries and the ease with which informal operators can ship goods across borders. We focus on two ICBT clusters: Senegal–The Gambia and Nigeria–Benin–Togo. Nigeria and Senegal have protected their domestic industries with high import barriers, whereas Benin, Togo and The Gambia have maintained lower import taxation. These differential trade policies, together with high mobility …
Employment, Unemployment, And Underemployment In Africa, Stephen S. Golub, Faraz Hayat , '14
Employment, Unemployment, And Underemployment In Africa, Stephen S. Golub, Faraz Hayat , '14
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This chapter documents and analyzes the predominance of informal employment in Africa and shows that lack of demand for labor rather than worker characteristics is the main reason for pervasive underemployment. Integration into the global economy and exports of labor-intensive products are vital to boosting the demand for labor in Africa. Africa has some potential to become competitive in light manufacturing, but the most promising avenue for export-led growth of employment in many African countries is agriculture, including traditional cash crops such as cotton, coffee, cocoa, and groundnuts. Traditional cash crops, which are the source of livelihood for millions of …
Monetary Policy Issues In Sub-Saharan Africa, A. Berg, Stephen A. O'Connell, C. Pattillo, R. Portillo, D. F. Unsal
Monetary Policy Issues In Sub-Saharan Africa, A. Berg, Stephen A. O'Connell, C. Pattillo, R. Portillo, D. F. Unsal
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What Were They Thinking? The Federal Reserve In The Run-Up To The 2008 Financial Crisis, Stephen S. Golub, Ayse Kaya, M. Reay
What Were They Thinking? The Federal Reserve In The Run-Up To The 2008 Financial Crisis, Stephen S. Golub, Ayse Kaya, M. Reay
Political Science Faculty Works
The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and ultimately stabilizing US financial markets. It also has unrivalled access to economic data, high-level connections to financial institutions, and a large staff of professionally trained economists. Why then was it apparently unconcerned by the financial developments that are now widely recognized to have caused the 2008 financial crisis? Using a wide range of Fed documents from the pre-crisis period, particularly the transcripts of meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), this paper shows that Fed policymakers and staff were aware of relevant developments in financial markets, but paid …
Liberal Arts Colleges And The Production Of Phd Economists, Philip N. Jefferson, Ellen B. Magenheim
Liberal Arts Colleges And The Production Of Phd Economists, Philip N. Jefferson, Ellen B. Magenheim
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Data from the National Science Foundation (2014) indicate that at least one PhD in economics was awarded to a Swarthmore College graduate in every year since 1966. The authors’ purpose in this article is to consider factors that may have contributed to the high number of PhDs in economics awarded to Swarthmore College graduates. While there is little doubt that self-selection plays a significant role, they describe curricular and environmental aspects of the economics department at Swarthmore that may have contributed to this outcome.
Is Poverty A Binding Constraint On Growth In Sub-Saharan Africa?, J.-Y. Duclos, Stephen A. O'Connell
Is Poverty A Binding Constraint On Growth In Sub-Saharan Africa?, J.-Y. Duclos, Stephen A. O'Connell
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