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1. Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels
Akalbeo, Benard; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2022
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 2. The role of historical malaria in institutions and contemporary economic development
Gooch, Elizabeth; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2021
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 3. Fiscal Decentralization and Structural Versus Cyclical Unemployment Levels
abstractThe literature on fiscal federalism has long debated whether fiscally decentralized countries are inherently more economically and fiscally unstable. This paper contributes to this literature by analyzing the impact of fiscal decentralization on one of the most important dimensions of macroeconomic stability, the unemployment level. This is the first study in the literature to address the relationship between fiscal decentralization and unemployment rate at the country level, especially using the decomposition between its structural and cyclical components. The fundamental relationship is explored empirically by using an instrumental variable approach on a panel of 52 countries between 1991 and 2012. The main result is that more fiscally decentralized countries in general tend to experience lower unemployment rates. We also find, as theoretically anticipated, that the impact of fiscal decentralization is mostly on structural unemployment compared to cyclical unemployment. The results are robust to alternative specifications
Akalbeo, Benard; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2023
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4. The role of historical malaria in institutions and contemporary economic development
Gooch, Elizabeth; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2023
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Link 5. Fiscal decentralization and structural versus cyclical unemployment levels
Akalbeo, Benard; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2023
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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6. Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2019
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link 7. Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth
abstractThis paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity issue stemming from reverse causality and unobserved factors that has plagued previous extensive literature on this subject. In our approach, we use the Geographic Fragmentation Index (GFI) and country size as instrumental variables, which we argue are strong and consistent instruments for fiscal decentralization. Empirically, we find that indeed both instruments are strong and valid in the first stage of estimation and that on average, a 10 percent increase in subnational expenditure or revenue shares - the conventional measures of decentralization - will increase GDP per capita growth by approximately 0.4 percentage points; however, the results differ for developed versus developing countries.
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2019
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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Link Citations: 3 (based on OpenCitations)
8. Overcoming Behavioral Impediments to Maternal Care : Experimental Evidence on Domain Knowledge and Nudgeability from Recalcitrant Pakistan
abstractWe conducted a large-scale field experiment to calibrate phone messaging to its potential of overcoming behavioral barriers to maternal care uptake in the countryside of a developing country, where a significant share of women forgoes life-saving maternity-related care even when within reach. The high-arching goal of our intervention is to test if and to what extent filling out insufficient domain knowledge (i.e., childbearing-related health literacy) generates responsiveness to nudges for adopting maternal care among the rural poor of Pakistan. We find that informational nudges sent in a random order using the appropriate medium of communication, voice messages, during pregnancy significantly improve care-seeking behaviors, measured by antenatal care, postpartum checkup, and postnatal visits, through improved literacy. Importantly, we document that high-frequency voice calls timed to gestational age substantially increase the efficacy of informational nudges, including boosting facility deliveries, once domain knowledge is built and nudgeability established. Nevertheless, small financial incentives trump the productivity of informational voice calls in both improving health literacy and boosting care uptake, likely due to participants equating the intrinsic value of the intended behavioral change to the size of the monetary reward. These results are scalable to a large number of populations across developing nations
Cyan, Musharraf Rasool; Cesur, Resul; Civelek, Yasin; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan; Rothenberg, Richard;2022
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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9. Local government revenue diversification : prospects for Connecticut
Wheeler, Laura; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2021
Type: Aufsatz im Buch; Book section;
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10. Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? : a randomized trial in Kazakhstan
Bhanot, Syon P.; Crost, Benjamin; Leight, Jessica; Mvukiyehe, Eric; Yedgenov, Bauyrzhan;2021
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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Citations: 4 (based on OpenCitations)