Journal of Development Economics

These are the replication files for the following paper: Bhanot, S.P., Crost, B., Leight, J., Mvukiyehe, E. and Yedgenov, B., 2021. Can community service grants foster social and economic integration for youth? A randomized trial in Kazakhstan. Journal of Development Economics, 153, p.102718.

Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms’ decisions to integrate their cooperation partners into firm boundaries, rather than transact with independent companies at arm’s-length. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model which suggests that (i) cultural distance between contracting parties decreases the relative attractiveness of integration, and (ii) this effect is mitigated in more productive firms. We test these predictions using extensive product-, industry-, and firm-level data. We find a robust negative relationship between cultural distance and the relative attractiveness of integration. In line with our theoretical predictions, we also find that the effect of cultural distance on firm boundaries is less pronounced the higher firm’s productivity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2023.103175

The data and programs replicate the analysis from "Saving More in Groups: Field Experimental Evidence from Chile" by Felipe Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz (2018).

This is the replication package (data and code) for the paper "Education and Polygamy: Evidence from Cameroon"

In this replication package we include all relevant data and Stata code to replicate the article "When nature calls back: Sustaining behavioral change in rural Pakistan" published at the Journal of Development Economics, Volume 158, September 2022, 102933.

This is Supplementary Data Replication for the paper "Early Childhood Exposure to Health Insurance and Adolescent Outcomes: Evidence from Rural China".

This dataset and associated do file replicates the findings reported in Castells-Quintana, Lopez-Uribe and McDermott (2022) "Population displacement and urban conflict: Global evidence from more than 3300 flood events", published in the Journal of Development Economics. The published article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2022.102922

This file includes data and code that replicate all tables and graphs in « Migration and Co-residence choices: Evidence from Mexico » by Simone Bertoli and Elie Murard, published in the Journal of Development Economics (Volume 142, January 2020, 102330) Please cite this paper if you use this code.

Replication data for "Testing willingness to pay elicitation mechanisms in the field: evidence from Uganda". The datasets and .do files contained in this folder allow replication of figures and tables present in the paper. Detailed information on how to replicate figures and tables are provided in the document ReadMe.pdf

Replication data and code for Arouna, A., Michler, Jeffrey D., and Lokossou, Jourdain C. 2021. "Contract farming and rural transformation: Evidence from a field experiment in Benin." Journal of Development Economics 151: 102626.