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{"title":"Fiscal Consolidation and Firm Growth in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Data","authors":"Hildebrando Pahula, Sailesh Tanna, Glauco De Vita","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2265523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2265523","url":null,"abstract":"Despite a longstanding debate around the economic effects of fiscal consolidation policies, relatively few studies have focused on developing countries, and even fewer have paid attention to the growth implications at firm level. Using a unique narrative dataset based on contemporaneous policy documents to identify changes in fiscal policy aimed at reducing the accumulation of public debt, we investigate the effects of fiscal consolidation on the growth of 118,279 firms in 98 developing countries from 2006 to 2018. The results indicate that a one percentage point increase in fiscal consolidation as a share of GDP leads, on average, to a decline in firm growth of 3.97 percentage points. This decline is reduced when consolidation is large. We also find that debt-driven consolidation based on tax hikes is more contractionary than that based on spending cuts, though this contractionary effect is mitigated when spending cuts exceed 1.5 percent of GDP. While the negative effect of fiscal consolidation on firm performance is more pronounced in large and non-exporting firms, the effect is not statistically important in low-debt-risk developing countries.","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136208972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failure of the Dependent Visa Program <b>The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failure of the Dependent Visa Program</b> By Pallavi Banerjee <i>New York</i> <i>:</i> <i>New York University Press</i> , 2022, 321 pp., E-Book (free), $89.00 (hardcover), $32.00 (paperback), ISBN (e-Book): 978-1-479-82515-8, ISBN (Hardcover): 978-1-479-85291-8, ISBN (Paperback): 978-1-479-84104-2","authors":"Smitha Radhakrishnan","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2264445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2264445","url":null,"abstract":"\"The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families and the Failure of the Dependent Visa Program.\" The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–3","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135591192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road <b>The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road</b> By Xin Wen <i>Princeton, NJ</i> <i>:</i> <i>Princeton University Press</i> , 2022, 400 pp., $49.95 (hardcover), $34.97 (e-book). ISBN 978-0-691-23783-1","authors":"Federico Jensen","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2262799","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2262799","url":null,"abstract":"\"The King’s Road: Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Silk Road.\" The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–3","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135718958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Is There a Gender Gap in Health among Migrants in Russia?","authors":"Sandra Pellet, Marine de Talancé","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2253986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2253986","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study investigates whether there is a gender gap in health among migrants. Focusing on migrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Russia, where there are high levels of both immigration and gender inequality, this paper exploits unique data collected by the authors recording detailed information on health and migration trajectories. We find that migrant women are on average in poorer health than migrant men. This gender gap is only partly explained by gender differences in observed socioeconomic, demographic, living and working characteristics and differences in pre-migration health. We show that migrant women’s health is more likely than men’s to deteriorate during migration. This women’s health disadvantage is sensitive to the migration profile, as it only appears after a certain time spent migrating and for migrants with a vulnerable legal status. These results call for targeted public health policies to address this gender health gap.Keywords: Health disparitiesmigrationgenderRussia CentralAsiaJEL CODES: F22I12I14J16 AcknowledgmentsWe are very grateful to all the members of REFPoM project who had a meaningful role at each step of the process (J. Cleuziou, C. Marteau d’Autry, C. Doutement, L. Direnberger and A. Zevaco). We are also very thankful to V. Mukomel and E. Kasimskaya for their precious advises in the field. We are very grateful to M. Guillot and M. Khlat for their postdoctoral support and their meaningful insights on migrant health issues. We thank all the discussants and the participants to the seminars where we had the chance to present this article despite the sanitary situation. In particular, we are very grateful to T. Barnay, M. Ben Salem, S. Juin and Y. Videau (ERUDITE seminar), to F. Jusot, L. Goldzhal and D. Mignon (LEDa-LEGOS seminar), to M. Leturq, E. Cambois, M. Segù, G. Duthé and Sophie Le Coeur (INED), to I. Chort (TREE seminar), to I. Ohayon and J. Thorez (EHESS seminar on Central Asia) and all other participants. We also thank the participants of the 2021 International Conference in Development Economics, the 37th Applied Microeconomics Days, the 69th Congress of the French Economic Association, the Population Association of America 2021 Annual Meeting and the Women on the Move workshop for their useful feedback. We thank the French Collaborative Institute on Migration for the fellowship and the members of the DYNAMICS department for the inspirational research discussions. Finally, we are very grateful to the referees for their precious comments that helped to significantly improve the quality and clarity of the article. An older version of this manuscript were deposited on an academic website as a preprint for non-commercial purposes.Footnote13Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Data availability statementIn accordance with the editorial policy we are making available to the readers the programs that gave rise to the following results, which can be found on","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135768748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss among Syrian Labourers in BeirutRebel Populism: Revolution and Loss among Syrian Labourers in Beirut By Philip ProudfootManchester: Manchester University Press, 2022, 232 pp., £85.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5261-5810-9","authors":"Fuad Musallam","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2259616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2259616","url":null,"abstract":"\"Rebel Populism: Revolution and Loss among Syrian Labourers in Beirut.\" The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–3","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136237121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia <b>From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia</b> By Dan Slater and Joseph Wong <i>Princeton, NJ</i> <i>:</i> <i>Princeton University Press</i> , 2022. $35.00/£30.00 (hardback), $24.50/£21.00 (e-book), ISBN:9780691167602","authors":"Nahee Kang","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2260051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2260051","url":null,"abstract":"\"From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia.\" The Journal of Development Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–3","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136237687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Persistent Agricultural Shocks and Child Poverty","authors":"Ray Miller, Lackson D. Mudenda, Ashish K. Sedai","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2253977","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2253977","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractThis study shows how persistent agricultural shocks in Ethiopia affect education, health and labor outcomes through a time-use study of young people aged 5-22. Leveraging five rounds of the Young Lives Study from 2002-2016, we use dynamic panel instrumental variable regressions to account for the unobserved heterogeneity and serial correlation in the estimation. Agricultural shocks significantly reduce schooling participation and time spent in schooling, deteriorate health, and increase both labor force participation and labor time. Household wealth acts as a buffer and mitigates the adverse effects of shocks on schooling. Interestingly, children from wealthier households have a higher likelihood of joining agricultural labor during shocks, but their intensity of child labor is significantly lower compared to poorer households.Keywords: agricultureshockslaboreducationwealthtime useJel Codes: D13I20I25I31 Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 For more details, see Beegle et al. (Citation2006); Singh and Vennam (Citation2016); Jensen (Citation2000); Zimmermann (Citation2012); Adhvaryu and Nyshadham (Citation2016); Andalón, Azevedo, Rodríguez-Castelán, Sanfelice, and Valderrama-González (Citation2016); Currie and Hyson (Citation1999); Buckles and Hungerman (Citation2013); Cornwell and Inder (Citation2015); Feeny, Mishra, Trinh, Ye, and Zhu (Citation2021); Agamile and Lawson (Citation2021); Giles and Yoo (Citation2007); Shah and Steinberg (Citation2017).2 Link to the report: International Labor Organization, 2020. The report states that the “agriculture sector accounts for 70 percent of children in child labor (112 million) globally”.3 Child health data is only available for the last three waves of the survey (2009, 2013 and 2016). All other health measures, except anthropometric measures, are available less frequently compared to the child’s general health status4 Although the samples are not statistically representative of the national population – as poorer regions were over-sampled – comparisons with nationally representative data sets (DHS, LSMS, etc.) show that they reflect the heterogeneity of ethnicity, religion and living standards in each of the study countries (Outes-Leon & Sanchez, Citation2008).5 The effects estimated in the paper pertain to shocks that occurred sometime over the previous four years (roughly).6 Note that we do not control for BMI when analyzing the effects of agricultural shocks on child health, as BMI is a critical determinant of child health and is strongly correlated with pre-natal conditions such as mother’s BMI, food security and obesity (Dinku, Mekonnen, & Adilu, Citation2020; Kassie & Workie, Citation2020; Kedir, Citation2009).7 The estimator assumes a constant treatment effect across groups and over time, and estimates that effect under the standard “common trends” assumption.8 See Stata’s xtdpd command for further details on the linear dynamic panel es","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135149179","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Social Spillovers of Parental Absence: The Classroom Peer Effects of ‘Left-behind’ Children on Household Human Capital Investments in Rural China","authors":"Xiaodong Zheng, Yanran Zhou","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2255719","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2255719","url":null,"abstract":"AbstractWhile the human capital consequences of rural-to-urban migration on left-behind children have been well-documented in developing countries, there is limited evidence regarding the social spillovers of parental migration on households without parent-child separation. This study investigates the effects of migration-induced left-behind children on household human capital investments in their non-left-behind peers. Leveraging the random student-class assignment within middle schools in rural China, we find that the share of left-behind children in class has significant negative impacts on household financial and time investments in non-left-behind classmates, especially out-of-school education expenditure. We also find heterogeneous effects demonstrating that the adverse spillovers are relatively larger among students who are boys, in grade nine, and from low socioeconomic status families. Further, our results suggest that exposure to left-behind classmates adversely affects non-left-behind students’ perceived quality of school life, cognitive and noncognitive skills, and their parents’ beliefs about returns of human capital investments. We interpret these findings as candidate mechanisms underlying the associations between parental absence and household investments in non-left-behind children. Our study sheds new light on the ‘costs’ of rural-to-urban migration in sending areas, which include not only welfare loss to families being left behind but negative spillover effects on non-left-behind households.Keywords: parental absenceleft-behind childrenhousehold human capital investmentspeer effectsrural China AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank anonymous referees and editors for their constructive comments. The data and codes used for this study are available upon request.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 See Zheng et al. (Citation2022) for a literature review on the effects of parental migration on the short- and long-term human capital of left-behind children.2 See Supplementary Materials for more details about the sampling design of the CEPS.3 Given that the individual himself is removed from the ‘urn’ (the same grade) from which his peers are chosen, the peers for LBC are selected from a group with a slightly lower proportion of LBC than the peers for non-LBC. As a result, there is a mechanical negative relationship between one’s left-behind status and the share of LBC of randomly-assigned peers. According to Guryan et al. (Citation2009), such a bias could be corrected by simply controlling for the proportion of LBC of all individuals in the ‘urn’.4 The kernel distribution and descriptive statistics of class-level LBC proportion are shown in Supplementary Materials Figure S1.5 We conduct seemingly unrelated estimations for the subsamples and statistically test the between-group differences in coefficients of the LBC variable (the proportion of LBC in a class).6 Using the p","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135784500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Politics of Taxation and Tax Reform in Times of Crisis: Covid-19 and Attitudes towards Taxation in Sierra Leone","authors":"Nicolas Orgeira Pillai, Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2255717","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2255717","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Impact of Input Trade Liberalization on the Entry of Foreign Firms: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China","authors":"Qilin Mao, Jiayun Xu","doi":"10.1080/00220388.2023.2253984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2023.2253984","url":null,"abstract":"This paper integrates trade policy and foreign direct investment into a unified analytical framework, and investigates the effects of input trade liberalization on the entry of foreign firms. To identify the causal effects, we utilize China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 as a quasi-natural experiment, and perform difference-in-difference estimation. The results show that input trade liberalization significantly increases foreign entry. We also find that input trade liberalization not only promotes the entry of new foreign firms, but also restrains the exit of existing foreign firms, thereby contributing to the net growth of the number of foreign firms. The mechanism tests show that increasing variety as well as quality of intermediate input and reduction in marginal cost are the potential channels through which input trade liberalization promotes foreign entry. This paper further demonstrates that institutional environment strengths the positive effect of input trade liberalization on foreign entry, and the promotive effect of input trade liberalization on foreign entry increases with industry import intensity, additionally, input trade liberalization is also conducive to improving the quality of foreign investment.","PeriodicalId":48295,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Development Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135981351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}