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Genocide, women’s empowerment, and intergenerational transmission of violent attitudes 种族灭绝、赋予妇女权力和暴力态度的代际传递
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107266
Daniel Kammer , Alina Greiner-Filsinger
In this paper, we explore how mass violence shapes attitudes on violence against children, and we examine how these attitudes are transmitted across generations in the context of the Rwandan genocide. We exploit spatial variation in genocide intensity from the Gacaca records and temporal variation in women’s timing of socialization from three rounds of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) in a difference-in-differences framework and find that younger women from regions more affected by genocide hold less violent attitudes compared to their peers from less-affected regions. Using an instrumental variable approach to estimate the transmission effect, we also show that descendants of these younger women from regions more affected by genocide are similarly less likely to develop violent attitudes. We provide evidence that genocide-induced women’s empowerment is the underlying mechanism. As such, our findings underscore previous evidence on the conflict–prosociality link by showing that mass violence can catalyze progressive norm change across generations, but also call for a more detailed investigation of the underlying adaptation mechanisms of the second generation.
在本文中,我们探讨了大规模暴力如何塑造对暴力侵害儿童的态度,并研究了这些态度是如何在卢旺达种族灭绝的背景下代代相传的。我们利用Gacaca记录中种族灭绝强度的空间差异和三轮人口与健康调查(DHS)中妇女社会化时间的时间差异,在差异中的差异框架中发现,与受种族灭绝影响较轻地区的同龄人相比,来自受种族灭绝影响较大地区的年轻妇女持较少的暴力态度。使用工具变量方法来估计传播效应,我们还表明,来自受种族灭绝影响更大地区的这些年轻女性的后代同样不太可能形成暴力态度。我们提供的证据表明,种族灭绝导致的妇女赋权是潜在的机制。因此,我们的研究结果强调了先前关于冲突-亲社会关系的证据,表明大规模暴力可以促进代际规范的进步变化,但也需要对第二代人的潜在适应机制进行更详细的调查。
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Conflicts and prosocial preferences 冲突和亲社会偏好
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107264
Dawoon Jung
How economic agents’ preferences—such as individual time preferences, risk preferences, and prosocial preferences—are formed is a central question in economics, with important implications for understanding decision-making behavior. This study examines the nonlinear effect of conflict exposure on prosocial preferences, measured using “tax game” survey questions from the 2008 Aceh Reintegration and Livelihood Survey (ARLS). Leveraging variation in individual conflict exposure during one of the longest-lasting conflicts in recent history in Aceh, Indonesia, the analysis reveals a nonlinear relationship between conflict intensity and individuals’ willingness to contribute to public goods. Specifically, contributions decrease as conflict exposure intensifies up to a certain threshold, beyond which contributions increase. These findings are robust to alternative measures of conflict exposure and the inclusion of relevant control variables, providing consistent evidence of the nonlinear association.
经济主体的偏好——如个人时间偏好、风险偏好和亲社会偏好——是如何形成的,这是经济学中的一个核心问题,对理解决策行为具有重要意义。本研究考察了冲突暴露对亲社会偏好的非线性影响,使用2008年亚齐重返社会和生计调查(ARLS)中的“税收游戏”调查问题进行测量。在印度尼西亚亚齐省近代史上持续时间最长的冲突之一中,利用个人冲突暴露程度的差异,分析揭示了冲突强度与个人为公共产品做出贡献的意愿之间的非线性关系。具体来说,当冲突暴露加剧到某一阈值时,捐款就会减少,超过这个阈值捐款就会增加。这些发现对于冲突暴露和相关控制变量的替代测量是稳健的,为非线性关联提供了一致的证据。
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Catastrophe’s long reach: How historical natural disasters shape modern entrepreneurship? 灾难的长期影响:历史上的自然灾害如何塑造现代企业家精神?
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-12-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107277
Weihua Yu , Jinfei Niu , Xin Yao , Chenchen Deng
The interaction between historical adversity and the evolution of culture traits can leave a long-lasting imprint on contemporary economic outcomes. This paper investigates the enduring impact of historical natural disasters during China’s Ming and Qing dynasties on modern entrepreneurship. We find that individuals originating from regions with higher density of historical natural disasters show a reduced inclination towards entrepreneurship, which could be attributed to the negative effects of historical disasters on the risk-taking attitude, cultivation of interpersonal trust, and human capital investment. These results remain consistent after utilizing both the regression discontinuity method and IV approach to address endogeneity concerns. Overall, these insights not only highlight the persistent historical legacy in shaping the spirit of modern entrepreneurial endeavors, but also shed light on the broader, long-term economic impacts of climate change.
历史逆境与文化特征演变之间的相互作用可能对当代经济结果留下持久的印记。本文考察了中国明清两代历史自然灾害对现代企业家精神的持久影响。研究发现,来自历史自然灾害密度较高地区的个体创业倾向降低,这可能与历史灾害对风险承担态度、人际信任培养和人力资本投资的负面影响有关。在使用回归不连续方法和IV方法来解决内生性问题后,这些结果保持一致。总的来说,这些见解不仅突出了塑造现代创业精神的持久历史遗产,而且还揭示了气候变化对更广泛、长期的经济影响。
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Empathy in action: unravelling crowdfunding dynamics for female refugee entrepreneurs in Lebanon, Jordan, and Palestine 行动中的同理心:揭示黎巴嫩、约旦和巴勒斯坦女性难民企业家的众筹动态
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-12-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107268
Ricardo Emanuel-Correia , Syahirah Abdul-Rahman , Doaa Althalathini
Crowdfunding has become a vital tool for bridging funding gaps, particularly for marginalised groups such as women and refugee entrepreneurs. This study aims to investigate the impact of entrepreneur gender and sectorial dominance on crowdfunding outcomes for female and male refugees, using the lens of sector studies and Role Congruity Theory. To empirically test our hypotheses, we gathered data about refugee entrepreneurs who seek capital for their business ventures on the Kiva crowdfunded microfinance platform. Our research highlights the unique challenges faced by female refugee entrepreneurs, including discriminatory financing practices and lack of formal documentation. However, crowdfunding platforms like Kiva offer crucial financial access, outperforming traditional financial institutions. We found that female refugee entrepreneurs often outperform their male counterparts in crowdfunding, especially in male-dominated activities. Moreover, campaigns located in refugee camps show positive crowdfunding outcomes, emphasising the value of these settings for women-led initiatives. Overall, crowdfunding offers a promising alternative for female refugees, overcoming significant barriers to entrepreneurship in both refugee camps and broader contexts, as well as providing implications for enhancing financial inclusion and supporting gender equity in entrepreneurial spaces.
众筹已成为弥补资金缺口的重要工具,特别是对妇女和难民企业家等边缘化群体而言。本研究旨在利用部门研究和角色一致性理论的视角,调查企业家性别和部门主导对女性和男性难民众筹结果的影响。为了从经验上验证我们的假设,我们收集了难民企业家在Kiva众筹小额信贷平台上为他们的企业寻求资金的数据。我们的研究突出了女性难民企业家面临的独特挑战,包括歧视性融资做法和缺乏正式文件。然而,像Kiva这样的众筹平台提供了至关重要的金融渠道,其表现优于传统金融机构。我们发现,女性难民企业家在众筹方面的表现往往优于男性企业家,尤其是在男性主导的活动中。此外,在难民营开展的活动显示出积极的众筹成果,强调了这些环境对妇女领导的倡议的价值。总体而言,众筹为女性难民提供了一个有希望的选择,克服了难民营和更广泛背景下创业的重大障碍,并为加强金融包容性和支持创业空间中的性别平等提供了影响。
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Can corporate good deeds reduce environmental injustice? Evidence from China 企业的善行能减少环境不公吗?来自中国的证据
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107265
Chunxiao Wang , Yu Hao
This study explores the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in enhancing environmental justice. We argue that CSR helps mitigate environmental injustice, a responsibility stemming from ethical considerations faced by corporations. Furthermore, building on previous studies that identify income disparity as the key factor contributing to environmental injustice, we find that regional economic growth, poverty alleviation among the rural poor, and the enhancement of political power are the primary channels through which CSR influences environmental justice. An analysis of Chinese listed companies provides evidence supporting our view, revealing a more pronounced mitigating effect of CSR on environmental injustice in non-state-owned, environmentally friendly, and large-scale firms. Notably, this contribution of CSR to environmental justice is more evident in the economically developed eastern region of China, which boasts a high level of marketization and a favorable business environment. This highlights the substantive role of CSR in environmental justice. By incorporating CSR into environmental justice studies, our research makes a meaningful theoretical advancement in understanding corporate ethical responsibilities and offers practical implications.
本研究探讨企业社会责任(CSR)在促进环境正义中的作用。我们认为,企业社会责任有助于减轻环境不公正,这是一种源于企业面临的道德考虑的责任。此外,在以往研究认为收入差距是导致环境不公正的关键因素的基础上,我们发现区域经济增长、农村贫困人口的脱贫和政治权力的增强是企业社会责任影响环境正义的主要渠道。对中国上市公司的分析提供了支持我们观点的证据,表明非国有企业、环境友好型企业和大型企业的企业社会责任对环境不公平的缓解作用更为明显。值得注意的是,企业社会责任对环境正义的贡献在中国经济发达的东部地区更为明显,该地区具有较高的市场化程度和良好的商业环境。这凸显了企业社会责任在环境正义中的实质性作用。通过将企业社会责任纳入环境正义研究,我们的研究在理解企业伦理责任方面取得了有意义的理论进步,并具有现实意义。
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Identification of earnings dynamics using rotating samples over short periods: the case of Chile 短期内使用轮换样本识别盈余动态:智利的案例
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107253
Carlos Madeira
Due to high informality and sparse longitudinal data, empirical studies often ignore labor income dynamics in developing economies, where earnings inequality is highest and social insurance is weakest. I propose a dynamic earnings process with two distinct shocks: unemployment spells and the wages of workers who stay employed. This income process can be estimated from employment surveys with a rotating sample design, which are available for several countries. Applying this procedure to Chilean data, I show that wage volatility and unemployment rates are highly heterogeneous across workers. Unemployment spells are the most important source of earnings risk for workers.
由于高度的非正式性和稀疏的纵向数据,实证研究往往忽略了发展中经济体的劳动收入动态,而发展中经济体的收入不平等程度最高,社会保险最薄弱。我提出了一个动态的收入过程,其中有两个不同的冲击:失业期和保持就业的工人的工资。这一收入过程可以通过轮换抽样设计的就业调查来估计,这种调查可用于若干国家。将这一过程应用到智利的数据中,我发现工资波动和失业率在工人之间是高度异质的。失业期是工人收入风险的最重要来源。
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Estimating dynamic macroeconomic effects of exogenous remittances 估计外生汇款的动态宏观经济影响
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107252
Markus Brueckner , Sudyumna Dahal , Haiyan Lin
We use a local projection instrumental variable approach to estimate dynamic macroeconomic effects of temporary, exogenous remittance shocks. We identify exogenous remittance shocks by instrumenting remittances with the migrant-share-weighted GDP per capita of migrants’ destination countries. Impulse response functions show that the identified remittance shock is temporary and that it has a significant positive effect on remittance-recipient countries’ real GDP per capita on impact, and cumulatively over the medium term, e.g. over periods of 5 and 10 years. Household consumption and investment significantly increase while the ratio of net exports over GDP decreases. We also find that the increase in exogenous remittances causes a significant increase in external debt and a significant decrease, on impact, in the external debt servicing cost as a fraction of GNI. Our empirical results are consistent with the predictions of the model by Bahadir et al. (2018) for the case in which an exogenous, temporary remittance inflow accrues to credit-constrained entrepreneurs.
我们使用本地预测工具变量方法来估计临时性外生汇款冲击的动态宏观经济影响。我们通过将汇款与移民目的地国的移民份额加权人均GDP挂钩来识别外源性汇款冲击。脉冲响应函数表明,所确定的汇款冲击是暂时的,它对汇款接受国的实际人均国内生产总值具有显著的积极影响,并且在中期,例如在5年和10年期间累积。家庭消费和投资显著增加,净出口占GDP的比例下降。我们还发现,外生汇款的增加导致外债大幅增加,而外债还本付息成本占国民总收入的比例则显著下降。我们的实证结果与Bahadir等人(2018)的模型预测一致,在这种情况下,外生的、临时的汇款流入会增加到信贷受限的企业家。
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Why embracing uncertainty means rethinking development 为什么拥抱不确定性意味着重新思考发展
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107256
Ian Scoones
Uncertainty – where we don’t know what the future will hold – dominates our world. Climate change, natural disasters, pandemics and financial systems are characterised by deep uncertainties, even ignorance. Yet development efforts try to control, manage, plan and order the world in ways that often backfire. In an age of uncertainty, we need to ask whether development should be a project of control, often drawing on formal expertise and creating order through top-down intervention, or one of flexible, responsive, adaptive caring This Insights essay will explore the implications of taking uncertainty seriously, examining the implications for how we approach perhaps the biggest development challenge of all: adapting to climate change.
不确定性——我们不知道未来会怎样——主宰着我们的世界。气候变化、自然灾害、流行病和金融体系的特点是高度不确定性,甚至是无知。然而,发展努力试图以往往适得其反的方式控制、管理、计划和秩序世界。在一个不确定的时代,我们需要问,发展是否应该是一个控制项目,经常利用正式的专业知识,通过自上而下的干预创造秩序,或者是一个灵活的、响应性的、适应性的关怀。本文将探讨认真对待不确定性的影响,研究我们如何应对最大的发展挑战:适应气候变化。
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Corrigendum to “Firebreaks as indigenous knowledge system and cultural practice: an emerging counternarrative in forest fire governance” [World Dev. 198 (2026) 107224] “防火作为土著知识体系和文化实践:森林火灾治理中的新兴反叙事”的勘误表[世界发展]. 198 (2026)107224]
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107267
Diana Suhardiman , Chaya Vaddhanaphuti , Saw Sha Bwe Moo , Paul Sein Twa
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Armed conflict, community-based cash transfers, and social cohesion: Evidence from a randomized intervention in Ethiopia 武装冲突、社区现金转移和社会凝聚力:来自埃塞俄比亚随机干预的证据
IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Pub Date : 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2025.107249
Halefom Yigzaw Nigus , Kibrom A. Abay , Martin Paul Jr. Tabe-Ojong
Amid a surge in armed conflicts in Africa, the impact of armed conflicts on social cohesion and potential avenues to rebuild social cohesion in conflict-affected settings remain active areas of inquiry. Most importantly, identifying instruments and interventions that can effectively strengthen social cohesion in conflict-affected settings can inform and facilitate peace-building efforts. We examine whether community-based cash transfer and social protection programs can strengthen social cohesion in settings grappling with the adverse effects of armed conflict. We answer this question using the 2020 civil war in Ethiopia and combining this with a randomized community-based cash transfer program rolled out after the conflict. Exploiting temporal variation in the spread of large-scale armed conflicts (battles) across a two-wave panel survey, we show that battles are associated with a deterioration in social cohesion. Reassuringly, we demonstrate that a modestly sized community-based cash transfer can rebuild and restore social cohesion in communities grappling with armed conflict and deterioration in social cohesion. Heterogeneity analysis shows that households who belong to a minority ethnic group in each community reported a higher loss in social capital associated with their exposure to armed conflict and that the community-based cash transfer appears to be more effective in rebuilding social cohesion among these households.
在非洲武装冲突激增的情况下,武装冲突对社会凝聚力的影响以及在受冲突影响的环境中重建社会凝聚力的潜在途径仍然是积极的研究领域。最重要的是,确定能够在受冲突影响的环境中有效加强社会凝聚力的手段和干预措施,可以为建设和平的努力提供信息和促进。我们研究了以社区为基础的现金转移支付和社会保护项目是否能够在努力应对武装冲突不利影响的环境中加强社会凝聚力。我们以2020年埃塞俄比亚内战为例来回答这个问题,并将其与冲突后推出的随机社区现金转移计划相结合。利用大规模武装冲突(战斗)在两波面板调查中传播的时间变化,我们表明战斗与社会凝聚力的恶化有关。令人欣慰的是,我们证明,在遭受武装冲突和社会凝聚力恶化困扰的社区,适度规模的社区现金转移可以重建和恢复社会凝聚力。异质性分析表明,每个社区中属于少数民族的家庭报告的与武装冲突相关的社会资本损失更高,而以社区为基础的现金转移似乎在重建这些家庭之间的社会凝聚力方面更有效。
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