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Dec 11, 2014
Bazzi, Samuel; Blattman, Christopher, 2014, "Replication data for: Economic Shocks and Conflict: The (Absence of?) Evidence from Commodity Prices", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28140, Harvard Dataverse, V1
One of the most influential ideas in the study of political instability is that income shocks provoke conflict. “State prize” theories argue that higher revenues increase incentives to capture the state. “Opportunity cost” theories argue that higher prices decrease individual incentives to revolt. Both mechanisms are central to leading models of st... |
Dec 11, 2014
Wheeler, David, 2014, "Replication data for: Fair Shares: Crediting Poor Countries for Carbon Mitigation", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28148, Harvard Dataverse, V1
This paper computes national carbon mitigation costs using two simple principles: (1) Incremental costs for low-carbon energy investments are calculated using the cost of coal-fired power as the benchmark. (2) All low-carbon energy sources are counted, because reducing carbon emissions cannot be separated from other concerns: reducing local air pol... |
Dec 11, 2014
McCarthy, Owen; Over, Mead, 2014, "Projecting the Future Budgetary Cost of AIDS Treatment in Poor Countries: A Manual for the AIDSCost Computer Programs", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28159, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Every year, UNAIDS releases updated estimates of the number of people living with HIV and AIDS and the mortality impact of the epidemic, while WHO releases data on the number of people on treatment and the number needing treatment. This dataset, from CGD senior fellow Mead Over and Owen McCarthy, is a compilation of selected variables from these pu... |
Dec 11, 2014
Kapstein, Ethan B.; Converse, Nathan, 2014, "The Fate of Young Democracies", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28160, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Why do some young democracies fail? Drawing on a unique data set of every democratization episode since 1960, The Fate of Young Democracies explores the underlying reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world’s fledgling democracies and offers proposals for ways that the international community can help these states stay on track toward politi... |
Dec 11, 2014
Duran, Denizhan; Glassman, Amanda, 2014, "Replication data for: An Index of the Quality of Official Development Assistance in Health", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28135, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Health is one of the largest and most complex aid sectors: 16 percent of all aid went to the health sector in 2009. While many stress the importance of aid effectiveness, there are limited quantitative analyses of the quality of health aid. In this paper, we apply Birdsall and Kharas'ÃÂs Quality of Official Development Assistance (QuODA) methodol... |
Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, Justin, 2014, "Replication data for: The High Returns to Private Schooling in a Low-Income Country", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28145, Harvard Dataverse, V1
Existing studies from the United States, Latin America, and Asia provide scant evidence that private schools dramatically improve academic performance relative to public schools. Using data from Kenya—a poor country with weak public institutions—we find a large effect of private schooling on test scores, equivalent to one full standard deviation. T... |
Dec 11, 2014
Easterly, William; Levine, Ross; Roodman, David, 2014, "Replication data for: New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth"", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28165, Harvard Dataverse, V1
CGD working paper 26, New Data, New Doubts: Revisiting "Aid, Policies, and Growth, by CGD non-resident fellow William Easterly, research fellow David Roodman, and Ross Levine (also published as "Aid, Policies, and Growth: Comment" in the American Economic Review, June 2004), concludes that the Burnside and Dollar (2000) finding that aid raises grow... |
Dec 11, 2014
Clemens, Michael A.; Demombynes, Gabriel, 2014, "Replication data for: When Does Rigorous Impact Evaluation Make a Difference? The Case of the Millennium Villages", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28146, Harvard Dataverse, V1
When is the rigorous impact evaluation of development projects a luxury, and when a necessity? We study one high-profile case: the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), an experimental and intensive package intervention to spark sustained local economic development in rural Africa. We illustrate the benefits of rigorous impact evaluation in this setti... |
Dec 11, 2014
Fan, Victoria; Silverman, Rachel; Roodman, David; Savedoff, William, 2014, "Peer Review of Social Science Research in Global Health: A View Through Correspondence Letters to The Lancet", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28144, Harvard Dataverse, V1
In recent years, the interdisciplinary nature of global health has blurred the lines between medicine and social science. As medical journals publish non-experimental research articles on social policies or macro-level interventions, controversies have arisen when social scientists have criticized the rigor and quality of medical journal articles,... |
Dec 11, 2014
Bold, Tessa; Kimenyi, Mwangi; Mwabu, Germano; Sandefur, Justin, 2014, "Replication data for: Why Did Abolishing Fees Not Increase Public School Enrollment in Kenya?", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/28147, Harvard Dataverse, V1
A large empirical literature has shown that user fees significantly deter public service utilization in developing countries. While most of these results reflect partial equilibrium analysis, we find that the nationwide abolition of public school fees in Kenya in 2003 led to no increase in net public enrollment rates, but rather a dramatic shift to... |
