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All Weatherhead Center affiliates are invited to submit papers to the Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series. Manuscripts are selected for online distribution based on their relevance to contemporary issues in international affairs, originality of research, rigor of analysis, and significance of conclusions. To inquire about submitting a manuscript, please e-mail publications@wcfia.harvard.edu.

Gender, Intrahousehold Decisionmaking, and the Demand for Children: by Field, Erica M.; Ashraf, Nava; Lee, Jean N.; We present evidence from a field experiment in Lusaka, Zambia that male involvement in the decision to seek out family planning services leads to substantial reductions in utilization....; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 21, 2007 More

Labor Market Rigidities, Trade and Unemployment: by Helpman, Elhanan; Itskhoki, Oleg; We study a two-country two-sector model of international trade in which one sector produces homogeneous products while the other produces differentiated products. The differentiated- product industry...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 17, 2007 More

Congressional Careers, Committee Assignments, and Seniority Randomization in the U.S. House of Representatives: by Shepsle, Kenneth A.; Kellermann, Michael; We consider the effects of the initial assignments of committee seniority on the career outcomes of Democratic members of the House of Representatives from 1949 to 2006. When more than one freshman...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 14, 2007 More

Credit Constraints and the Cyclicality of R&D Investment: Evidence from France: by Aghion, Philippe; Askenazy, Philippe; Berman, Nicolas; We use a French firm-level panel data set over the period 1993-2004 to analyze the relationship between credit constraints and firms' R&D behavior over the business cycle. Our main results can...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2007 More

Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis: by Robinson, James A.; Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Yared, Pierre; This paper revisits and critically reevaluates the widely-accepted modernization hypothesis which claims that per capita income causes the creation and the consolidation of democracy. We argue that...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2007 More

Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa: by Aghion, Philippe; Braun, Matias; Fedderke, Johannes; Using three different panel data sets, we show: (i) that mark-ups are significantly higher in South African manufacturing industries than they are in corresponding industries worldwide; (ii) that...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: August 2007 More

The Senate Electoral Cycle and Bicameral Appropriations Politics: by Shepsle, Kenneth A.; Abrams, Samuel; Van Houweling, Robert; Hanson, Peter; We consider the consequences of the Senate electoral cycle and bicameralism for distributive politics, introducing the concept of contested credit claiming, i.e. that members of a states House and...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 31, 2007 More

Racial Reorganization and the United States Census 1850-1930: Mulattoes, Half-Breeds, Mixed Parentage, Hindoos, and the Mexican: by Hochschild, Jennifer L.; Powell, Brenna M.; Major demographic and political changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries led to a reorganization of the American racial order. The federal census was a significant instrument of...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 17, 2007 More

Many Children Left Behind? Textbooks and Test Scores in Kenya: by Kremer, Michael; Glewwe, Paul; Moulin, Sylvie; A randomized evaluation suggests that a program which provided official textbooks to randomly selected rural Kenyan primary schools did not increase test scores for the average student. In contrast,...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2007 More

Parochial Politics: Ethnic Preferences and Politician Corruption: by Pande, Rohini; Banerjee, Abhijit; This paper examines how increased voter ethnicization, defined as a greater preference for the party representing one's ethnic group, affects politician quality. If politics is characterized...; Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper; Published Date: July 2007 More

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