BREAD Working Paper No. 581, October 2020

Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan, Xiaobo Zhang Abstract This paper examines resilience of Chinese firms to the Covid-19 shock, and how it varied with a cluster index (measuring spatial agglomeration of firms in related industries) at the county level. Two data sources are […]

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April 11, 2021
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BREAD Working Paper No. 587, February 2021

Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation Joshua W. Deutschmann, Laura Schechter, Molly Lipscomb, Jessica Zhu Abstract We run a randomized controlled trial coupled with lab-in-the-field social network experiments in urban Dakar. Decision spillovers and health externalities play a large role in determining uptake of sanitation technology, with decision spillovers being largest among households that don’t […]

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March 29, 2021
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