Artisanal or industrial conflict minerals?: evidence from Eastern Congo
In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 122, S. 660-674
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 122, S. 660-674
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In: Published in World Development: 2019, 122, 660-674
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 83, Heft 3, S. 947-960
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Paper published in PLoS ONE: 2018, 13(4), 1-11
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 127, S. 104830
In: Journal of development economics, Band 140, S. 279-301
ISSN: 0304-3878
In: Forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics
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In: Forthcoming in World Development
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In: Journal of development economics, Band 133, S. 326-345
ISSN: 0304-3878
We examine whether gender quotas introduced by development agencies empower women. As part of a development program, an international organization created community management committees in 661 villages to oversee village level program expenditures. In a randomly selected half of these villages the organization required the committees to have gender parity. Using data on project choice from all participating villages, data on decision making in a later development project (105 villages), and data on citizen attitudes (200 villages), we find no evidence that gender parity requirements empower women. We discuss potential reasons for the null result, including weakness of these social interventions in terms of the engagement they generate, their time horizon, and the weak delegation of responsibilities.
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In: Published in Journal of Development Economics: 2018, 133, 326-345
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In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 278-294
ISSN: 0022-0388
In: The journal of development studies, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 278-294
ISSN: 1743-9140
In: Published in Journal of Development Studies: 2017, 53(2), 278-294.
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In: Political analysis: PA ; the official journal of the Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1476-4989
Social scientists generally enjoy substantial latitude in selecting measures and models for hypothesis testing. Coupled with publication and related biases, this latitude raises the concern that researchers may intentionally or unintentionally select models that yield positive findings, leading to an unreliable body of published research. To combat this "fishing" problem in medical studies, leading journals now require preregistration of designs that emphasize the prior identification of dependent and independent variables. However, we demonstrate here that even with this level of advanced specification, the scope for fishing is considerable when there is latitude over selection of covariates, subgroups, and other elements of an analysis plan. These concerns could be addressed through the use of a form of comprehensive registration. We experiment with such an approach in the context of an ongoing field experiment for which we drafted a complete "mock report" of findings using fake data on treatment assignment. We describe the advantages and disadvantages of this form of registration and propose that a comprehensive but nonbinding approach be adopted as a first step to combat fishing by social scientists. Likely effects of comprehensive but nonbinding registration are discussed, the principal advantage being communication rather than commitment, in particular that it generates a clear distinction between exploratory analyses and genuine tests.