Ken Miura

• Notes by Acemoglu and Johnson (2007)

Age heaping pattern can be used as a proxy for numeracy at region level, especially when you work with historical data

• A’Hearn, B., Baten, J., & Crayen, D. (2009). Quantifying quantitative literacy: Age heaping and the history of human capital. The Journal of Economic History, 69(3), 783-808.
• A blog post

• Matlab
  • Statlect
  • Microeconometrics and MATLAB: An Introduction
    • the book website for Microeconometrics and MATLAB: An Introduction (2016, Oxford University Press)
• Maple
  • top 10 mistakes

• by David McKenzie
  • This blog post is based on Abadie et al. (2017)
• by Chris Blattman: this and this
  • Talked about when to use cluster SE for RCT
  • A fantastic follow-up post by John Horton

• The Minorities at Risk (MAR) Project
  • “MAR tracks 284 politically-active ethnic groups throughout the world from 1945 to the present — identifying where they are, what they do, and what happens to them.”
• ACLED

  • “The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated conflict collection, analysis and crisis mapping project.”

• Biografías Líderes Políticos (Only in spanish)

  • biographies of political leader. even if you cannot read Spanish it is very useful to find their birthplace, ethnicity and so on.

• THE VINCENT & ELINOR OSTROM PRIZE
  • public choice society

• Zambia
  • Datafirst
    • Finscope
  • Financial inclusion data
  • MTN phone coverage
• Malawi
• Africa
  • Archigos
    • A Data Base on Leaders 1875 – 2004

• Water Point Data Exchange
  • used by O’Keeffe-O’Donovan, R. (2017). Water, Spillovers and Free Riding: Provision of Local Public Goods in a Spatial Network.
• SEDAC, the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
• ICRAF
• African Renewable Energy Technology Platform – AFRETEP
  • Travel time to major cities, Estimated costs of electricity [Euro/kWh] delivered by a Diesel generator
• Resource watch
  • Fires, maritime boundaries
• Open spatial data links
• SAHIMS ATLAS
  • original link is dead. use wayback machine
    

     

• (1) 内戦→暴力を許容する文化→サッカーの試合での振舞/(2) 暴力を許容する文化→内戦→サッカーの試合での振舞
• この2つのcausal mechanismsの識別は不可能
• 文化と制度は相互に依存しているので、識別が難しい。よくmigrantsが使われるが(文化は引き継いでいるが、直面している制度は一緒との想定)、欧州のサッカーリーグに移籍してきたサッカー選手も一種の移民として考えられる
• 出身国の内戦の歴史(“the number of years a country suffered from civil war between 1980 and 2005” from the PRIO dataset)とイエローカード・レッドカードの枚数の相関
• 年報、移籍金など選手の質を測る変数はビデオゲームから入手
• 偏ったサンプルなのでExternal validityに注意

Ken Miura and Takeshi Sakurai (2015) “The Impact of Formal Insurance Provision on Farmer Behavior: Evidence from Rural Zambia” PRIMCED Discussion Paper No.67. Hitotsubashi University.

Abstract: This study presents empirical evidence of changes in farmer behavior after offering them weather index insurance contracts. To quantify the impacts of insurance on agricultural decision-making, this study makes use of the random allocation of free insurance to small-scale farmers in rural Zambia, while endogenous insurance demands are also investigated. Our empirical results show that the provision of insurance leads farmers to sow maize seeds earlier — a practice known to increase maize yield, but which is riskier in terms of rainfall variability. In addition, it is found that insured farmers enlarge the maize field size and use more fertilizer; that is, the provision of insurance encourages farmers to invest in maize production in a risky environment. We also report suggestive but interesting evidence that weather index insurance could substitute for small-livestock holdings, a conventional self-insurance tool used to mitigate income variation.

この論文は、TEA会の2015年春季研究会で発表されます。