{"id":26307,"global_id":"www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=26307","global_id_lineage":["www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=26307"],"author":"7","status":"publish","date":"2016-03-16 11:29:05","date_utc":"2016-03-16 02:29:05","modified":"2016-03-16 11:29:05","modified_utc":"2016-03-16 02:29:05","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/event\/20160318\/","rest_url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/events\/26307","title":"Kyoto University Asian Economic Development Seminar","description":"

Date<\/strong>: 18th Friday, March 2016
\nVenue<\/strong>: Basement Floor, “Mizuho Hall”, Faculty of Law and Faculty of
\nEconomics, East Bldg. Yoshida Campus, (No.5 building in the map)
\nhttp:\/\/www.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/access\/yoshida\/main.html<\/a>
\nLanguage<\/strong>: English<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Munir Squires (LSE)
\n“Kinship Taxation as a Constraint to Microenterprise Growth:
\nExperimental Evidence from Kenya”<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>:
\nDeveloping country entrepreneurs face family pressure to share income.
\nThis pressure, a kinship tax, can distort capital allocations. I combine
\nevidence from a lab experiment-which allows me to estimate an
\nindividual-level sufficient statistic for the distortion-with data I
\ncollected on a sample of Kenyan entrepreneurs, to quantify the
\nimportance of the tax. My data reveal high kinship tax rates for a third
\nof entrepreneurs in my sample. My quantitative analysis makes use of a
\nsimple structural model of input allocation fitted to my data, and
\nimplies that removing distortions from kinship taxation would increase
\ntotal factor productivity by 26%, and increase the share of workers in
\nfirms with five or more employees from 9% to 56%. These effects are
\nsubstantially larger than those coming from credit market distortions,
\nwhich I estimate using a cash transfer RCT. My analysis also implies
\nstrong complementarities between kinship taxation and credit constraints.<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

R\u00e9ka Juh\u00e1sz (Princeton Univ. & Columbia Univ. )
\n“Temporary Protection and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the
\nNapoleonic Blockade”<\/p>\n

Abstract<\/strong>:
\nThis paper uses a natural experiment to assess whether temporary
\nprotection from trade with industrial leaders can foster development of
\ninfant industries in follower countries. Using a new dataset compiled
\nfrom primary sources, I find that in the short-run regions
\n(d\u00e9partements) in the French Empire which became better protected from
\ntrade with the British for exogenous reasons during the Napoleonic Wars
\n(1803-15) increased capacity in a new technology, mechanised cotton
\nspinning, to a larger extent than regions which remained more exposed to
\ntrade. Temporary protection had long term effects. In particular, by
\nexploiting the fact that the post-war location of the cotton industry
\nwas determined to a large extent by the historical accident of the wars,
\nI first show that the location of cotton spinning within France was
\npersistent, and firms located in regions with higher post-war spinning
\ncapacity were more productive 30 years later. Second, I find that after
\nthe restoration of peace, exports of cotton goods from France increased
\nsubstantially, consistent with evolving comparative advantage in
\ncottons. Third, I show that as late as 1850, France and Belgium – both
\npart of the French Empire prior to 1815 – had larger cotton spinning
\nindustries than other Continental European countries which were not
\nprotected from British trade during the wars; this suggests that
\nadoption of the new technology was far from inevitable.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Contact<\/strong>:
\nMieno, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, mieno-lab[at]cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
\nYano, Kono, Souksavan, Graduate School of Economics<\/p>","excerpt":"","slug":"20160318","image":false,"all_day":false,"start_date":"2016-03-18 03:00:00","start_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"18","hour":"03","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"end_date":"2016-03-18 18:00:00","end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"18","hour":"18","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_start_date":"2016-03-17 18:00:00","utc_start_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"17","hour":"18","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"utc_end_date":"2016-03-18 09:00:00","utc_end_date_details":{"year":"2016","month":"03","day":"18","hour":"09","minutes":"00","seconds":"00"},"timezone":"Asia\/Tokyo","timezone_abbr":"JST","cost":"","cost_details":{"currency_symbol":"","currency_position":"prefix","values":[]},"website":"","show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"hide_from_listings":false,"sticky":false,"featured":false,"categories":[{"name":"Special Seminar","slug":"special-seminar","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":32,"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","description":"","parent":0,"count":106,"filter":"raw","id":32,"urls":{"self":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories\/32","collection":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/wp-json\/tribe\/events\/v1\/categories"}}],"tags":[],"venue":{"id":26308,"author":"7","status":"publish","date":"2016-03-16 11:29:05","date_utc":"2016-03-16 02:29:05","modified":"2016-03-16 11:29:05","modified_utc":"2016-03-16 02:29:05","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/venue\/basement-floor-mizuho-hall-faculty-of-law-and-faculty-of-economics-east-bldg-2\/","venue":"Basement Floor, “Mizuho Hall”, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg.","slug":"basement-floor-mizuho-hall-faculty-of-law-and-faculty-of-economics-east-bldg-2","json_ld":{"@type":"Place","name":"Basement Floor, “Mizuho Hall”, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg.","description":"","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/venue\/basement-floor-mizuho-hall-faculty-of-law-and-faculty-of-economics-east-bldg-2\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"show_map":true,"show_map_link":true,"global_id":"www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=26308","global_id_lineage":["www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=26308"]},"organizer":[{"id":24115,"author":"7","status":"publish","date":"2015-03-01 17:04:22","date_utc":"2015-03-01 08:04:22","modified":"2015-03-01 17:04:22","modified_utc":"2015-03-01 08:04:22","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/organizer\/mieno\/","organizer":"Mieno","slug":"mieno","json_ld":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mieno","description":"","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/organizer\/mieno\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""},"global_id":"www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=24115","global_id_lineage":["www.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en?id=24115"]}],"json_ld":{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org","@type":"Event","name":"Kyoto University Asian Economic Development Seminar","description":"<p>Date: 18th Friday, March 2016 Venue: Basement Floor, "Mizuho Hall", Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg. Yoshida Campus, (No.5 building in the map) http:\/\/www.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/en\/access\/yoshida\/main.html Language: English   Munir Squires (LSE) "Kinship Taxation as a Constraint to Microenterprise Growth: Experimental Evidence from Kenya" Abstract: Developing country entrepreneurs face family pressure to share income. This pressure, a kinship tax, can distort capital allocations. I combine evidence from a lab experiment-which allows me to estimate an individual-level sufficient statistic for the distortion-with data I collected on a sample of Kenyan entrepreneurs, to quantify the importance of the tax. My data reveal high kinship tax rates for a third of entrepreneurs <a class="read-more" href="http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/event\/20160318\/">[ Read More ]<\/a><\/p>\\n","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/en\/event\/20160318\/","startDate":"2016-03-18T03:00:00+09:00","endDate":"2016-03-18T18:00:00+09:00","location":{"@type":"Place","name":"Basement Floor, “Mizuho Hall”, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Economics, East Bldg.","description":"","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/venue\/basement-floor-mizuho-hall-faculty-of-law-and-faculty-of-economics-east-bldg-2\/","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress"},"telephone":"","sameAs":""},"organizer":{"@type":"Person","name":"Mieno","description":"","url":"http:\/\/www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp\/www\/2016\/organizer\/mieno\/","telephone":"","email":"","sameAs":""}}}