Front Matter Page
Strategy, Policy and Review Department
Contents
I. Introduction
II. Construction of the Database
A. Paper Selection
B. Estimates and Statistics Selection
C. MPM’s and Outcome Variables Classification
D. MPM’s Measurement
E. Standardization
III. Descriptive Statistics
A. Database Overview
B. Statistical Significance
C. Magnitudes
D. Symmetry
IV. Meta-Regressions
A. Methodology
B. Baseline Results
C. Heterogeneity of Average Effects
D. Reconciling Macro and Micro Estimates: Statistical Power and Leakages and Spillovers
E. Impact on Economic Activity
F. Dynamics
V. Conclusion
References
Appendices
VI. Testing for Selection bias
VII. Additional Results
VIII. Robustness