This paper establishes that a targeted
policy backfires because it reveals information about
non-targeted units. In the world’s largest
fishery, the regulator attempts to reduce the harvesting of
juvenile fish by temporarily closing areas where the share
of juvenile catch is high. By combining administrative
microdata with biologically richer data from fishing firms,
the analysis isolates variation in closures that is due to
the regulator’s...
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2022/12/01
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS10248
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2022/12/01
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Information and Spillovers from Targeting Policy in Peru's Anchoveta Fishery