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The past century witnessed a dramatic improvement in public health, the rise of modern medicine, and the transformation …
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Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …
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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …
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taxation be structured to improve productivity, incentivize innovation, and ultimately increase welfare? We study these … their productivity and are subject to collateral constraints. The stationary equilibrium features heterogeneous returns and … misallocation of capital. We show that increasing the wealth tax increases aggregate productivity. The gains result from the "use …
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We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …
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There are several candidate explanations for macro-fluctuations. Two of the most common discussed sources are surprise changes in disembodied technology and monetary innovations. Another popular explanation is found under the heading of a preference or more generally a demand shock. More...
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productivity is particularly low. We take a macroeconomic approach to analyze the role of agriculture in development. We construct …-800 relative to labor. Input intensification accounts for a bit less than two thirds of the agricultural labor productivity gap …
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. The three key factors determining whether the introduction of a harm reduction method reduces or worsens health harms are …
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