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This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
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The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of … development to estimate jobs' amenability to working from home. The paper considers jobs' characteristics and uses internet access … more intensive in physical/manual tasks, using less information and communications technology, and having poorer internet …
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growing region in the world. In recent years, despite waning demand from the crisis-hit Western economies, the accelerating …
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Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) varieties have important nutritional differences and there is strong interest to identify nutritionally superior varieties for dissemination. In agricultural household surveys, this information is often collected based on the farmer's self-report. However, recent...
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Progress in child mortality reduction and education attainment varies widely among oil-rich countries. This paper investigates the causes of this variation using an empirical model that departs from the available literature in allowing for explicit measurement of the impact of initial levels of...
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Economic theory predicts that a rise in police presence will reduce criminal activity. However several studies in the literature have found mixed results. This study adds to the literature by exploring the relationship between the size of the police force and crime experienced by firms. Using...
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As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc across the world, researchers are attempting to quantify the economic fallout from …
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The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the … impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on … international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when Internet adoption increases in the exporter than importer. A 10 …
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(technologies that benefit a large segment of the economy and have long-lasting effect). It finds that only Internet services are so …: firm growth and productivity are much higher when Internet access is greater and when firms use the Internet more … intensively; and Internet access benefits firms in high- and low-tech industries, firms of all sizes, and exporter and non …
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and the interview modality (in person or over the phone) affect how people respond in labor surveys, with impacts varying …
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