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Dishonesty and Selection into Public Service

Hanna, Rema - 2013

In this paper, we demonstrate that university students who cheat on a simple task in a laboratory setting are more likely to state a preference for entering public service. Importantly, we also show that cheating on this task is predictive of corrupt behavior by real government workers, implying...

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Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship

Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We develop a framework for identifying and quantifying barriers to entry and operation faced by female entrepreneurs in developing countries, and apply it to the Indian economy. We find that despite considerable progress over time, female entrepreneurs still face substantial entry and business...

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Measuring Discrimination in Education

Hanna, Rema - 2009

In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam …

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Imported Intermediate Inputs and Domestic Product Growth : Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2008

developing economy--India--to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, the imports of intermediate inputs …

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World : Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - 2008

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning--particularly product rationalization -- is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …

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Affirmative Action in Education : Evidence From Engineering College Admissions in India

Bertrand, Marianne - 2008

in India for "lower-caste" groups. We find that it successfully targets the financially disadvantaged: the marginal upper …

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Monitoring Works : Getting Teachers to Come to School

Duflo, Esther - 2005

teaching activities and better learning. In 60 informal one-teacher schools in rural India, randomly chosen out of 120 (the …

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Estimating the Effects of Global Patent Protection in Pharmaceuticals : A Case Study of Quinolones in India

Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2003

set from India, we estimate key price and expenditure elasticities and supply-side parameters for the fluoroquinolones sub … fluoroquinolone molecules we study been under patent in India as they were in the U.S. at the time. Our results suggest that concerns …

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The Value of Regulatory Discretion : Estimates from Environmental Inspections in India

Duflo, Esther - 2014

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency …

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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India

Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014

Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in …

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