, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses … percent decrease in unit cost of heat input, and (3) a lower capacity factor even after adjusting for cross-plant generation … re-allocation due to cost reductions. Based on these estimates, back-of-the-envelope calculations find that restructuring …

Beyond years of schooling, educational content can play an important role in the process of economic development …

possible problems with overreaction to public information. Furthermore, we suggest a new focus for development policy. …

I argue that whether or not a state is "predatory" hinges on the relationship between development and the distribution … of political power in society. Development is typically inconsistent with the preservation of the political status quo …

social welfare has important implications for both the economics of climate change and comparative development. …

necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …