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American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …
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's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …
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complementarity. This amplification enables our model to nearly fully account for the income gap between India and the US without …
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This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...
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the US, India, and Africa are matched in pairs within and, in some cases, across countries. Employers make a one … by conditional reciprocity or by intrinsic motivation. Subjects from India and Africa are more likely to follow intrinsic …
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by carrying out algorithmic audits of Facebook in its two biggest markets, the US and India, focusing on two algorithms …
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We leverage a unique two-stage experiment that randomized access to private school vouchers across markets as well as students to estimate the revealed preference value of school choice. To do this, we estimate several choice models on data only from control markets before turning to the...
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the household. We test the model using data from rural India, focusing particularly on the schooling of girls. We find …
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