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A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
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Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 we revisited the plants and found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental...
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We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …
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using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk …, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract … points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects …
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the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among … economies for entry hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large …
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