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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...

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Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity

Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...

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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier: Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Peters, Bettina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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Microeconomic Evidence of Creative Destruction in Industrial and Developing Countries

Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

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Cross-Country Differences in Productivity: The Role of Allocation and Selection

Bartelsman, Eric; Haltiwanger, John C.; Scarpetta, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

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