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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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Understanding the Contributions of Reallocation to Productivity Growth: Lessons from a Comparative Firm-Level Analysis

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …

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Gross Job Flows in Russian Industry Before and After Reforms: Has Destruction Become More Creative?

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector … also increased significantly. Intra- and inter-sectoral job reallocation had no effect on aggregate labor productivity … the firms with the lowest productivity. …

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Economic Reforms and Productivity-Enhancing Reallocation in the Post-Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

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