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Banks and Innovation: Microeconometric Evidence on Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Sembenelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper we investigate the effect of local banking development on firms’ innovative activities, using a rich data set on innovation for a large number of Italian firms over the 1990’s. There is evidence that banking development affects the probability of process innovation,...
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Financial Markets, Banks' Cost of Funding, and Firms' Decisions: Lessons from Two Crises
Balduzzi, Pierluigi; Brancati, Emanuele; Schiantarelli, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We test whether financial fluctuations affect firms' decisions, through their impact on banks' cost of funding. We …-2012 sovereign debt crisis. Using newly available data linking over 3,000, mostly privately-held, non-financial firms to their bank(s …), we find that increases in Italian banks' CDS spreads and decreases in their equity valuations lead younger and smaller …
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Recovery Performance of Primary Agriculture Credit Societies in India: An Assessment
Mazumder, Rabin; Chakravarty, Chandrasekhar; Bhandari, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Agricultural credit is one of the most crucial inputs in all agricultural development programmes. Access of rural … credit has still remained scarce in India. Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS) working at grass-root level, having … institution. The present study examines the recovery performance of rural credit given by PACS in six different regions of India …
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Rationalizable Suicides: Evidence from Changes in Inmates' Expected Length of Sentence
Campaniello, Nadia; Diasakos, Theodoros; Mastrobuoni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Is there a rational component in the decision to commit suicide? Economists have been trying to shed light on this question by studying whether suicide rates are related to contemporaneous conditions. This paper goes one step further: we test whether suicides are linked to forward-looking...
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Culture and Household Decision Making: Balance of Power and Labor Supply Choices of US-born and Foreign-born Couples
Oreffice, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This study investigates how spouses' cultural backgrounds mediate the role of intra-household bargaining in the labor supply decisions of foreign-born and US-born couples, in a collective-household framework. Using data from the 2000 US Census, I show that the hours worked by US-born couples,...
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The Fertility-Sex Ratio Trade-off: Unintended Consequences of Financial Incentives
Anukriti, S - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to...
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Pappa Ante Portas: The Retired Husband Syndrome in Japan
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The "Retired Husband Syndrome", that affects the mental health of wives of retired men around the world, has been anecdotally documented but never formally investigated. We use Japanese micro data and the exogenous variation generated by the 2006 revision of the Japanese Elderly Employment...
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Commercial Plasma Donation and Individual Health in Impoverished Rural China
Chen, Xi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
one million people. Many blood banks have since moved to more remote southwest provinces, which have become new suppliers …
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Attractiveness, Anthropometry or Both? Their Relationship and Role in Economic Research
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze how attractiveness rated at the start of the interview is related to weight (controlling for height), and BMI, separately by gender and also accounting for interviewer fixed effects, in a nationally representative sample. We are the first to show that height, weight, and BMI all...
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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
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