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Lack of access to finance is often cited as a key reason why poor people remain poor. This paper uses data on the Indian rural branch expansion program to provide empirial evidence on this issue. Between 1977 and 1990, the Indian Central Bank mandated that a commercial bank can open a branch in...
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This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and TFP growth by using direct survey data on knowledge flows linked to … firm-level TFP growth data. Our knowledge flow data correspond to the kind of information flows often argued, especially by … growth? (c) Do such flows constitute a spillover flow of free knowledge? Our evidence show that the main sources of knowledge …
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balanced aggregate growth. We show that a model of many goods and uneven TFP growth in market and home production can … aggregate growth. …
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This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...
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This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina’s integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...
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This paper analyzes the effect of resource-based economic specialization on women's labor market outcomes. Using information on the location and discovery of major oil fields in the Southern United States coupled with a county-level panel derived from US Census data for 1900-1940, we...
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Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...
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, education, and skills for consumption (rather than production) - can importantly affect patterns of economic growth and …
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless … global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and … converges towards egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …
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This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and …
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