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Agri-Technologies and Travelling Facts: A Case Study of Extension Education in Tamil Nadu, India

Howlett, Peter; Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

education program inTamil Nadu, south India. The paper explores the extent to whichfertigation technologies (drip irrigation … relativelyexpensive technology, but also fostering cooperative behaviour andimproving individual bargaining power through the formation of … localfarmers associations. This model of an extension education had anstrong demonstration effect that encouraged the travel of …

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Entrepreneurial talent, occupational choice, and trickle up policies

Ghatak, Maitreesh; Morelli, Massimo; Sjöström, Tomas - London School of Economics and Political Science; Ohio …; … - 2006

We study market inefficiencies and policy remedies when agents choose their occupations, and entrepreneurialtalent is subject to private information. Untalented entrepreneurs depress the returns to entrepreneurshipbecause of adverse selection. The severity of this problem depends on the outside...

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Intentions to participate in adolescent Training Programs: Evidence from Uganda

Bandiera, Oriana; Gulesci, Selim; Burgess, Robin; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Almost one third of the population in developing countries is under age 15. Hence improvingthe effectiveness of policy interventions that target adolescents might be especiallyimportant. We analyze the intention to participate in training programs of adolescent girlsin Uganda, a country with...

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Employment trajectories for mothers in low-skilled work: Evidence from the British Lone Parent Cohort

Stewart, Kitty - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign against child poverty, both because it raises income immediately and...

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Ethnic segregation in England’s schools

Burgess, Simon M.; Wilson, Deborah - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

We document ethnic segregation in secondary schools in England in 2001 inorder to contribute to the debate on the degree of ethnic group social integration.We use indices of dissimilarity and isolation to compare the patterns ofsegregation across nine ethnic groups. We find that levels of ethnic...

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Technological Trends Affecting the Manufacturing Sector of New York City

Moss, Mitchell L. - New York University / Department of Economics; London … - 1997

[...]The loss of manufacturing jobs has created a widespreadsense that manufacturing in New York City has nofuture, that the decline is unstoppable and “largely inevitableand foreordained” (Fitch 1993, p. 107). Even theoptimistic report of the Commission on the Year 2000,New York Ascendant,...

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Time and Productivity Growth in Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

constituted the first technology that industrialized a labour-intensive service. Measuring output in time spent consuming them …

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Structural Change and the Growth Contribution of Services: How Motion Pictures Industrialized US Spectator Entertainment

Bakker, Gerben - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This paper examines the effect of a new technology on a labour-intensive service. Comparing primal and dual TFP …

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An Historical Analysis of the Expansion Of Compulsory Schooling in Europe After the Second World War

Viarengo, Martina - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

period is considered. The ‘role of the state’ theory performs better until 1970 whereas after the Golden Age, technology and …

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Steam as a General Purpose Technology: A Growth Accounting Perspective

Crafts, Nicholas F. R. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2003

GPT can be defined as "a technology that initially has much scope for improvement and evntually comes to be widely used …). Subsequently, as the scope of the technology is finally exhausted, its impact on growth will fade away. If, at that point, a new …

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