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Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region
Sonobe, Tetsushi - 2003
While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...
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Chinese Rural Industrial Productivity and Urban Spillovers
Peng, Yusheng - 1997
Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...
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Contract Farming and Rural Transformation : Evidence from a Field Experiment in Benin
Arouna, Aminou - 2019
In recent decades contract farming has emerged as a popular mechanism to encourage vertical coordination in developing country agriculture. The goal of such coordination is to better integrate smallholder farmers into the modern agricultural food system, fostering rural transformation. We use...
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Impact of Rural and Urban Hospital Closures on Inpatient Mortality
Gujral, Kritee - 2019
This paper examines the impact of California's hospital closures occurring from 1995-2011 on adjusted inpatient … myocardial infarction (AMI). Using a difference- in-difference approach on California's Office of Statewide Health Planning and … in prior work by using a reconciled list of California's hospital closures and by studying differential impacts of rural …
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Rural Windfall or a New Resource Curse? Coca, Income, and Civil Conflict in Colombia
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2005
Natural and agricultural resources for which there is a substantial black market, such as coca, opium, and diamonds, appear especially likely to be exploited by the parties to a civil conflict. On the other hand, these resources may also provide one of the few reliable sources of income in the...
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Flip the Switch : The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940
Kitchens, Carl - 2013
To isolate the impact of access to electricity on local economies, we examine the impact of the Rural Electrification Administration low-interest loans in the 1930s. The REA provided loans to cooperatives to lay distribution lines to farms and aid in wiring homes. Consequently, the number of...
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Growing Apart : Declining Within- and Across-Locality Insurance in Rural China
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Meghir, Costas; Mommaerts, Corina; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We consider risk sharing in rural China during its rapid economic transformation from the late 1980s through the late 2000s. We document an erosion of consumption insurance against both household-level idiosyncratic and village-level aggregate income shocks, and show that this decline is related...
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T. - 2014
Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...
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Is the Decline in the Number of Community Banks Detrimental to Community Economic Development?
Minton, Bernadette A.; Taboada, Alvaro G.; Williamson, Rohan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Our research examines the impact of dwindling community bank numbers on community investment and economic development. Initially, we confirm the vital role of community banks' small business lending in local development. Contrary to popular belief, we find that a decrease in community banks...
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The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and their Families
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...
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