Classic Big Push industrialization envisions state planners coordinating economic activity to internalize a range of …

protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …

explanation using novel data from India, home to the world's third-largest electricity sector. In contrast to the developed world …

premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India …

particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … two regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa, they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …

. We calibrate the model to firm-level data from the U.S. and India. We show that the model is quantitatively consistent … quantitative analysis shows that the low efficiency of delegation in India can account for 5% of productivity and 15% of income … differences between the U.S. and India in steady state. We also show that such inefficient delegation possibilities reduce the …