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If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?
Comin, Diego A. - 2013
We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries, and their long-run penetration rates once they are adopted. Using data from the last two centuries, we document two new facts: there has been convergence in adoption lags between rich and poor countries, while there has...
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Foreign Technology Adoption as a Flying Propeller
Hu, Yunfang; Kunieda, Takuma; Nishimura, Kazuo; Wang, Ping - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger...
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Big Push in Distorted Economies
Buera, Francisco; Hopenhayn, Hugo Andrés; Shin, Yongseok; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
complementarity. This amplification enables our model to nearly fully account for the income gap between India and the US without …
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Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention : Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India
Banerjee, Abhijit - 2016
Motivated by the quantitative and qualitative analysis of these early attempts, we adapted the approach and designed large-scale experiments in the states of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to test two new scale-up models. In Haryana, teachers received support from government resource persons trained...
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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT
Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000
protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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Blackouts in the Developing World : The Role of Wholesale Electricity Markets
Jha, Akshaya; Preonas, Louis; Burlig, Fiona - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
explanation using novel data from India, home to the world's third-largest electricity sector. In contrast to the developed world …
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Trade Policy as an Input to Development
Krueger, Anne O. - 1980
My topic is the question: what difference does the set of commercial policies chosen by a developing country make to its rate of economic growth? Three points are salient. First, in its present state, trade theory provides little guidance as to the role of trade policy and trade strategy in...
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Cities, Lights, and Skills in Developing Economies
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2019
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 …
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Aging and Death under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2007
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Corno, Lucia - 2017
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 …
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