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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India
Bloom, Nicholas - 2018
Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving … management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in … control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second, while few management practices had …
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Europe and the euro
Alesina, Alberto (ed.); Giavazzi, Francesco (contributor) - 2010
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Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries
Blanchflower, David G. (contributor);  … - 2000
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Civil Service Reform and Organizational Practices : Evidence from the Pendleton Act
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Competitive exams are a standard method for selecting civil servants. Yet, evidence on the effectiveness of such approach is mixed, and lack of personnel data limits our understanding of the mechanisms underlying this varying success. We digitize personnel and financial data to study the impacts...
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Do Principals Fire the Worst Teachers?
Jacob, Brian A. - 2010
This paper takes advantage of a unique policy change to examine how principals make decisions regarding teacher dismissal. In 2004, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) signed a new collective bargaining agreement that gave principals the flexibility to dismiss...
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How Elastic is the Government's Demand for Weapons?
Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1989
We attempt to make inferences about the elasticity of the government's demand for specific weapons by analyzing the statistical relationship between quantity and cost revisions across the population of major weapon systems, using data contained in the Pentagon's Selected Acquisition Reports. The...
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Redistribution Through Public Employment : The Case of Italy
Alesina, Alberto - 1999
This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy. It documents two sets of facts. This first is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as...
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Ownership versus Environment : Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?
Bartel, Ann P. - 1999
In this paper we disentangle the sources of public sector inefficiency using 1982-1995 panel data on manufacturing firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to monitoring problems and (2) public sector enterprises are inefficient...
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From Scarcity to Abundance : Government and Private Initiatives to Manage the Allocation of N95 Masks in the U.S. During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joskow, Paul L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper examines the structure, behavior and performance of the N95 respirator market in the U.S. before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-early 2022). It focuses on the behavior and performance of government and private sector organizations in the allocation of scarce supplies of N95...
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State-building on the Margin : An Urban Experiment in Medellin
Blattman, Christopher; Duncan, Gustavo; Lessing, Benjamin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Medellin's government wanted to raise its efficacy, legitimacy, and control. The city identified 80 neighborhoods with weak state presence and competing armed actors. In half, they increased non-police street presence tenfold for two years, offering social services and dispute resolution. In...
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