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Mancall, Peter C. - 2000

Based on data from several samples of probate inventories we construct and analyze a time series of slave prices for South Carolina from 1722 to 1809. These estimates reveal that prices fluctuated without trend prior to the 1760s and then began to rise rapidly, more than doubling by the early...

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Fuzzy Frontiers of Production : Evidence of Persistent Inefficiency in Safety Expenditures

Ichniowski, Casey - 1984

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

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The Impact of Plant-level Resource Reallocations and Technical Progress on U.S. Macroeconomic Growth

Petrin, Amil - 2011

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

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Financial constraints and innovation : Why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

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Productivity, Efficiency, Scale Economies and Technical Change : A New Decomposition Analysis

Nemoto, Jiro - 2005

This paper aims to examine the productivity change of the Japanese economy using the data pertaining to the 47 … prefectures during the period 1981-2000. The decomposition analysis of the Hicks-Moorsteen-Bjurek productivity index is conducted … to explore the sources of the productivity change. In summary, technical change and efficiency change are two of the most …

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The World Technology Frontier

Caselli, Francesco - 2000

We define a country's technology as a triple of efficiencies: one for unskilled labor, one for skilled labor, and one for capital. We find a negative cross-country correlation between the efficiency of unskilled labor and the efficiencies of skilled labor and capital. We interpret this finding...

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Multi Product Firms, Import Competition, and the Evolution of Firm-product Technical Efficiencies

Dhyne, Emmanuel - 2017

We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of firm-product technical efficiencies in the small open economy of Belgium. We observe quarterly firm-product data at the 8-digit level on quantities sold and firm-level labor, capital, and intermediate inputs from 1997 to 2007, a...

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Reconciling Models of Diffusion and Innovation : A Theory of the Productivity Distribution and Technology Frontier

Benhabib, Jess - 2017

We study how innovation and technology diffusion interact to endogenously determine the productivity distribution and … productivity distribution. With finite support, the aggregate growth rate cannot exceed the maximum growth rate of innovators …

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Mobile Money and Healthcare Use : Evidence from East Africa

Ahmed, Haseeb - 2019

This paper uses a difference-in-difference framework to estimate the effects of mobile money transfer technology (MMT) on healthcare usage in the face of negative health shocks. We use survey data from 2013-16 with quarterly observations on about 1,600 households of 10 villages in the Kisumu...

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Can Self-Help Groups Really Be "Self-Help"?

Greaney, Brian - 2013

This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups typically rely on outside agents to found and administer the groups although funds are raised by the group members. The innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by...

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