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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 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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The Simple Economics of Open Source

Lerner, Josh - 2000

There has been a recent surge of interest in open source software development, which involves developers at many different locations and organizations sharing code to develop and refine programs. To an economist, the behavior of individual programmers and commercial companies engaged in open...

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Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish - 1999

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms have applied for and received quality certifications like the ISO9001, and the number of quality certified software firms has steadily increased. Despite its growing popularity...

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Programming FPGAs for Economics : An Introduction to Electrical Engineering Economics

Cheela, Bhagath; DeHon, André; Fernández-Villaverde, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...

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The Returns to Face-to-Face Interactions : Knowledge Spillovers in Silicon Valley

Atkin, David; Chen, Keith; Popov, Anton - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The returns to face-to-face interactions are of central importance to understanding the determinants of agglomeration. However, the existing literature studying patterns of geographic proximity in patent citations or industrial co-location has struggled to disentangle the benefits of...

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Incentivizing Innovation in Open Source : Evidence from the GitHub Sponsors Program

Conti, Annamaria; Gupta, Vansh; Guzman, Jorge; Roche, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Open source is key to innovation, but we know little about how to incentivize it. In this paper, we examine the impact of a program providing monetary incentives to motivate innovators to contribute to open source. The Sponsors program was introduced by GitHub in May 2019 and enabled...

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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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Public sector payrolls

Wise, David A. (ed.) - 1987

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