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, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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developing economy--India--to investigate the relationship between declines in trade costs, the imports of intermediate inputs …
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detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning--particularly product rationalization -- is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …
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decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India … India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be explained by falling poverty and …
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poverty and inequality. This paper uses the sharp trade liberalization in India in 1991, spurred to a large extent by external … factors, to measure the causal impact of trade liberalization on poverty and inequality in districts in India. Variation in … pre-liberalization industrial composition across districts in India and the variation in the degree of liberalization …
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Using industry-level data disaggregated by states, this paper finds a positive impact of trade liberalization on labor-demand elasticities in the Indian manufacturing sector. These elasticities turn out to be negatively related to protection levels that vary across industries and over time....
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-level data from India, we find a positive spillover from manufacturing growth to gross value added, wages, employment, and worker …
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dividing observed prices by the estimated markups. We use India's trade liberalization episode to examine how firms adjust …
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Particulate matter significantly reduces life expectancy in India. We use a randomized controlled trial in the Indian … cost-effective way to improve India's air quality …
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Formal rules within organizations are pervasive, but may be interpreted and implemented differently by actors within the organization, impacting organizational outcomes. We consider a delegation reform that changed formal rules within the environmental regulator in an Indian state, by giving...
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