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Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India
Dhaliwal, Iqbal; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in the attendance of the medical staff. Health outcomes improved, with a 16 percent increase in the delivery of infants by a doctor and a 26 percent...
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SMEs, Growth, and Poverty
Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross; Beck, Thorsten - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
This paper explores the relationship between the relative size of the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector, economic growth, and poverty alleviation using a new database on the share of SME labor in the total manufacturing labor force. Using a sample of 45 countries, we find a strong,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830798
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Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences
Caselli, Francesco - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
Why are some countries so much richer than others? Development Accounting is a first-pass attempt at organizing the answer around two proximate determinants: factors of production and efficiency. It answers the question "how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050273
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Digging the Dirt at Public Expense: Governance in the Building of the Erie Canal and Other Public Works
Engerman, Stanley; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
The Erie Canal was a mammoth public works project undertaken largely because the scope of the investment was beyond what a private firm could manage during the early 19th century. As with most public works, there were ample opportunities for public officials to realize private gains from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037674
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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production: Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth...
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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions without the consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensing after World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...
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Remittance Responses to Temporary Discounts: A Field Experiment among Central American Migrants
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impacts on remittances of offering migrants temporary discounts on remittance transaction fees. We … weeks after expiration of the discount. We find no evidence that the discounts cause migrants to shift remittances from … other remittance channels, or to send remittances on behalf of other migrants. These findings are consistent with naïveté on …
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Channeling Remittances to Education: A Field Experiment Among Migrants from El Salvador
Ambler, Kate; Aycinena, Diego; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We implement a randomized experiment offering Salvadoran migrants matching funds for educational remittances, which are … remittances. …
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Directing Remittances to Education with Soft and Hard Commitments: Evidence from a Lab-in-the-field Experiment and New Product Take-up Among Filipino Migrants in Rome
De Arcangelis, Giuseppe; McKenzie, David Mckenzie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
This paper tests how migrants’ willingness to remit changes when given the ability to direct remittances to educational … commitment of simply labeling remittances as being for education, to the hard commitment of having funds directly paid to a … raises remittances by more than 15 percent. Adding the ability to directly send this funding to the school adds only a …
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Is Sell-Side Research More Valuable in Bad Times?
Loh, Roger K.; Stulz, René M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
In bad times, uncertainty is high, so that investors find it more difficult to assess the prospects of the firms they invest in. Learning models suggest that in such times investors should, everything else equal, value informative signals such as analyst forecasts and recommendations more than...
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