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find that the presence of a numerically dominant sub-caste (caste equilibrium) is associated with the selection of leaders …
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We construct a new nationally-representative panel dataset of schools across 1297 villages in India and find that the … to be high, with 23.6 percent of teachers in public schools across rural India being absent during unannounced visits to … in India is around $1.5 billion per year, and that investing in better governance by hiring more inspectors to increase …
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We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in the United States, focusing on the role of inventive ability (“nature”) vs. environment (“nurture”). Using deidentified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records, we first show that...
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In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
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distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …
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Much of today’s software relies on programming code shared openly online. Yet, it is unclear why volunteer developers contribute to open-source software (OSS), a public good. We study OSS contributions of some 22,900 developers worldwide on the largest online code repository platform, GitHub,...
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