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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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Distribution of landholdings in rural India : a comparative study of scheduled castes, tribes and non-scheduled caste and tribes
Sharma, H. R. - In: Artha vijñāna : journal of the Gokhale Institute of … 40 (1998) 2, pp. 196-226
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The Efficacy of Parochial Politics : Caste, Commitment, and Competence in Indian Local Governments
Munshi, Kaivan - 2008
find that the presence of a numerically dominant sub-caste (caste equilibrium) is associated with the selection of leaders …
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The Fiscal Cost of Weak Governance : Evidence from Teacher Absence in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2014
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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Who becomes an inventor in America? : the importance of exposure to innovation
Bell, Alex; Chetty, Raj; Jaravel, Xavier; Petkova, Neviana - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011879790
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Who Becomes an Inventor in America? The Importance of Exposure to Innovation
Bell, Alexander M. - 2017
We characterize the factors that determine who becomes an inventor in America by using de-identified data on 1.2 million inventors from patent records linked to tax records. We establish three sets of results. First, children from high-income (top 1%) families are ten times as likely to become...
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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
Zheng, Siqi - 2011
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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Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement in High School : A Cross-Subject Analysis with Student Fixed Effects
Clotfelter, Charles T. - 2007
distribution of teacher credentials by race and socio-economic status of high school students -- a pattern we also document …
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Career concerns as public good : the role of signaling for open source software development
El-Komboz, Lena Abou; Goldbeck, Moritz - 2023
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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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda
Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....
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