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Heterogeneity, Stratification and Growth

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

particular when comparing local and national funding of education, which correspond to special cases of segregation and …

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Education, Income Distribution, and Growth: The Local Connection

Bénabou, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

emerge. First, minor differences in education technologies, preferences, or wealth, can lead to a high degree of … inequality in education and income more persistent across generations. Whether the same is true of inequality in total wealth … richer communities; thus average academic performance and income growth both fall. Yet it may still be possible for education …

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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...

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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions: Paving the Way

Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana; Gourdon, Julien; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...

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Are the Benefits of Export Support Durable? Evidence from Tunisia

Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana; Gourdon, Julien; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary firms. While most studies assess only the short-term impact of such programs, we consider also the longer-term impact. Estimates suggest that beneficiaries initially saw both...

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Bonus Culture: Competitive Pay, Screening, and Multitasking

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes the impact of labor market competition and skill-biased technical change on the structure of compensation. The model combines multitasking and screening, embedded into a Hotelling-like framework. Competition for the most talented workers leads to an escalating reliance on...

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Forbidden Fruits: The Political Economy of Science, Religion, and Growth

Bénabou, Roland; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We analyze the joint dynamics of religious beliefs, scientific progress and coalitional politics along both religious and economic lines. History offers many examples of the recurring tensions between science and organized religion, but as part of the paper’s motivating evidence we also...

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Do Food Scares Explain Supplier Concentration? An Analysis of EU Agri-food Imports

Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a decreasing trend in the geographical concentration of EU agro-food imports. Decomposing the concentration indices into intensive and extensive margins components, we find that the decrease in overall concentration indices results from two diverging trends: the pattern of...

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Imports and TFP at the Firm Level: The Role of Absorptive Capacity

Augier, Patricia; Cadot, Olivier; Dovis, Marion - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using...

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