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Voting Up? The Effects of Democracy and Franchise Extension on Human Stature
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-i-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019
between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …
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Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - 2014
Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … and 0.148cm for Czechs. Although transition paths differ across the two countries, the absolute height gap between Slovaks …
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
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Cloud Computing and Firm Growth
DeStefano, Timothy; Kneller, Richard; Timmis, Jonathan - 2020
Cloud computing enables a shift in the costs of ICT adoption from investment in fixed capital to pay-on-demand services allowing firms to scale and reorganize. Using new firm-level data we examine the impact of cloud on firm growth, using zip-code-level instruments of the timing of high-speed...
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The Labour Market Returns to Sleep
Costa-Font, Joan; Fleche, Sarah; Pagan, Ricardo; … - 2022
.6 percentage points and weekly earnings by 3.4%. Most of this earnings effect comes from productivity improvements, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290026
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766