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The extension of clusters : difference-in-differences evidence from the Bavarian state-wide cluster policy
Falck, Oliver (contributor); Heblich, Stephan (contributor);  … - 2008
If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiativeʺ introduced in 1999 by the Bavarian State Government. The purpose of the initiative was...
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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009
We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861779
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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011
-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009010182
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The impact of school lunches on primary school enrollment : evidence from India's midday meal scheme
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Simroth, Dora - 2011
effects of India's midday meal scheme, which offers warm lunches, free of cost, to 120 million primary school children across … India and is the largest school feeding program in the world. To isolate the causal effect of the policy, we make use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009412379
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Economy wide impact of the trade integration between Japan and India : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013
Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …
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Productivity response to a contract change
Jayaraman, Rajshri; Ray, Debraj; Véricout, Francis de - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
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Food for fuel : the effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012
Fuels Mandate. This paper examines the distributional effects of the U.S. mandate on India. First, we use a model with … people the most. About 42 million new poor may be created in India alone. Under imperfect pass-through, this number declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009582025
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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017
outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602559
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Covid-19 learning loss and recovery : panel data evidence from India
Singh, Abhijeet; Romero, Mauricio; Muralidharan, Karthik - 2022
We use a panel survey of ∼19,000 primary-school-aged children in rural Tamil Nadu to study "learning loss" after COVID-19-induced school closures, and the pace of recovery after schools reopened. Students tested in December 2021 (18 months after school closures) displayed learning deficits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013419245
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Inefficient lock-in and subsidy competition
Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - 2009
This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...
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