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Supply chain reliability and international economic growth : impacts of disruptions like COVID-19

Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Goel, Srishti S. - 2020

importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …

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Ending Covid-19 vaccine apartheid through vaccine donations : the influence of supply chains

Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023

supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times …

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Should transportation output be included as part of the coincident indicators system?

Lahiri, Kajal; Yao, Wenxiong - 2011

With the increasing importance of the service-providing sectors, information from these sectors has become essential to the understanding of contemporary business cycles. This paper explores the usefulness of the transportation services output index (TSI) as an additional coincident indicator in...

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Prices, schedules, and passenger welfare in multi-service transportation systems

Billette de Villemeur, Étienne; Vinella, Annalisa - 2019

We consider a multi-service transportation system in which passengers are heterogeneous along two dimensions, namely ideal departure time and value of time, leading to both horizontal and vertical differentiation. We investigate the behavior of passengers, and assess how service pricing and...

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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Does the quality of electricity matter? : evidence from rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative panel...

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Impact of formal climate risk transfer mechanisms on risk-aversion : empirical evidence from rural Ethiopia

Haile, Kaleab K.; Nillesen, Eleonora; Tirivayi, Nyasha - 2019

This study examines the effect of smallholder farmers' access to a formal climate risk transfer mechanism on their risk preferences. Survey and experimental data were collected from smallholder farmers that have access to weather index-based crop insurance (WICI) in Ethiopia. We use an...

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Does state aid for broadband deployment in rural areas close the digital and economic divide?

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Dürr, Niklas S.; Falck, Oliver; … - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...

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What stayers do? : capital endowments and on-farm transitions in Rural China

Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi; Luo, Mingzhong - 2018

While much research on China has focused on rural to urban migration and transitions of rural households away from agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to account for a large share of employment. We study the...

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Isolating the "Tech" from EdTech : experimental evidence on computer assisted learning in China

Ma, Yue; Fairlie, Robert W.; Loyalka, Prashant; … - 2020

EdTech which includes online education, computer assisted learning (CAL), and remote instruction was expanding rapidly even before the current full-scale substitution for in-person learning at all levels of education around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic. Studies of CAL...

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