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Beck, Mathias; Junge, Martin; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2017

We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...

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Privatization and changes in the wage structure : evidence from firm personnel records

Melly, Blaise (contributor); Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2008

We investigate the wage effects of privatization using person-level firm-based panel datasets from one privatized and … one nonprivatized public sector firm in the same country for the years immediately before and after privatization. Thus …, we can analyze the before-after effects of privatization while controlling for individual and time fixed effects and …

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Does performance information affect job seekers in selecting private providers in voucher-based ALMP programs?

Gerdes, Christer - 2015

One of the services provided at the Swedish Public Employment Services is job coaching. Since 2012, that service has been organized according to a voucher-based choice system. In 2013, a performance indicator of job coaching providers was made available at an online website. This study examines...

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Public infrastructure, location of private schools and primary school attainment in an emerging economy

Pal, Sarmistha - 2009

The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...

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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects : evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

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Urban infrastructure and economic development : experimental evidence from street pavement

González-Navarro, Marco; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010

We design an infrastructure experiment in Mexico to evaluate the impact of street pavement on housing values and household outcomes. We find that the provision of street pavement raises housing values by 16% and land values by 54%, according to professional appraisals. Using homeowner...

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Integration of technological and social components in a smart urban development model : a case study of China

Heshmati, Almas; Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, … - 2022

The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement of a composite index of networking among key components of societal infrastructure and how it affects the process of urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we...

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Come out and play : public space recovery, social capital, and citizen security

Braun, Matías; Gallego, Francisco A.; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2023

This paper examines the effects of renovating deteriorated public spaces on local socioeconomic outcomes. We analyze the impacts of a randomized experiment implemented in 28 fragile neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile. Our findings indicate that the renovation of local squares led to increased use...

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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania

Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017

What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...

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Infrastructure's imprint : metro proximity and property development dynamics in São Paulo, Brazil

Grimaldi, Daniel; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Zimmermann, Beatrice - 2024

How does the proximity to a metro station affect urban development in Latin America? While the literature assessing the causal impacts of transportation infrastructure has grown in recent years, only a few papers have focused on the effects of metro systems in Latin America and the Caribbean...

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