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Effect of health insurance in India: a randomized controlled trial
Malani, Anup; Holtzman, Phoebe; Imai, Kosuke; Kinnan, … - 2021
We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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Quality and price setting of high-tech goods
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Talavera, Oleksandr; Nam Hoai Vu - 2021
This paper investigates the link between product quality and price setting for central processing units (CPUs). Using thousands of price quotes from a popular price-comparison website, we find that market fundamentals, such as the number of sellers, median price, share of convenient prices and...
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Aggregate effects from public works: evidence from India
Cook, C. Justin; Shah, Manisha - 2020
This paper explores the aggregate economic effects from India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS …
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The quality-complementarity hypothesis : theory and evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Verhoogen, Eric (contributor) - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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When banana import restrictions lead to exports : a tale of cyclones and quarantine policies
Chia Chiun Ko; Frijters, Paul - 2014
of the banana plants because of sufficiently low elasticity of demand. Using the cyclones of 2006 and 2011 as exogenous … events, we identify the elasticity of demand for bananas in Australia to be around -0.5. We indeed find limited evidence for …
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Economic surplus and derived demand
Schlicht, Ekkehart (contributor) - 2006
Most demand -- especially labor demand -- is derived from the demand for some other product. This note demonstrates … case of derived demand. -- derived demand ; indirect demand ; consumers's surplus ; economic rent …
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … market. After characterizing the general demand models, it reviews consumer baseline based on which further study the demand …
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Productivity, welfare and reallocation : theory and firm-level evidence
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2009
We prove that the change in welfare of a representative consumer is summarized by the current and expected future values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies...
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Productivity and the welfare of nations
Basu, Susanto; Pascali, Luigi; Schiantarelli, Fabio; … - 2012
We show that the welfare of a country's infinitely-lived representative consumer is summarized, to a first order, by total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a country, as well as welfare differences across...
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The productivity puzzle in business services
Kritikos, Alexander; Schiersch, Alexander; Stiel, Caroline - 2021
In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries. Using a German firm-level dataset of 700,000...
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