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Smoking is a leading cause for diseases and death. Information on factors affecting the smoking status is useful for policies on smoking reduction, especially in developing countries. This paper examines to what extent individuals' characteristics are correlated with the smoking status using a...
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This paper measures the impact of production of traded agricultural products on households'''' welfare and poverty in rural Vietnam. It is found that the production of rice has very small and not statistically significant impact on household income and expenditure. However, the production of...
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Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) is the biggest and richest city in Vietnam with the population of over 7 million people. This study combines the HCMC Mid-Census 2004 and panel data from the Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys 2004 and 2006 to produce poverty maps for HCMC's districts in 2006 using...
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Using panel data from Spain Farinas and Ruano (IJIO 2005) test three hypotheses from a model by Hopenhayn (Econometrica 1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that enter in year t are less productive than incumbent...
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This paper contributes to the flourishing literature on exports and productivity by using a unique newly available …
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first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading …
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presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …
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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …
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-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is due to extra cost of exporting that can be covered profitably by … than non-exporting firms from the same 4-digit industry both on average and over the whole productivity distribution …. However, many firms from the lower end of this distribution are exporters. This paper report that these low-productivity …
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for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …
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