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Schooling and Labor Market Consequences of School Construction in Indonesia : Evidence from an Unusual Policy Experiment

Duflo, Esther - 2021

Between 1973 and 1978, the Indonesian Government constructed over 61,000 primary schools throughout the country. This is one of the largest school construction programs on record. I evaluate the effect of this program on education and wages by combining differences across regions in the number...

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Puzzles in the Forex Tokyo “Fixing” : Order Imbalances and Biased Pricing by Banks

Ito, Takatoshi - 2016

“Fixing” in the foreign exchange market is a market practice that determines the bid-ask-mid-point exchange rate at a scheduled time, 10am in Tokyo and 4pm in London. The fixing exchange rate is then applied to the settlement of foreign exchange transactions between banks and retail...

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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking : Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther - 2010

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016

The promise of randomized controlled trials is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us—possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts—to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out that a potential...

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Mainstreaming an Effective Intervention : Evidence from Randomized Evaluations of “Teaching at the Right Level” in India

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016

Previous randomized studies have shown that addressing children's current learning gaps, rather than following an over-ambitious uniform curriculum, can lead to significant learning gains. In this study, we evaluate a series of efforts to scale up the NGO Pratham's approach to teaching children...

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Equalizing Superstars : The Internet and the Democratization of Education

Acemoglu, Daron - 2014

Internet-based educational resources are proliferating rapidly. One concern associated with these (potentially transformative) technological changes is that they will be disequalizing - as many technologies of the last several decades have been - creating superstar teachers and a winner-take-all...

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Housing Finance Imperfections and Private Saving : a Comparative Simulation Analysis of the U.S. And Japan

Hayashi, Fumio; Ito, Takatoshi; Slemrod, Joel B. - 2021

decisions, and the tax system in the United States and Japan. To investigate this issue, we first document the stylized fact … rate is shown to contribute to a higher aggregate saving rate in Japan compared to the U.S. However, the contribution of … Japan. Finally, tax reform concerning the tax deductibility of mortgage interest payments or the tax exempt status of …

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Japanization : Is it Endemic or Epidemic?

Ito, Takatoshi - 2016

1990. Since 2009, major advanced countries have shared conditions (1)-(3). Only Japan has experienced a prolonged period of … (4) deflation. A closer examination of how Japan got into the Japanization state reveals that it is a combination of (a …

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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?

Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Duflo, Esther - 2022

This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...

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Democracy does cause growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Naidu, Suresh; Restrepo, Pascual; … - 2016

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