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Business groups, which are ubiquitous in emerging market economies, balance the advantages of characteristics such as internal capital markets with the disadvantages such as inefficient internal distribution of resources and suppression of technological and other forms of innovativeness. In this...
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The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
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We conduct an interactive online experiment framed as an employment contract between employer and worker. Subjects from the US, India, and Africa are matched in pairs within and, in some cases, across countries. Employers make a one-period offer to a worker who can either decline or choose a...
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farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
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Although, the male labor force participation rate is comparable in China and India, female labor force participation …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … measure sizable gaps in marginal products of labor and capital across plants within narrowly-defined industries in China and ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …
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-standing) attributes in a culture set are. We illustrate these ideas using examples from African, England, China, the Islamic world, the …
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American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … correlation between density and earnings is stronger in both China and India than in the U.S., strongest in China. In India the …
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Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …
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survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …
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