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Impacts of Double-Fortified Salt on Anemia and Cognition : Four-Year Follow-Up Evidence from a School-Based Nutrition Intervention in India
von Grafenstein, Liza; Kumar, Abhijeet; Kumar, Santosh; … - 2021
intervention in India. Using panel data, we examine the effectiveness of the use of iron and iodine fortified salt in school …
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Enfranchisement, Political Participation and Political Competition : Evidence from Colonial India
Cassan, Guilhem - 2020
franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that …
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Does Management Matter in Schools?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Barriers to Skill Acquisition : Evidence from English Training in India
Jain, Tarun - 2016
field experiment in India that subsidizes the cost of learning spoken English, we find that full subsidy (compared to …
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A Bit of Salt, a Trace of Life : Gender Norms and the Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children
Deng, Zichen - 2019
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children …
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The Effect of Announced Downsizing on Workplace Performance : Evidence from a Retail Chain
Friebel, Guido - 2016
We estimate the effect of downsizing announcement on workplace performance using data from a German bakery chain of 193 shops. Faced with intensified competition, the firm decided to sell or close down 57 of its worst performing shops. We identify the effect of downsizing from a plausibly...
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Competition vs. Monopoly in the Religious Marketplace : Judaism in the United States and Israel
Chiswick, Carmel U. - 2013
ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly …
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Wages, Hires, and Labor Market Concentration
Marinescu, Ioana Elena - 2020
How does employer market power affect workers? We compute the concentration of new hires by occupation and commuting zone in France using linked employer-employee data. Using instrumental variables with worker and firm fixed effects, we find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration...
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Do Dutch Dentists Extract Monopoly Rents?
Ketel, Nadine - 2018
outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of …
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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …
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