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Analyzing Regional Variation in Health Care Utilization Using (Rich) Household Microdata
Eibich, Peter - 2013
This paper exploits rich SOEP microdata to analyze state-level variation in health care utilization in Germany. Unlike most studies in the field of the Small Area Variation (SAV) literature, our approach allows us to net out a large array of individual-level and state-level factors that may...
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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...
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The Impact of Physical Education on Obesity Among Elementary School Children
Cawley, John - 2012
have advocated increasing the time that elementary school children spend in physical education (PE) classes. However …
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Broadband Internet : An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Bhuller, Manudeep - 2014
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...
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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications
Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021
It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality …
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Bright Investments : Measuring the Impact of Transport Infrastructure Using Luminosity Data in Haiti
Mitnik, Oscar A. - 2019
This paper quantifies the impacts of transport infrastructure investments on economic activity in Haiti, using … benefited by a transport infrastructure project. We observe temporal and spatial variation in results, and crucially that the …
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021
, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …
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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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