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pharmaceutical trade data from 1996 to 2005, we examine the role of China and India as suppliers of medicines to other middle- and … medicines from high- income countries. We find that imports of antibiotics and unspecified medicaments from India and China … significantly depress the average price of these commodities imported from high-income trading partners, suggesting that India and …
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. We calibrate the model to firm-level data from the U.S. and India. We show that the model is quantitatively consistent … quantitative analysis shows that the low efficiency of delegation in India can account for 5% of productivity and 15% of income … differences between the U.S. and India in steady state. We also show that such inefficient delegation possibilities reduce the …
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premia. This paper characterizes the spatial distributions of skills in Brazil, China, and India. To facilitate comparisons …. These lights-based metropolitan areas mirror commuting-based definitions in the United States and Brazil. In China and India … agglomeration is also skill-biased in Brazil, China, and India.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and …
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This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
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patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …
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hydroelectric power availability. We estimate that India's average reported level of shortages reduces the average plant's revenues …
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and informal sector manufacturing firms in India, Indonesia, and Mexico, we document three facts. First, while there are a … from expanding. Third, we examine regulatory and tax notches in India, Indonesia, and Mexico of the sort often thought to …
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In 2005, as the result of a World Trade Organization mandate, India began to implement product patents for … pharmaceutical product sales data for India with a newly gathered dataset of molecule-linked patents issued by the Indian patent …
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particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … two regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa, they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts …
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protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …
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