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agriculture. Yet, there is a lack of consensus on its ability to spur structural transformation in rural economies. We present …
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We implemented a randomized intervention among Malawian farmers aimed at facilitating formal savings for agricultural inputs. Treated farmers were offered the opportunity to have their cash crop harvest proceeds deposited directly into new bank accounts in their own names, while farmers in the...
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, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …
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using enterprise data. The GQ project upgraded the quality and width of 5,846 km of roads in India. We use a difference …
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the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. While the secular trend for India's manufacturing …
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We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. We …
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alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …
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Perhaps the most powerful form of framing arises through reference dependence, wherein choices are made recognizing the starting point or a goal. In labor economics, for example, a form of reference dependence, income targeting, has been argued to represent a serious challenge to traditional...
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We use the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys data to analyze the employment of both labor and capital in Indian manufacturing. We focus on disparities among states in manufacturing employment patterns, and provide reduced form evidence of their relationship to both (i) institutional...
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