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Agarwal, Nikhil - 2014

product of labor, with larger markdowns at more desirable programs. Therefore, a limited number of positions at high quality … market. I find that financial incentives increase the quality, but not the number of rural residents. Quantity regulations … increase the number of rural trainees, but the impact on resident quality depends on the design of the intervention …

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Unconditional Convergence

Rodrik, Dani - 2011

Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The paper documents this finding for 4-digit manufacturing sectors for a large group of developed and developing countries over the period since 1990. The coefficient of unconditional...

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Cyclical Variation in Labor Hours and Productivity Using the ATUS

Burda, Michael C. - 2012

We examine monthly variation in weekly work hours using data for 2003-10 from the Current Population Survey (CPS) on hours/worker, from the Current Employment Survey (CES) on hours/job, and from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) on both. The ATUS data minimize recall difficulties and constrain...

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Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity : Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

Imberman, Scott A. - 2012

Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests, we estimate the impact of incentive strength on student achievement. These awards are based on the performances of students within a grade, school and subject,...

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Cost-Sharing and Productivity

Gibson, Teresa - 2012

A growing body of literature examines the cross price elasticities between different health care services. For example, increasing the patient out of pocket price for some health care services increases the utilization of other health care services. Yet, the literature has generally ignored the...

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The Value of Bosses

Lazear, Edward P. - 2014

10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper 10% of boss quality increases a team's total output by more than would …

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The Aggregate Productivity Effects of Internal Migration : Evidence from Indonesia

Bryan, Gharad - 2017

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia, accounting for worker selection and spatial differences in human capital. We distinguish between movement costs, which mean workers will only move if they expect higher wages, and...

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Industrial Productivity in a Hotter World : The Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Firm Investment in Air Conditioning

Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2016

How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate conditions and economic activity across a nation's cities will together determine industrial average exposure to climate risk. Air conditioning (AC) can greatly reduce this heat...

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Performance Information and Personnel Decisions in the Public Sector : The Case of School Principals

Cullen, Julie Berry - 2016

possibility that inadequate information and a flawed structure each compromise public school quality. This study of school … incentives and principal productivity and adversely affect the quality of education in Texas public schools …

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Exploring Reallocation's Apparent Weak Contribution to Growth

Nishida, Mitsukuni - 2015

Two recent meta-analyses use variants of the Baily, Hulten, and Campbell (1992) (BHC) decompositions to ask whether recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input reallocation. They find weak gains from measured...

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