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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the …
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We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary data through an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: “leaders” and “managers”. Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers...
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 …th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. India underwent secular … deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to …
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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In this paper we build a model of market competition among religious denominations, using a framework that involves incomplete contracts and the production of club goods. We treat denominations akin to multinational enterprises, which decide which countries to enter based on local market...
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We study the causal impact of religiosity through a randomized evaluation of an evangelical Protestant Christian values and theology education program delivered to thousands of ultra-poor Filipino households. Six months after the program ended, treated households have higher religiosity and...
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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This paper analyzes whether commodity futures prices traded in the United States reveal information relevant to stock prices of East Asian economies including China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan. We find significant and positive predictive powers of overnight futures returns of...
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