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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
Bangladesh, Chile, Ghana, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria and Sri Lanka. We show that variation in business practices explains as much of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016653
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Wage and Productivity Premiums in Sub-Saharan Africa
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2013
accurate test. The results indicate that equality holds strongly for the most developed country in the sample (Zimbabwe), but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753873
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana
McMillan, Margaret - 2019
We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …
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The Impact of Domestic Travel Bans on Covid-19 is Nonlinear in Their Duration
Burlig, Fiona; Sudarshan, Anant; Schlauch, Garrison - 2021
using a natural experiment in India as well as data from China, Indonesia, the Philippines, South Africa, and Kenya …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013230605
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Keeping the Doctor Away : Experimental Evidence on Investment in Preventative Health Products
Meredith, Jennifer - 2013
curves for health products in Kenya, Guatemala, India, and Uganda and test whether (1) information about health risk, (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077947
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Education as Liberation?
Friedman, Willa - 2011
impacts of a randomized girls' merit scholarship incentive program in Kenya that raised test scores and secondary schooling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127419
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From Russia with Love : The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Falck, Oliver - 2014
We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069687
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The Consequences of Entrepreneurial Finance : A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Kerr, William - 2014
This paper documents the role of angel funding for the growth, survival, and access to follow-on funding of high-growth start-up firms. We use a regression discontinuity approach to control for unobserved heterogeneity between firms that obtain funding and those that do not. This technique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070159
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And the Children Shall Lead : Gender Diversity and Performance in Venture Capital
Gompers, Paul A. - 2017
With an overall lack of gender and ethnic diversity in the innovation sector documented in Gompers and Wang (2017), we ask the natural next question: Does increased diversity lead to better firm performances? In this paper, we attempt to answer this question using a unique dataset of the gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955439
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What is a Patent Worth? Evidence from the U.S. Patent “Lottery”
Farre-Mensa, Joan - 2017
We provide evidence on the value of patents to startups by leveraging the quasi-random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents. Using unique data on all first-time applications filed at the U.S. Patent Office since 2001, we find that startups that win...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960171