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Place-Based Policies
Neumark, David - 2014
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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State Incentives for Innovation, Star Scientists and Jobs : Evidence from Biotech
Moretti, Enrico - 2015
We evaluate the effects of state-provided financial incentives for biotech companies, which are part of a growing trend of placed-based policies designed to spur innovation clusters. We estimate that the adoption of subsidies for biotech employers by a state raises the number of star biotech...
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The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress
Agarwal, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of the reforms initiated in India following the balance of payments (BOP) crisis of … changes in performance since the reforms, which started in China in 1979 and in India in 1991. Such a comparison shows more … progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and India lags behind other South Asian countries. The responsiveness …
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The Miracle of Microfinance? Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation
Duflo, Esther - 2013
-based lending product in a new market. In 2005, half of 104 slums in Hyderabad, India were randomly selected for opening of a branch …
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Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size : Evidence from India
Alfaro, Laura - 2014
This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …
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Highway to Success : The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
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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Measuring the Equilibrium Impacts of Credit : Evidence from the Indian Microfinance Crisis
Breza, Emily - 2018
In October 2010, the state government of Andhra Pradesh, India issued an emergency ordinance, bringing microfinance …
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Is a Decentralized Right-to-Work Policy Feasible?
Ravallion, Martin - 2019
Evidence on the implementation of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act suggests that the available work is …
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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016
Pratham's “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2016
learning outcomes. Our setting is middle-school grades in urban India, where a lottery provided winning students with a voucher …
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