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globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …
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Women's empowerment and economic development are closely related: in one direction, development alone can play a major role in driving down inequality between men and women; in the other direction, empowering women may benefit development. Does this imply that pushing just one of these two...
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mismatches, continued globalization and technological change, greater income inequality, unprecedented population aging in richer … development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all … “fundamentals” challenge in growth. Out of these seven countries, the traditional path to rapid growth of export oriented …
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patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment … in India, the Middle East, and North Africa, for example. I also discuss why the sex ratio has become more male …
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Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....
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the export sector. We then estimate this model using pooled data on four pollutants over ten years. Econometric results …
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Explanations of economic growth and prosperity commonly identify a unique causal effect, e.g., institutions, culture, human capital, geography. In this paper we provide instead a theoretical modeling of the interaction between culture and institutions and their effects on economic activity. We...
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entrepreneurs have fixed-time endowments to run their daily operations. As firms grow larger, the need to delegate decision …. We calibrate the model to firm-level data from the U.S. and India. We show that the model is quantitatively consistent … quantitative analysis shows that the low efficiency of delegation in India can account for 5% of productivity and 15% of income …
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We quantify the link between the timing of state-level implementations of political reservations for women in India … with the role of women in India's manufacturing sector. While overall employment of women in manufacturing does not …/informal sector. These new establishments were concentrated in industries where women entrepreneurs have been traditionally active and …
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, India, we find that “gung ho entrepreneurs” (GEs), households who were already running a business before microfinance … model of technology choice in which talented entrepreneurs can access either a diminishing-returns technology, or a more … entrepreneurial ability is important and persistent. For talented but low-wealth entrepreneurs, short-term access to credit can indeed …
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