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What is the impact on intra-national trade and regional economic outcomes when the quality and lane-capacity of an existing paved road network is expanded significantly? We investigate this question for the case of Turkey, which undertook a large-scale public investment in roads during the...
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, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic … integration with global product markets has increased both average income and job turnover in Colombia. In contrast, the …
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This paper studies the effects of marketing choice to firm growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements with continuous arrival of new potential producers. A firm enters a market if it is profitable to incur the marginal cost to reach the first...
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We examine whether the Colombian trade reform can explain any of Colombia's decline in urban poverty between 1984 and …
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satisfaction among employees. We conducted a randomized controlled experiment with a bank in Colombia to change the frequency and …
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We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia …
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
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care models of health insurance in wealthy countries, Colombia's Régimen Subsidiado is a publicly financed insurance …
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We evaluate multiple variants of a commonly used intervention to boost education in developing countries -- the conditional cash transfer (CCT) -- with a student level randomization that allows us to generate intra-family and peer-network variation. We test three treatments: a basic CCT...
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We use a panel of manufacturing plants from Colombia to analyze how the rise in payroll tax rates over the 1980s and … and taxes and the presence of downward wage rigidities in Colombia. Because the costs of taxation are only partly shifted …
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