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Productivity Effects of Tve Privatization : The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region

Sonobe, Tetsushi; Ōtsuka, Keijirō - 2021

While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly … and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource … allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the fuller understanding of the effect of privatization, this study …

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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : the Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions

Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016

among top 20 largest cities by population. We estimate the cost savings from privatization and explore the political economy … of why privatization rates are lower in high cost unionized areas. Our analysis finds that the full privatizaton could …

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Common Practice : Spillovers from Medicare on Private Health Care

Barnett, Michael L. - 2020

Efforts to raise the productivity of the U.S. health care system have proceeded slowly. One potential explanation is the fragmentation of payment across insurers. Each insurer's efforts to improve care could influence how doctors practice medicine for other insurers, leading to unvalued...

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The Rise of State-Connected Private Owners in China

Bai, Chong-En; Hsieh, Chang-Tai; Song, Zheng (Michael); … - 2021

We use administrative registration records with information on the owners of all Chinese firms to document their connections through equity investments. We show that the largest private owners have direct equity ties with state owners, the next largest private owners have equity ties with...

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Rural Demography, Public Services and Land Rights in Africa : a Village-Level Analysis in Burkina Faso

McMillan, Margaret - 2012

This paper uses historical census data from Burkina Faso to characterize local demographic pressures associated with internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to document change over time and differences across villages...

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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-Run and Long-Run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...

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Business Literacy and Development : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderon, Gabriela - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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Public Contracting for Private Innovation : Government Expertise, Decision Rights, and Performance Outcomes

Bruce, Joshua R. - 2018

We examine how the U.S. Federal Government governs R&D contracts with private-sector firms. The government chooses between two contractual forms: grants and cooperative agreements. The latter provides the government substantially greater discretion over, and monitoring of, project progress....

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Intellectual Property Rights Protection, Ownership, and Innovation : Evidence from China

Fang, Lily Hua - 2016

Using a difference-in-difference approach, we study how intellectual property right (IPR) protection affects innovation … in China in the years around the privatizations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Innovation increases after SOE …

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Diversity in Innovation

Gompers, Paul A. - 2017

In this paper we document the patterns of labor market participation by women and ethnic minorities in venture capital firms and as founders of venture capital-backed startups. We show that from 1990-2016 women have been less than 10% of the entrepreneurial and venture capital labor pool,...

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