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Technology and Trade
Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - 2021
We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent research has attempted to endogenize technological progress...
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Of Time and Space : Technological Spillovers Among Patents and Unpatented Innovations During Early U.S. Industrialization
Khan, B. Zorina - 2014
The paper explores the role of institutional mechanisms in generating technological knowledge spillovers. The estimation is over panel datasets of patent grants, and unpatented innovations that were submitted for prizes at the annual industrial fairs of the American Institute of New York, during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040530
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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa
Rainer, Ilia - 2012
The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100130
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New Cellular Networks in Malawi : Correlates of Service Rollout and Network Performance
Batzilis, Dimitris - 2015
Cellular technologies have become increasingly important in the developing world; infrastructure for mobile networks has expanded dramatically over the past two decades giving access to remote areas without previous phone service. Despite this expansion, relatively little is known about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038375
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Market Access, Trade Costs, and Technology Adoption : Evidence from Northern Tanzania
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018
In this paper, we quantify market access in rural Tanzania, and the extent to which it constrains agricultural …,183 villages in two regions of Tanzania. We find that a village in the 90th percentile of the travel-cost adjusted price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908181
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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture
Gollin, Douglas - 2019
rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895000
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The Effect of the Universal Primary Education Program on Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Tanzania
Delesalle, Esther - 2019
The purpose of this article is to study the effect of education on labor market participation and household consumption in a rural environment. The Tanzanian Universal Primary Education (UPE) program, which provides variations in education across locations and over time, is used as a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012871406
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Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up : Evidence from Tanzania
Diao, Xinshen - 2016
At roughly 4% per annum, labor productivity in Tanzania has grown more rapidly over the past 12 years than at any other …-agricultural employment growth has occurred in the informal sector. Using Tanzania's first nationally representative survey of micro, small … economy-wide labor productivity growth in Tanzania between 2002 and 2012. However, virtually all of the labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977644
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Asymmetry of Information within Family Networks
De Weerdt, Joachim - 2015
Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012609
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How Does Health Promotion Work? Evidence from the Dirty Business of Eliminating Open Defecation
Gertler, Paul J. - 2015
-scale randomized field experiments in four countries: India, Indonesia, Mali, and Tanzania. Health promotion works through a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026802