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This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined...
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A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...
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This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...
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In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam …
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alone. Finally, using calculations from J-PAL fieldwork, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80 …
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for distortions to explain large TFP gaps. The effect of curvature on the impact and measurement of distortions is also …
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The ratio of revenue to inputs differs greatly across plants within countries such as the U.S. and India. Such gaps may … measurement error. Our method exploits how revenue growth is less sensitive to input growth when a plant’s average products are … overstated by measurement error. For Indian manufacturing from 1985-2013, our correction lowers potential gains from reallocation …
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of magnitude more markets, capture more of India's urban population, are more realistically jagged in shape, and reveal …
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provide new evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India …
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Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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