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Return on Returns : Building Scientific Capacity in AIDS Endemic Countries

Fry, Caroline; Ganguli, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We estimate spillovers from public funding for health research in the context of the NIH's Fogarty International Center's AIDS International Training and Research Program, which aims to strengthen scientific capacity in AIDS endemic countries by providing African researchers with training...

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The Economics of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Poor Countries

Miguel, Edward; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

-economic effects in terms of living standards, education, health, and gender equality, which appear to be unprecedented in depth and …

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Constitutional Rights and Education : An International Comparative Study

Edwards, Sebastian - 2014

specifically, we analyze whether including the right to education in the constitution has been related to better "educational … estimation technique: we find that there is no evidence that including the right to education in the constitution has been … associated with higher test scores. The quality of education depends on socioeconomic, structural, and policy variables, such as …

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Human Capital and Climate Change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education … combat climate change. Results show a year of education increases pro-climate beliefs, behaviors, most policy preferences …

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The 2021 Paycheck Protection Program Reboot : Loan Disbursement to Employer and Nonemployer Businesses in Minority Communities

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Was the $278 billion reboot of the $800 billion Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) in early 2021 disbursed equitably to minority communities? This paper provides the first analysis of how PPP funds were disbursed to minority communities in the third and final round of the program, which was...

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Fiscal Policy in the Age of COVID : Does it ‘Get in all of the Cracks?'

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

. We find: (a) Absent government support, the failure rate of SMEs would have increased by 9 percentage points …

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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

Howell, Sabrina T. - 2020

This paper examines how employee earnings at small firms respond to a cash flow shock in the form of a government R&D grant. We use ranking data on applicant firms, which we link to IRS W2 earnings and other U.S. Census Bureau datasets. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...

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COVID-19 and SME Failures

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2020

We estimate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on business failures among small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in … aggregate supply, productivity, and demand shocks. We estimate a large increase in the failure rate of SMEs under COVID-19 of …, Education, and Other Services are among the most affected sectors. The jobs at risk due to COVID-19 related SME business …

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners : The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

Bartik, Alexander W. - 2020

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aimed to quickly deliver hundreds of billions of dollars of loans to small businesses, with the loans administered via private banks. In this paper, we use firm-level data to document the demand and supply of PPP funds. Using an instrumental variables...

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