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American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications … of the spatial equilibrium hypothesis, the central organizing idea of urban economics, are not rejected. The India data …
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's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...
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In this paper, I analyze detailed data on intergenerational transfers in 4 countries (China, India, Japan, and the …
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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and …
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aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …
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. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …
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under favorable and unfavorable fossil-fuel price regimes. The model includes Russia, the U.S., China, India, the EU, and … Japan+ (Japan plus Korea). The model predicts dramatic increases in tax rates in the U.S., EU, India, and Russia. Indeed …
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