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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...
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least partly due to India's younger age distribution. In this paper, we use age-specific fatality rates from 14 comparison …India's case fatality rate (CFR) under covid-19 is strikingly low, trending from 3% or more, to a current level of … countries, coupled with India's distribution of covid-19 cases to "predict" what India's CFR would be with those age …
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establishments to quantify the potential extent of misallocation in China and India compared to the U.S. Compared to the U.S., we … India. When capital and labor are hypothetically reallocated to equalize marginal products to the extent observed in the U ….S., we calculate manufacturing TFP gains of 30-50% in China and 40-60% in India …
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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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randomized trials in India, Sri Lanka and Ghana, we show that the gender gap in microenterprise performance is not due to a gap …
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …
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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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survey conducted in China, India, Japan, and the United States. It finds striking inter-country differences in bequest plans …
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