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Ljungqvist, Alexander - 2015

We study the efficiency of capital allocations at state-controlled and privately owned business groups in China. Using …

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Efficiency and Equity in Schools around the World

Hanushek, Eric A. - 2002

of developed and developing countries show general problems with the efficiency of resource usage similar to those found …

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Alternative Compensation Arrangements and Productive Efficiency in Partnerships : Evidence from Medical Group Practice

Gaynor, Martin - 1987

arrangements on productive efficiency in medical group practices. The technique employed is two-stage production frontier … estimation. This technique provides direct estimates of productive efficiency and allows for differences across agents in ability … or responsiveness to financial incentives. In the frontier literature productive efficiency is assumed to be exogenously …

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Corruption in Chinese Privatizations

Fisman, Raymond - 2014

aggregate ownership transfers improve profitability, though not in cases where the transfers themselves were corrupted …

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Production Function Estimation without Invertibility : Imperfectly Competitive Environments and Demand Shocks

Doraszelski, Ulrich; Li, Lixiong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

. Furthermore, we show how a modification of the procedure ensures Neyman orthogonality, enhancing efficiency and robustness by …

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Human Capital Development and Parental Investment in India

Attanasio, Orazio - 2015

We estimate production functions for cognition and health for children aged 1-12 in India, where over 70 million children aged 0-5 are at risk of developmental deficits. The inputs into the production functions include parental background, prior child cognition and health, and child investments....

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Estimating the Production Function for Human Capital : Results from a Randomized Control Trial in Colombia

Attanasio, Orazio - 2015

We examine the channels through which a randomized early childhood intervention in Colombia led to significant gains in cognitive and socio-emotional skills among a sample of disadvantaged children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline. We estimate the determinants of parents' material and time...

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Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?

Nanda, Ramana - 2014

We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, we also show that because a sufficient number of R&D intensive firms...

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The (Changing) Knowledge Production Function : Evidence from the MIT Department of Biology for 1970-2000

Conti, Annamaria - 2014

Considerable attention has been focused, in recent years, on the role that graduate and postdoc students play in the production of academic knowledge. Using data from the MIT Department of Biology for the period 1970-2000, we analyze the evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their...

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Credit History : The Changing Nature of Scientific Credit

Gans, Joshua S. - 2013

This paper considers the role of the allocation of scientific credit in determining the organization of science. We examine changes in that organization and the nature of credit allocation in the past half century. Our contribution is a formal model of that organizational choice that considers...

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