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India's Patterns of Development : What Happened, What Follows
Kochhar, Kalpana - 2006
India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian … economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has … they stem from the idiosyncratic policies adopted soon after India's independence. We then look to the future, using the …
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Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958
Cullen, Joseph - 2006
Studies of the development of local economies often point to large-scale World War II military spending as a source of long-term economic growth, even though the spending declined sharply after the demobilization. We examine the longer term impact of the temporary war spending on county...
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Tracking Weekly State-Level Economic Conditions
Baumeister, Christiane; Leiva-Leon, Danilo; Sims, Eric R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In this paper, we develop a novel dataset of weekly economic conditions indices for the 50 U.S. states going back to 1987 based on mixed-frequency dynamic factor models with weekly, monthly, and quarterly variables that cover multiple dimensions of state economies. We show that there is...
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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production : Evidence from US States 1950-1990
Ciccone, Antonio - 2011
We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production. Shifts in the industry composition towards more...
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Human Capital and Regional Development
Gennaioli, Nicola - 2011
We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world's surface and 96 percent of its GDP. We combine the cross-regional analysis of geographic, institutional, cultural, and...
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Sustaining Impacts When Transfers End : Women Leaders, Aspirations, and Investment in Children
Macours, Karen - 2016
Numerous evaluations show that conditional cash transfer programs change households' investments in their young children, but there are many open questions about how such changes can be sustained after transfers end. This paper analyzes the role of social interactions with local female leaders...
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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores
Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011
school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
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Economic Opportunities and Gender Differences in Human Capital : Experimental Evidence for India
Jensen, Robert T. - 2010
Gender differences in health and education are a concern for a number of developing countries. While standard theory predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though...
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Accounting for Growth : Comparing China and India
Bosworth, Barry - 2007
We compare the recent economic performances of China and India using a simple growth accounting framework that produces … roughly double that of India at the aggregate level, and also higher in each of the three sectors in both sub-periods. In …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …
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Consumption Risk and Human Capital Accumulation in India
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
the household. We test the model using data from rural India, focusing particularly on the schooling of girls. We find …
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