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Creative Destruction, Distance to Frontier, and Economic Development
Peters, Michael; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
remain small. We estimate the parameters of the model using firm-level data for India and the United States. We study the …
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Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
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Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Ejaz - 2011
We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among … extensive evidence of agglomeration economies among manufacturing industries. In particular, supportive incumbent industrial … economies for entry hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large …
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Aggregate Implications of Barriers to Female Entrepreneurship
Chiplunkar, Gaurav; Goldberg, Pinelopi K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a framework for identifying and quantifying barriers to entry and operation faced by female entrepreneurs in developing countries, and apply it to the Indian economy. We find that despite considerable progress over time, female entrepreneurs still face substantial entry and business...
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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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Are There Too Many Farms in the World? Labor-Market Transaction Costs, Machine Capacities and Optimal Farm Size
Foster, Andrew D. - 2017
scales. Using data from the India ICRISAT VLS panel survey we find evidence consistent with these conditions, suggesting that …
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Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education and business education have...
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General Equilibrium Effects of (Improving) Public Employment Programs : Experimental Evidence from India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
the implementation of India's employment guarantee. Without changing government expenditure, this reform raised low …
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Self-Control and Demand for Preventive Health : Evidence from Hypertension in India
Bai, Liang - 2017
increasing preventive doctor visits by hypertensive patients in rural India. We document varying levels of takeup of the …
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Age of Marriage, Weather Shocks, and the Direction of Marriage Payments
Corno, Lucia - 2017
particularly child marriage, in Sub-Saharan Africa and in India, where substantial monetary or in-kind transfers occur with … marriage: bride price across Sub-Saharan Africa and dowry in India. In a simple equilibrium model of the marriage market in … two regions: in Sub-Saharan Africa, they increase the annual hazard into child marriage by 3%, while in India droughts …
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