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This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity …
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This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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production capacity to hedge against supply and demand shocks. But the social benefits of such investments are not internalized …
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, production reallocates toward firms that use software more intensively, as they become effectively more productive. Because in …
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Why do establishments exhibit wide variation in their productivity and profitability? Can variation in returns to advertising help answer this question? We present results from a large field experiment on Facebook and Instagram that documents variance in advertisers' ability to generate returns...
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This paper describes the response of the economy to large shocks in a nonlinear production network. While arbitrary … downstream closeness to final production. The paper then uses the results to analyze the determinants of total tail risk in the …
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We document the role of intangible capital in manufacturing firms' substantial contribution to non-manufacturing employment growth from 1977-2019. Exploiting data on firms' "auxiliary" establishments, we develop a novel measure of proprietary in-house knowledge and show that it is associated...
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include the creation and maintenance of a brand name and all its corresponding brand elements (e.g., awareness, reputation …
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Well-functioning markets allocate assets to owners that improve firms' management and performance. We study the effects of ownership changes on coffee mills in Rwanda - an industry in which managing relationships with farmers and seasonal workers is important and that has seen many ownership...
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show that under standard assumptions about the production function, the value loss from using the CAPM can be sizable, of …
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