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The Causal Effect of Competition on Prices and Quality : Evidence from a Field Experiment
Busso, Matias - 2014
The potential benefits of demand side interventions may leak into the profits of suppliers whenever there is market power. In those situations, governments could attempt to regulate the market or to increase competition. We provide the first experimental evidence on the effect of increased...
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Education Reform in General Equilibrium : Evidence from California's Class Size Reduction
Gilraine, Michael - 2018
This paper sheds new light on general equilibrium responses to major education reforms, focusing on a sorting mechanism likely to operate whenever a reform improves public school quality significantly. It does so in the context of California's statewide class size reduction program of the...
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Much Ado About Nothing : American Jobs and the Rise of Service Outsourcing to China and India
Liu, Runjuan - 2008
China and India have been particularly strong. Then workers in occupations that are exposed to inshoring and offshore …We examine the impact on U.S. labor markets of offshore outsourcing in services to China and India. We also consider … China and India. Using March-to-March matched CPS data for 1996-2006 we examine the impacts on (1) occupation and industry …
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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development
Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...
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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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Risk, Insurance and Wages in General Equilibrium
Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq - 2014
and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …
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The Aggregate Importance of Intermediate Input Substitutability
Peter, Alessandra; Ruane, Cian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate long-run elasticities of substitution between intermediate inputs for Indian manufacturing plants. India … the India-U.S. TFP gap in any one sector are on average 29% larger with our estimated elasticities; losses from …
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Does The Market Reward Quality? : Evidence from India
Wagner, Zachary - 2019
studies in India that provide unique insight into this issue. First, we use a discrete choice experiment to show that patients …
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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit-Study Evidence from Primary Care in India
Das, Jishnu - 2015
We present the first direct evidence on the relative quality of public and private healthcare in a low-income setting, using a unique set of audit studies. We sent standardized (fake) patients to rural primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, and recorded the quality of care...
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Does Management Matter in Schools
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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