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A Detailed Anatomy of Factor Misallocation in India
Duranton, Gilles - 2019
This paper complements the results of earlier work on factor misallocation. The paper first expands the methodology and provides two important decompositions for the main indices. The main result is that factor and output misallocation across districts is at least as important as misallocation...
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Effects of Land Misallocation on Capital Allocations in India
Duranton, Gilles - 2019
Growing research and policy interest focuses on the misallocation of output and factors of production in developing economies. This paper considers the possible misallocation of financial loans. Using plant-level data on the organized and unorganized sectors, the paper describes the temporal,...
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The Misallocation of Land and Other Factors of Production in India
Duranton, Gilles - 2019
Indian districts during 1989-2010. It first distills a number of stylized facts about misallocation in India, and … demonstrates the validity of misallocation metrics by connecting them to regulatory changes in India that affected real property …. Although more-productive establishments in India tend to produce more output, factors of production are grossly misallocated. A …
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Growth, Urbanization, and Poverty Reduction in India
Datt, Gaurav - 2017
India spanning 60 years, including 20 years since reforms began in earnest in 1991. The study finds a downward trend in …
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What Determines Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Emerging Markets? The Role of Initial Conditions
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
the early lifecycle of firms across diverse institutional environments of regions in India. It finds that the size and …
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Does Local Financial Development Matter for Firm Lifecycle in India?
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
The differences in financial development across Indian states, while seeming substantial, have a minor effect on firm lifecycle and growth. These results hold controlling for differences in labor regulations across states, capital intensity, and for firms born before and after the major reforms....
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Size and Age of Establishments : Evidence from Developing Countries
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
years old or younger. The analysis finds consistent evidence when it looks within a large country, India, based on detailed …
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Is Workfare Cost-Effective Against Poverty in a Poor Labor-Surplus Economy?
Murgai, Rinku - 2017
used to assess the cost-effectiveness of India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar. Participants are found to have …
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Testing Information Constraints on India's Largest Antipoverty Program
Ravallion, Martin - 2017
Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar …
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Long-Term Impacts of Household Electrification in Rural India
van de Walle, Dominique P. - 2017
India's huge expansion in rural electrification in the 1980s and 1990s offers lessons for other countries today. The … paper examines the long-term effects of household electrification on consumption, labor supply, and schooling in rural India …
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