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quarter of 2020 in municipalities of Northern Italian. The study accounts for potentially spatial confounding factors related … geographical information (e.g., municipalities) and Poisson regression to assess whether both ambient PM concentration and excess …
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created 11 municipalities between 1994 and 2004. Using territories that sought, but failed to, achieve independence as … controls, we find that schools in newly created municipalities, on average, experienced a standard deviation decline of 0.2 in … classroom teachers and school management teams in newly created municipalities. In contrast, we found that reducing the size of …
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India's economic standing and its policy landscape have come a long way since the 1943 Bengal famine. History saw buffer stocking of food grains as a famine-combating tool. Today, apart from serving as an effective hedge in times of famines, such grain stocks are a conduit deployed by the...
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China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
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This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and because most European and American households with...
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This paper documents the effects of an intervention on knowledge sharing, in which information embedded in efficient private organizations is used to improve bureaucratic procedures of public agencies. In particular, it analyzes the impact of the Knowledge for Results (K4R) program on the...
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differences in the avail-ability of health professionals across municipalities and cohorts. In municipalities with one fewer …
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