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of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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This paper revisits the decades-old puzzle of the inverse plot-size productivity relationship, which states that land … productivity decreases as plot size increases. Existing empirical studies on the inverse plot-size productivity relationship define … land productivity or yields as self-reported production divided by plot size. This paper considers an alternative approach …
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This paper revisits the role of land measurement error in the inverse farm size and productivity relationship. By …
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This paper examines the agricultural productivity?farm size relationship in the context of Bangladesh. Features of … Bangladesh's agriculture help overcome several limitations in testing the inverse farm size?productivity relationship in other … result in misleading conclusions on the farm size?productivity relationship. Empirically, the findings confirm that the farm …
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Noncompliance with regulations by enterprises is said to be rife in developing countries. Yet there is limited systematic evidence of the magnitude of noncompliance at the enterprise level. Making innovative use of two complementary data sources, this paper quantifies noncompliance for India's...
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The paper estimates the rates of return to investment in education in Egypt, allowing for multiple sources of heterogeneity across individuals. The paper finds that, in the period 1998-2006, returns to education increased for workers with higher education, but fell for workers with intermediate...
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corroborated in the data, as potential exit is not predicated on the size of firms, their age, or their productivity …
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This paper proposes a new interpretation of the farm size-productivity relationship. Using two rounds of the Ethiopian … relationship between farm size and productivity is neither monotonic nor univocal. Most previous studies that tested the inverse … farm size-productivity relationship used ordinary least squares estimation, therefore reporting parameter estimates at the …
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A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the inverse farm size-yield relationship weakened significantly over time, despite an increase in the dispersion of farm sizes. Key reasons are substitution of capital for labor in...
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Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
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