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The research and development (R&D) sector is considered one of the main driving forces of sustainable growth in the long run. The sector, however, also shows excessive volatility which raises interesting questions regarding the sources of this volatility as well as the nature of the relation...
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This paper studies the relative academic performance of students tracked or randomly assigned to South African university dormitories. Tracked or streamed assignment creates dormitories where all students obtained similar scores on high school graduation examinations. Random assignment creates...
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Management of common-pool resources in the absence of individual pricing can lead to suboptimal allocation. In the context of irrigation schemes, this can create water scarcity even when there is sufficient water to meet the total requirements. High-frequency data from three irrigation schemes...
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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 analyzes changes in agricultural productivity gender gaps in C?te d'Ivoire between 2008 and 2016 using …, but it is particularly remarkable for export crop productivity, likely due to increased adoption of fertilizer and …
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tight link between exemplary performance and initial plant productivity, which is robust to many controls, including plant … associated with subsequent growth in firm productivity …
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The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …
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This paper examines the determinants of the productivity of Nigerian firms, using three waves of Enterprise Surveys … from 2007, 2009, and 2014 and 7,670 firms. The paper uses three alternative measures of productivity, which are found to be … highly correlated: labor productivity, value added per worker, and total factor productivity. The more notable trends in the …
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productivity in Pakistan. The analysis finds that a 10 percent increase in the duration of outages on average leads to a 0 …
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business environment variables at the subnational level in explaining firm employment and productivity growth. The analysis …
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