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Why Liquidity Matters to the Export Decision of the Firm

Chan, Rosanna C. - 2017

Under financial constraints, exporting may have less to do with productivity and more to do with financial resources. The established relationship between exporting and productivity would differ when examined through the lens of the working capital needs of the firm. The hypothesis that working...

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Motivating Bureaucrats Through Social Recognition : Evidence from Simultaneous Field Experiments

Gauri, Varun - 2018

Bureaucratic performance is a crucial determinant of economic growth. Little is known about how to improve it in resource-constrained settings. This study describes a field trial of a social recognition intervention to improve record keeping in clinics in two Nigerian states, replicating the...

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Political Budget Cycles and the Organization of Political Parties

Hanusch, Marek - 2017

This paper introduces a new explanation for political budget cycles: politicians have stronger incentives to increase spending around elections in the presence of younger political parties. Previous research has shown that political budget cycles are larger when voters are uninformed about...

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Can Labor Market Imperfections Explain Changes in the Inverse Farm Size? Productivity Relationship? Longitudinal Evidence from Rural India

Deininger, Klaus W. - 2017

A large national farm panel from India covering a quarter century (1982, 1999, and 2008) is used to show that the …

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Asymmetric Information About Migrant Earnings and Remittance Flows

Seshan, Ganesh K. - 2017

This paper examine asymmetric information about migrant earnings and its implications for remittance behavior using a sample of Indian households with husbands working overseas in Qatar. On average, wives underreport their husbands? income and underreporting is more prevalent in households with...

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Does Piped Water Reduce Diarrhea for Children in Rural India?

Jalan, Jyotsna - 2017

influencing the incidence of child health gains from access to piped water in rural India. Using propensity score matching methods …

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Caste System

Hoff, Karla Ruth - 2017

that estimates the economic costs of the caste system in particular environments: (1) In North India, discrimination … lower-caste children enrolled in English-language schools in Mumbai after India opened itself up to the world market grew …

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Understanding India's Urban Frontier : What is Behind the Emergence of Census Towns in India?

Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Partha - 2017

This paper presents the results of an investigation of selected census towns in northern India. Census towns are … settlements that India's census classifies as urban although they continue to be governed as rural settlements. The 2011 census …

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Benefits of Electrification and the Role of Reliability : Evidence from India

Samad, Hussain A. - 2017

This paper estimates the welfare impact of rural electrification in India using nationally representative household ….6 percent increase in income. The net gain from both increasing the access rate and reducing power outages in rural India is … estimated to be US$11 billion a year. Moreover, India's rural electrification policy appears to be progressive because lower …

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Deregulation and Firm Investment : Evidence from the Dismantling of the License System in India

Kandilov, Ivan T. - 2017

This paper analyzes analyze the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory …

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