This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the …

For the past 60 years, India has promoted small-scale industries (SSI). Industrial promotion took the form of reserving … allows them to follow plants over time, and to examine whether small factories in India exhibit faster employment growth than … than smaller, older factories. They then exploit the fact that India eliminated SSI reservations for more than half of all …

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the …

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract … for plantation workers statewide, and (c) applicable equally to all the plantations in the local region. The contract … thresholds and eliminating an existing penalty per unit for low output. In the one month following the contract change, output …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract … for plantation workers statewide, and (c) applicable equally to all the plantations in the local region. The contract … thresholds and eliminating an existing penalty per unit for low output. In the one month following the contract change, output …