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Enterprise Zones, Poverty, and Labor Market Outcomes : Resolving Conflicting Evidence

Neumark, David - 2019

This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, İmrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error...

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Inefficient Water Pricing and Incentives for Conservation

Chakravorty, Ujjayant - 2019

We use two randomized controlled trials in Bangladesh to study a simple water conservation technology for rice …

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Social Norms and Misinformation : Experimental Evidence on Learning About Menstrual Health Management in Rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

with women in rural Bangladesh, we measure social norms in the form of empirical and normative expectations about menstrual …

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The Determinants of Subnational Public Spending Allocation for Disaster Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

Karim, Azreen - 2020

disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation in Bangladesh, a country with a very high exposure to weather risk. We use a … comprehensive dataset for the 483 sub-districts (Upazilas) in Bangladesh, tracking disaster risk reduction and adaptation funding … transfers, provided that it is allocated rationally. Broadly, this appears to be the case in Bangladesh. We leave the measuring …

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Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh

Kee, Hiau-Looi - 2020

on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of …

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Layoffs and Productivity at a Bangladeshi Sweater Factory

Akerlof, Robert - 2020

Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. We study how workers in a large Bangladeshi sweater factory responded to management's decision to lay off about a quarter of the workers following a period of labor unrest. Our main finding is...

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Information, coordination, and the industrialization of countries

Englmaier, Florian; Reisinger, Markus - 2006

The industrialization process of a country is often plagued by a failure to coordinate investment decisions. Using the …

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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

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Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization: A quantitative analysis

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - 2012

We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or …

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Did Caselaw Foster England's Economic Development During the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence

Murrell, Peter; Grajzl, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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