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Managing to Learn
Beg, Sabrin; Fitzpatrick, Anne E.; Lucas, Adrienne M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
To improve public services, public sector managers must encourage reticent civil servants to enact effective reforms. We show through a randomized controlled trial that school principals, i.e., school mangers, can act as leaders to improve Instructional Management (0.3SD) and student learning...
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
redistribution and a modest effect of two year led inequality …
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The Political Economy of a "Miracle Cure" : The Case of Nebulized Ibuprofen and its Diffusion in Argentina
Calónico, Sebastian; Di Tella, Rafael; Lopez del … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We document the diffusion of nebulized ibuprofen in Argentina as a treatment for COVID-19. As the pandemic spread, this clinically unsupported drug reached thousands of patients, even some seriously ill, despite warnings by the regulator and medical societies. Detailed daily data on deliveries...
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The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform : Lessons from Wisconsin's Act 10
Biasi, Barbara; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
Public service reforms often provoke political backlash. Can they also yield political benefits for the politicians who champion them? We study a Wisconsin law that weakened teachers' unions and liberalized pay, prompting mass protests. Exploiting its staggered implementation across school...
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Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company
Le Bris, David; Goetzmann, William N.; Pouget, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
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Prison Labor : The Price of Prisons and the Lasting Effects of Incarceration
Archibong, Belinda; Obikili, Nonso - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Institutions of justice, like prisons, can be used to serve economic and other extrajudicial interests, with lasting deleterious effects. We study the effects on incarceration when prisoners are primarily used as a source of labor using evidence from British colonial Nigeria. We digitized 65...
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Protection for Whom? The Political Economy of Protective Labor Laws for Women
Doepke, Matthias; Foerster, Hanno; Hannusch, Anne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
During the first half of the twentieth century, many US states enacted laws restricting women's labor market opportunities, including maximum hours restrictions, minimum wage laws, and night-shift bans. The era of so-called protective labor laws came to an end in the 1960s as a result of civil...
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Deposit and Credit Reallocation in a Banking Panic : The Role of State-Owned Banks
Acharya, Viral V.; Das, Abhiman; Kulkarni, Nirupama; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study a bank run in India in which private bank branches experience sudden and considerable loss of deposits that seek safety in state-owned public sector banks (PSBs). We trace the consequences of this reallocation using granular data on bank-firm relationships and branch balance sheets. The...
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Cities as Engines of Opportunities : Evidence from Brazil
Barza, Radu; Glaeser, Edward L.; Hidalgo, César A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Are developing-world cities engines of opportunities for low-wage earners? In this study, we track a cohort of young low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that...
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Fallow Lengths and the Structure of Property Rights
Le Rossignol, Etienne; Lowes, Sara; Montero, Eduardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
development policy and underlying institutions. Finally, we examine implications for income inequality and conflict. We find that … longer fallow requirements are associated with less inequality, less conflict, and greater resilience to negative shocks. Our … results highlight the origins of property rights structures and how communal property rights interact with development …
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