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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and …. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background … India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing …

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Is foreign direct investment good for growth? Evidence from sectoral analysis of China and Vietnam

Gangnes, Byron; Noy, Ilan - 2007

We estimate the impact of FDI on growth using sectoral data for FDI inflows to China and Vietnam. Previous empirical studies, using either cross-country growth regressions or firm-level micro-econometric analysis, fail to reach a consensus. Our paper is the first to use sectoral FDI inflow data...

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Count data models with unobserved heterogeneity: An empirical likelihood approach

Boes, Stefan - 2007

estimation in particular has favorable properties in this setting compared to the two-step GMM procedure, which is demonstrated … in a Monte Carlo experiment. The proposed method is applied to the estimation of a cigarette demand function. …

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Nonparametric structural estimation of labor supply in the presence of censoring

Liang, Che-Yuan - 2009

This paper extends the nonparametric method to estimate labor supply developed by Blomquist and Newey (2002) to handle cases in which there are individuals who do not work. The method is then applied to married women in Sweden from 1973 to 1999. For 1999, I find an aggregate uncompensated wage...

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Why was the participation of Indian states in the growth turnaround so patchy? Some evidence based on robustness analysis

Ghate, Chetan; Wright, Stephen - 2012

In Ghate & Wright Journal of Development Economics, vol. 99 (2012) pp 58-67, we noted that there was considerable variation in the extent to which different Indian states participated in the Great Indian Growth Turnaround. In this paper we investigate whether there was any systematic...

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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Design of Incentives in Community based Health Insurance Schemes

Ahuja, Rajeev; Jütting, Johannes - 2003

... This paper discusses solutions to important incentive problems in micro-health insurance schemes which threaten their sustainability. In particular, three issues explored are : (i) if defining household as unit of insurance always mitigates adverse selection problem; (ii) how ex ante moral...

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Access of the poor to water supply and sanitation in India: Salient concepts, issues and cases

Jha, Nitish - 2010

Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …

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The social policies of emerging economies: Growth and welfare in China and India

de Haan, Arjan - 2013

reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …

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Economic reforms: Policy and institutions some lessons from Indian reforms

Virmani, Arvind - 2004

Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...

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