We use plant level census data to identify spillovers from FDI in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector.
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Misperceiving and misreporting input quality: Implications for input use and productivity
Farmers in developing countries routinely misperceive or misreport input quality for various reasons, which introduces substantial measurement error in farm survey data.
“Moving umbrella”: Bureaucratic transfers and the comovement of interregional investments in China
This paper studies the pattern of interregional investment after bureaucratic transfers across Chinese cities.
We examine an indirect but potentially deadly consequence of the “missing girls” phenomenon. A shortage of brides causes many parents with sons of marriageable age to work harder and seek higher-paying but dangerous jobs.
Do elected leaders in a limited democracy have real power?
Offering rainfall insurance to informal insurance groups
Positional spending and status seeking in rural China
International spillovers, productivity growth and openness in Thailand: an intertemporal general equilibrium analysis
"Thailand has experienced economic growth well above world averages from 1960 to the recent crisis.
Recent attempts to quantify the sources of growth in Chinese agriculture have attributed an exceptionally large share of this growth to the contemporary institutional and market reforms within China.