[PDF] Top 20 Three Essays on Firm Dynamics and Development

... make three specific contributions in this paper: First, this study links alloca- tive efficiency to the stage of development and suggests that resource allocation is naturally more inefficient in emerging ... See full document

... THREE ESSAYS ON LAW AND DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO José Roberto Balmori de la Miyar, ...economic development in both directions, taking Mexico as a case ... See full document

... The task of predicting true match status is difficult because the size distribution of firms is very skewed. Consider the striking empirical fact that 0.3 percent of all firms employ 53 percent of all workers in the ... See full document

... In Panel A, the estimated coefficients capturing the correlation between returns to lagged investment estimated using OLS and the reallocation probability are significa[r] ... See full document

... to three years after the completion of formal schooling, enabling us to trace out the medium term impact of training on employment and wage ...under firm based ... See full document

... school by 10 percentage points. One of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) states that all girls and boys will complete their secondary education by 2030 (United Nations, 2015). Yet, bullying ... See full document

... We exploit random assignment of household exposure to the FCC program to: 1) estimate the causal impact of such exposure on household HIV testing rates, and 2) reveal whether any such improvements operate via ... See full document

... and development of forests could cause social problems, leading to exhaustion of resources and environmental ...economic development is more frequent with more serious damages caused by ... See full document

... the three studies present evidence from Benin, a country that has been studied in comparatively lesser detail than many of its African neighbours, but provides an interesting case study in ...rapid ... See full document

... The impact of Thailand’s universal coverage scheme on labor market was investigated by Manachotpong and Wagstaff (2012b). The study uses the Labor Force Survey quarterly from 1997-2000 and monthly from 2001-2005 and ... See full document

... the firm may not find it optimal to exhaust its borrowing opportunities because large debt increases the likelihood of firm ...the firm has incentives to reduce its debt to this low level whenever ... See full document

... the firm may not find it optimal to exhaust its borrowing opportunities because large debt increases the likelihood of firm ...the firm has incentives to reduce its debt to this low level whenever ... See full document

... I would like firstly to thank the Department of Economic Analysis and Business Administration at the University of A Coruña for giving me the opportunity to complete my graduate studies. I am grateful in a very special ... See full document

... Although empirical evidence shows the direction of causality between disease and economic development to run predominantly from disease to economic development, malnutrition is an import[r] ... See full document

... comprises three empirical studies on development and labor ...two essays are in the context of National Employment Guarantee Schemes (thereafter, NREGA) in ... See full document

... social skills during adolescence through indoctrination education as observed in Indonesia’s Soeharto era was not effective to cast individual social skills. Each chapter’s result contributes to the literature in each ... See full document

... the development of economic and political institutions conducive for sustaining an efficient form of urbanization and a reasonable quality of ...the development of the country’s financial system, ... See full document

... As noted in the data section, one potentially important limitation of the Mexican store price microdata is that store identifiers cannot be recovered from the unique item identifiers. This gives rise to the concern that ... See full document

... low-cost firm will dominate extraction first, with the high-cost firm increasing its extraction later when it faces less competition in the product market from the low-cost ... See full document

... political activists. The activists aim to shut down economic activity by preventing movement of people and goods, blocking roads and sometime destroying vehicles that venture out. The popular view is that the hartals and ... See full document