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Protecting unsophisticated applicants in school choice through information disclosureUnsophisticated applicants can be at a disadvantage under manipulable and hence strategically demanding school choice mechanisms...
Education Experimental design Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Caste differences in behaviour and personality: Evidence from IndiaThe persistent gap in economic outcomes between the upper and lower caste groups in India is typically explained through differences in endowments and the presence of discrimination...
Caste Field experiments Organizational behaviorBlog
Understanding FDI spillover mechanisms
Foreign direct investment (FDI) has been praised as an important development tool, especially for countries at low levels of industrial development...
Economic development International trade Foreign investmentsPolicy Brief
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Exporting and Foreign Direct Investment Spillovers: Cambodia’s ExperienceOne feature of exporting firms in Cambodia is that they are not of domestic origin but are foreign firms that export from the moment they are established in Cambodia...
Economic development International trade Foreign investmentsWorking Paper
Disentangling the Pattern of Geographic Concentration in Tunisian Manufacturing IndustriesIn this paper, we examine the pattern of spatial concentration of manufacturing industries observed in Tunisia and explore the factors driving firms’ choices of location at the provincial level...
Competition Industrial management Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
Productivity-Enhancing Manufacturing Clusters: Evidence from VietnamIn this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data source from Vietnam for 2002 to 2007, a period of significant transition...
Economic development Industrial management Manufacturing industriesWorking Paper
Exporting and Productivity: The Role of Ownership and Innovation in the Case of VietnamIn this paper, we investigate the relationship between exporting and productivity in the case of Vietnam using an extensive firm level panel dataset for the period 2005-11...
Business enterprises Commerce Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Learning by Exporting: The Case of Mozambican ManufacturingIn this paper, we aim to analyse the learning by exporting hypothesis in the Mozambican context...
Business enterprises Economic development MicroeconomicsWorking Paper
Foreign Aid and Sustainable Fisheries Management in Sub-Saharan AfricaThe fisheries sector in sub-Saharan Africa has benefited from high and increasing amounts of foreign aid for over four decades...
Biodiversity conservation Econometric models Economic assistance and foreign aidResearch Brief
The Development Process – The Problem of Imitating SuccessDevelopment practice continues to operate on the assumptions of an outdated theory of modernization...
Economic development Economic policy Organizational behaviorJournal Article
Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in ColombiaPart of Journal Special Issue Entrepreneurship and Conflict
Organizational behavior Panel analysis WagesJournal Article
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for ImplementationIn many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery...
Economic development Economic policy Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Looking Like a State: Techniques of Persistent Failure in State Capability for ImplementationIn many nations today the state has little capability to carry out even basic functions like security, policing, regulation or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term task...
Economic development Economic policy Organizational behaviorWorking Paper
Firm Exit and Armed Conflict in ColombiaThis paper uses two unique panel data sets to study the causal effect that armed conflict has over entrepreneurial activity in Colombia...
Organizational behavior Panel analysis Wages