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Temperature, Labor Reallocation, and Industrial Production: Evidence from India
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2021 To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity shocks? I estimate that temperature-driven reductions in the demand for agricultural labor in India are associated with increases in ...
J. Colmer
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Firms, Informality, and Development: Theory and Evidence from Brazil
The American Economic Review, 2018 This paper develops and estimates an equilibrium model where heterogeneous firms can exploit two margins of informality: (i) not register their business, the extensive margin; and (ii) hire workers “off the books,” the intensive margin.
Gabriel Ulyssea
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Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China
The American Economic Review, 2018 We study a Chinese policy that awards substantial tax cuts to firms with R&D investment over a threshold or “notch.” Quasi-experimental variation and administrative tax data show a significant increase in reported R&D that is partly driven by firms ...
Zhao Chen +3 more
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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Social Science Research Network, 2021 In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many
E. Verhoogen
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The American Economic Review, 2019 To investigate the enforcement value of third-party information on potentially collusive taxpayers, I study an anti-tax evasion program that rewards consumers for ensuring that firms report sales and establishes a verification system to aid whistle ...
Joana Naritomi
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Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development
Social Science Research NetworkThis paper shows that self-employment shapes labor market power in low-income countries, with implications for industrial development. Using Peruvian data, we find that wage-setting power increases with employer concentration but less so where self ...
Francesco Amodio +2 more
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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-Income Country
The American Economic Review, 2018 We study the effects of a positive export shock on labor allocation between the informal, microenterprise sector and the formal firm sector in a low-income country. The United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement led to large reductions in US tariffs
B. McCaig, Nina Pavcnik
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The Human Side of Structural Transformation
Social Science Research Network, 2021 We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment was driven by new cohorts entering the labor market. A new dataset of policy reforms supports an interpretation of these cohort effects as human capital.
Tommaso Porzio +2 more
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The Sources of Capital Misallocation
The American Economic Review, 2019 We develop a methodology to disentangle sources of capital “mis-allocation,” i.e., dispersion in value-added/capital. It measures the contributions of technological/informational frictions and a rich class of firm-specific factors.
J. David, Venky Venkateswaran
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Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico’s Coastline
The American Economic Review, 2019 Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new empirical strategy to study the long-term economic consequences of ...
Benjamin Faber, C. Gaubert
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