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Mentors or Teachers? Microenterprise Training in Kenya
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2018We use a randomized controlled trial to demonstrate that inexperienced female microenterprise owners in a Kenyan slum benefit from mentorship by an experienced entrepreneur in the same community. Mentorship increases profits by 20 percent on average with
W. Brooks +2 more
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Trade Disruptions and Reshoring
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsFirms are increasingly concerned about the resilience of their sales and sourcing decisions. Using administrative data, we show that a temporary disruption in trade due to state border closures in India led to a persistent trade collapse within the ...
A. Chakrabarti +2 more
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The Inner Workings of a Hub-and-Spoke Cartel in the Automotive Fuel Industry
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsWe study the inner workings of a hub-and-spoke cartel in the Brazilian automotive fuel industry. Based on court documents and detailed price and sales data, we discuss how gas station owners (spokes) operating inside the federal capital received help ...
Daniel Chaves, Marco Duarte
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Corporate Taxation and Evasion Responses: Evidence from a Minimum Tax in Honduras
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe study corporate responses to a minimum income tax, using the universe of corporate tax filings in Honduras. The policy design allows us to separately estimate cost misreporting under profit taxation and the elasticity of reported revenue.
Felipe Lobel +2 more
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Monitoring in Small Firms: Experimental Evidence from Kenyan Public Transit
The American Economic ReviewSmall firms struggle to grow beyond a few employees. We introduce monitoring devices into commuter minibuses in Kenya and randomize which minibus owners have access to the data using a novel mobile app.
Erin M. Kelley +2 more
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The Review of Radical Political Economics
The article studies the fall in the output/capital (OC) ratio in Mexican manufacturing, contrasting the hypotheses of high labor costs versus convergence toward the United States as drivers of Marx-biased technical change.
Carlos A. Ibarra
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The article studies the fall in the output/capital (OC) ratio in Mexican manufacturing, contrasting the hypotheses of high labor costs versus convergence toward the United States as drivers of Marx-biased technical change.
Carlos A. Ibarra
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The Welfare Effects of Vertical Integration in China’s Movie Industry
American Economic Journal: MicroeconomicsThis paper investigates the welfare effects of vertical integration in China’s movie industry. We leverage data covering all theaters and 423 popular movies in China during 2014–2018.
Luming Chen, Li Yi, Chuan Yu
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JEEA‐FBBVA LECTURE 2013: THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT
, 2014N. Bloom +4 more
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