1.
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 23 May 2013
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
There are 2 versions of this paper
Generating Skilled Self-Employment in Developing Countries: Experimental Evidence from Uganda
Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 23 May 2013
Last Revised: 30 Apr 2014
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6,353
Employment Generation in Rural Africa: Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda
DIW Berlin Discussion Paper No. 1201
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 01 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 24 May 2013
Downloads
635
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6,353
2.
Generating Employment in Poor and Fragile States: Evidence from Labor Market and Entrepreneurship Programs
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 27 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and World Bank
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6,139
3.
Measuring the Performance of Microfinance Institutions
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 27 Jul 2006
Last Revised: 29 Jan 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Geneva and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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5,180
4.
The Evolution of the Bitcoin Economy: Extracting and Analyzing the Network of Payment Relationships
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 13 Jul 2016
Last Revised: 29 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University of Padova - Department of Statistical Sciences and University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of Sociology
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3,813
5.
Inequality's Economic and Social Roots: The Role of Social Networks and Homophily
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 22 Mar 2021
Last Revised: 13 Nov 2024
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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3,567
6.
Destruction, Disinvestment, and Death: Economic and Human Losses Following Environmental Disaster
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 19 Feb 2013
Working Paper Series
University of San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley
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3,473
7.
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Exeter Business School - Department of Economics and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital
There are 3 versions of this paper
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
Number of pages: 119
Posted: 18 Apr 2015
Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016
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3,222
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence on Adult Noncognitive Investments in Liberia
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 7648
Number of pages: 108
Posted: 22 Apr 2016
Downloads
140
Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia
NBER Working Paper No. w21204
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 26 May 2015
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2023
Downloads
51
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3,222
8.
Centrality Measures in Networks
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 19 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 16 Feb 2023
Working Paper Series
University of Angers - Research Group in Quantitative Saving (GREQAM)National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Stanford University - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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3,044
9.
Risk-Based Student Loans
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 527, 2013
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 08 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Risk-Based Student Loans
Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 70, No. 1, p. 527, 2013
Number of pages: 122
Posted: 08 Dec 2011
Last Revised: 05 May 2013
Downloads
2,998
Risk Based Student Loans -- Powerpoint Presentation
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 01 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2013
Downloads
584
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2,998
10.
Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Apr 2002
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Apr 2002
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2,939
Contracting Constraints, Credit Markets and Economic Development
Advances in Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 3, Forthcoming 2002
Posted: 26 Apr 2002
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2,939
11.
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 12-10
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 16 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 01 May 2012
Working Paper Series
Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Chicago - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Up in Smoke: The Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 12-10
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 16 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 01 May 2012
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2,909
Up in Smoke: the Influence of Household Behavior on the Long-Run Impact of Improved Cooking Stoves
NBER Working Paper No. w18033
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 04 May 2012
Last Revised: 10 Apr 2023
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63
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2,909
12.
The Role of Theory in an Age of Design and Big Data
The Future of Economic Design, edited by Jean-Franois Laslier, Her've Moulin, Remzi Sanver, and William S. Zwicker, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 11 Aug 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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2,895
13.
Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 10 Nov 2000
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey
Number of pages: 104
Posted: 10 Nov 2000
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2,827
Enterprise Restructuring in Transition: A Quantitative Survey
Number of pages: 107
Posted: 14 May 2002
Downloads
33
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2,827
14.
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 02 May 2014
Last Revised: 13 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and International Rescue Committee
There are 2 versions of this paper
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State
Number of pages: 85
Posted: 02 May 2014
Last Revised: 13 Jun 2015
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2,774
Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? A Field Experiment with High-Risk Men in a Fragile State
NBER Working Paper No. w21289
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 22 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 04 Mar 2023
Downloads
69
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2,774
15.
Punctuality: A Cultural Trait as Equilibrium
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 28 Jun 2002
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Department of Economics and Stockholm School of Economics - Department of Economics
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2,516
16.
Microfinance and Missing Markets
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 21 Jul 2007
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance
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2,343
17.
The Impact of Business Regulatory Reforms on Economic Growth
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Vol. 26 (3), pp. 285-307
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 26 May 2012
Last Revised: 14 Jun 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard University
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2,250
18.
Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 14-15
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 10 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 05 Oct 2018
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Stanford University - Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Stanford University - Department of Economics
There are 3 versions of this paper
Using Gossips to Spread Information: Theory and Evidence from Two Randomized Controlled Trials
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 14-15
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 10 Jun 2014
Last Revised: 05 Oct 2018
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2,249
Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
NBER Working Paper No. w20422
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 03 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 21 Apr 2023
Downloads
99
Gossip: Identifying Central Individuals in a Social Network
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10120
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 30 Sep 2014
Downloads
2
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2,249
19.
Regulation and Growth
Number of pages: 9
Posted: 29 Mar 2006
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), World Bank - International Finance Corporation (IFC) and World Bank Group - Private Sector Advisory Services Department
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2,167
20.
Institutions and Development: A View from Below
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 928
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 06 Dec 2005
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Economic Growth Center and Northwestern University
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2,146
21.
Predicting Local Violence
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 29 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 22 Jun 2017
Working Paper Series
Brown University, University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy and University College of London
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2,115
22.
Growth Theory Through the Lens of Development Economics
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 05 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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2,068
23.
‘Mobile’izing Agricultural Advice: Technology Adoption, Diffusion, and Sustainability
Harvard Business School Finance Working Paper No. 13-047
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 23 Nov 2012
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Working Paper Series
Harvard Business School and University of Notre Dame - Department of Economics
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1,929
24.
Banking the Unbanked: What do 280 Million New Bank Accounts Reveal about Financial Access?
Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-12, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2906523, HKUST Finance Symposium 2017, Indian School of Business WP 2906523
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 30 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2023
Working Paper Series
National University of Singapore, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, State Bank of India, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Stanford University
Downloads
1,836
25.
The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 07 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 07 Apr 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Connecticut - Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Office of Strategic Planning and Development Effectiveness
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 07 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 07 Apr 2019
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1,833
The Long Term Impacts of Grants on Poverty: 9-Year Evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program
NBER Working Paper No. w24999
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 17 Sep 2018
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
Downloads
66
Downloads
1,833
26.
Intellectual Capital Evaluation: Relationship between Knowledge Management Implementation and Company’s Performance
12th European Conference on Knowledge Management, September 2011
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 07 Feb 2020
Accepted Paper Series
National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and National Research University Higher School of Economics
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1,824
27.
Social Capital and Social Quilts: Network Patterns of Favor Exchange
American Economic Review, 2012, 102(5): 1857-97.
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 11 Aug 2010
Last Revised: 03 Jan 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics, Universidad de los Andes and University of Washington - Economics
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1,738
28.
Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 25 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 31 Jul 2010
Working Paper Series
NYU Stern Department of Economics and Stanford University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Compulsory Licensing: Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 25 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 31 Jul 2010
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1,720
Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act
NBER Working Paper No. w15598
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 22 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 13 Feb 2023
Downloads
84
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1,720
29.
Female Labor Force Participation in Asia: Indonesia Country Study
Asian Development Bank Economics Working Paper Series No. 474
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 25 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Harvard University - Center for Business and Government
Downloads
1,692
30.
The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 23 May 2014
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, Duke Global Health Institute, University of Exeter Business School - Department of Economics, University of Brasília and International Rescue Committee
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 23 May 2014
Last Revised: 18 Jun 2015
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1,687
The Returns to Microenterprise Support Among the Ultra-Poor: A Field Experiment in Post-War Uganda
NBER Working Paper No. w21310
Number of pages: 74
Posted: 29 Jun 2015
Last Revised: 25 Mar 2023
Downloads
47
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1,687
31.
Teaching Entrepreneurship: Impact of Business Training on Microfinance Clients and Institutions
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 941, Center for Global Development Working Paper No. 108
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 25 Jul 2006
Working Paper Series
Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and Grupo de Analisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
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1,684
32.
What's Advertising Content Worth? Evidence from a Consumer Credit Marketing Field Experiment
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 968, Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 58
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 24 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Yale UniversityNorthwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, University of Chicago, Princeton University and Dartmouth College
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1,680
33.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy
Jena Economic Research Paper No. 2008 - 006
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 01 Apr 2008
Working Paper Series
Utrecht University - School of Economics
Downloads
1,661
34.
Role of Microfinance Institutions in Social Development
Number of pages: 6
Posted: 14 May 2016
Last Revised: 30 Oct 2019
Working Paper Series
Apeejay School of Management
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1,592
35.
Firm Dynamics and Productivity Growth: A Review of Micro Evidence from OECD Countries
OECD Economics Department Working Papers No. 297
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 28 Jul 2001
Working Paper Series
Hitotsubashi University - Faculty of Economics
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1,536
36.
The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 17 Jan 2020
Last Revised: 13 Nov 2024
Working Paper Series
Carnegie Mellon University, Microsoft Research and Stanford University - Department of Economics
Downloads
1,402
37.
Family Planning as an Investment in Development: Evaluation of a Program's Consequences in Matlab, Bangladesh
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 951, IZA Discussion Paper No. 2639, iHEA 2007 6th World Congress: Explorations in Health Economics Paper
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago and Yale University - Economic Growth Center
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1,391
38.
Planning to Fail: An Analysis on Economic Planning Failure in Developing Countries
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 17 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
Liverpool John Moores University
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1,391
39.
Rural Financial Markets in Developing Countries
Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 914
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 18 Jul 2005
Working Paper Series
City University of New York, CUNY Hunter College - Department of Economics and Northwestern University
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1,374
40.
Just a Few Seeds More: Value of Network Information for Diffusion
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 01 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2020
Working Paper Series
Stanford University, Cornell University, Department of Economics and Stanford University - Department of Management Science & Engineering
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1,352
41.
Information Technology and Rural Development in India
UC Santa Cruz Economics Working Paper No. 563
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 02 Apr 2004
Working Paper Series
University of California, Santa Cruz
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1,319
42.
What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-29
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 12 Dec 2007
Last Revised: 09 Sep 2008
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-29
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 12 Dec 2007
Last Revised: 09 Sep 2008
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1,291
What is Middle Class About the Middle Classes Around the World?
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6613
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 09 Jun 2008
Downloads
7
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1,291
43.
Epidemics and Conflict: Evidence from the Ebola Outbreak in Western Africa
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 23 Mar 2020
Last Revised: 23 Oct 2022
Working Paper Series
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and University of Lausanne
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1,290
44.
The Role of Policy and Institutions for Productivity and Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Micro and Industry Data
OECD Economics Department Working Paper No. 329
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 06 May 2002
Working Paper Series
OECD, Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) - Economics Department (ECO), International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Research Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - Fiscal Affairs Department
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1,282
45.
Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 20 May 2008
Working Paper Series
Princeton University and Ranchi University
Downloads
1,269
46.
IRR Performs Better than NPV: A Critical Analysis of Cases of Multiple IRR and Mutually Exclusive and Independent Investments
Revised and updated version as of 23 Aug, 2017
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 10 Feb 2017
Last Revised: 14 Sep 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Independent
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1,263
47.
The Externalities of Corruption: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Firms in China
Review of Finance, forthcoming , Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 17-6, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 536/2017, Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 17-6
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Stockholm School of Economics, Renmin University of China - School of Business, Xiamen University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) - Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF)
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Externalities of Corruption: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Firms in China
Review of Finance, forthcoming , Kelley School of Business Research Paper No. 17-6, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 536/2017, Swedish House of Finance Research Paper No. 17-6
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 13 Jan 2017
Last Revised: 03 Nov 2020
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1,231
The Externalities of Corruption: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Activity in China
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12345
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 09 Oct 2017
Downloads
3
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1,231
48.
New General Theory of Economic Development: Innovative Growth and Distribution
Review of Economic Development, Vol. 24, No. 2 (April 2020).
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 13 May 2019
Last Revised: 07 Oct 2020
Accepted Paper Series
The Law and Development Institute
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1,211
49.
Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6395
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 10 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Goettingen (Göttingen) - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and IZA
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1,192
50.
The Problem of ‘Freezing’ an Economy in a Pandemic
Cryoeconomics: How to Unfreeze an Economy (2020)
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 20 Apr 2020
Working Paper Series
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University), RMIT University, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University) and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolog (RMIT University)
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1,170
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