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Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises

Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018

We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing …

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Investment and subjective uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by …

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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017

What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...

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What does the public know about economic policy, and how does it know it?

Blinder, Alan S. (contributor); Krueger, Alan B. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

-designed survey, we find that most respondents express a strong desire to be well informed on economic policy issues, and that …

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Some evidence on the importance of sticky wages

Barattieri, Alessandro; Basu, Susanto; Gottschalk, Peter - 2010

evidence on the frequency of nominal wage adjustment using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) for …

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Attrition and health in ageing studies : evidence from ELSA and HRS

Banks, James; Muriel, Alastair; Smith, James P. - 2010

correlated with these outcomes is a critical concern. We explored some possible reasons for these differences. Survey maturity …

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Is earnings nonresponse ignorable?

Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2010

Earnings nonresponse in the Current Population Survey is roughly 30% in the monthly surveys and 20% in the annual March … survey. Even if nonresponse is random, severe bias attaches to wage equation coefficient estimates on attributes not matched …

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Nonresponse and focal point answers to subjective probability questions

Kleinjans, Kristin J.; Soest, Arthur van - 2010

We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point "50 percent" answers. Our results indicate that for three of the...

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