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econ.GN2020★ 46 cited

The Effects of Access to Credit on Productivity Among Microenterprises: Separating Technological Changes from Changes in Technical Efficiency

Nusrat Abedin Jimi, Plamen Nikolov, Mohammad Abdul Malek +1

Improving productivity among farm microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market imperfections are pervasive and resources are scarce. Relaxing cred…

econ.GN2020★ 3 cited

The Importance of Cognitive Domains and the Returns to Schooling in South Africa: Evidence from Two Labor Surveys

Plamen Nikolov, Nusrat Jimi

Numerous studies have considered the important role of cognition in estimating the returns to schooling. How cognitive abilities affect schooling may have important policy implicat…

econ.EM2020★ 331 cited

Lockdown Strategies, Mobility Patterns and COVID-19

Nikos Askitas, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Bertrand Verheyden

We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various public policies to study their dynamic eff…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 19 cited

Covid19: unless one gets everyone to act, policies may be ineffective or even backfire

Alessio Muscillo, Paolo Pin, Tiziano Razzolini

The diffusion of COVID19 is calling governments and public health authorities to interventions that limit new infections and contain the expected number of critical cases and death…

econ.EM2020★ 27 cited

Rationalizing Rational Expectations: Characterization and Tests

Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Christophe Gaillac, Arnaud Maurel

In this paper, we build a new test of rational expectations based on the marginal distributions of realizations and subjective beliefs. This test is widely applicable, including in…