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Author : Hüseyin Çağri Sağlam
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Total Pages : 131 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Optimal Growth and Technology Adoption written by Hüseyin Çağri Sağlam and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Inchul Kim
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Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Technology Adoption and Economic Growth written by Inchul Kim and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neil Scott Gandal
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Essays on the Development, Diffusion, and Adoption of Technology written by Neil Scott Gandal and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ting-Wei Lai
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Total Pages : 93 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Technology Adoption, Demographics, and Development written by Ting-Wei Lai and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is to connect empirical findings with grounded theoretical analysis on two economic issues. One of the studies investigates industrial productivity by fitting in a theoretical model with quantitative methods. In addition, I explore how a demographic policy in China brings forth a profound impact in all aspects of the fast-growing economy. The first chapter, "Casual Labor, Uncertainty, and Technology Adoption in Agriculture," examines why both the technology adoption rate and labor productivity in agriculture are low in the context of developing countries. A two-stage model is built to explain how the availability of casual (non-permanent) labor ex-post, in the presence of uncertainty may affect agents' ex-ante technology choices. A higher degree of uncertainty induces the agents to choose traditional production technology that relies heavily on the labor input instead of using any modern intermediate inputs. By calibrating the model to fit the micro data in Tanzania, I show that this proposed framework can be used to account for two targets of interest: low aggregate labor productivity and the low technology adoption rate. Counterfactual exercises suggest that the severity of uncertainty before the harvest stage and the abundance of casual labor are the potential drivers for the two targets to be explained. The second chapter, "Growth in a Patrilocal Economy: Female Schooling, Household Savings, and China's One-Child Policy," is co-authored Wei-Cheng Chen. We develop a model of parental education decision to analyze how a population control policy affects saving and schooling in a patrilocal society, where sons are responsible to support aged parents more than daughters. Parent's investment in education depends on the degree of parental altruism and the need for old-age security. A tightened population control policy makes parental altruism more important relative to the security motive and shortens gender gap in education. We also take another crucial intergenerational incentive for daughter's education into account, since lower fertility promotes female labor market participation and increases the value of female education. Our model explains why the Chinese economy under the "One-Child Policy'' exhibits a rapid growth of relative female schooling. Moreover, this chapter also articulates the relationship between household savings and demographic changes based on a general equilibrium analysis, which has been discussed extensively in recent years to explain the China's saving puzzle.
Author : Bruce Peter McWilliams
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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Essays on Learning and Technology Adoption written by Bruce Peter McWilliams and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy Guinnane
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804766932
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book History Matters written by Timothy Guinnane and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining theoretical work with careful historical description and analysis of new data sources, History Matters makes a strong case for a more historical approach to economics, both by argument and by example. Seventeen original essays, written by distinguished economists and economic historians, use economic theory and historical cases to explore how and why "history matters." The chapters, which range in subject matter from the economic theory of irreversible investment to the nineteenth-century decline in U.S. rural fertility to the English poor law reform, are unified by three themes. The first explores the significance, causes, and consequences of path dependence in the evolution of technology and institutions. The second relates to the ways in which economic and political behavior are profoundly shaped and constrained by the cultural and political context inherited from history at a particular point in time. The final theme demonstrates the importance of integrating economic theory into historical research in the gathering and interpretation of data.
Author : Pratish Patel
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Technology Adoption and Corporate Finance written by Pratish Patel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters that concern technology adoption and corporate finance. The first chapter analyzes the optimal investment strategy of two firms confronted with the option to adopt a new technology. The second chapter analyzes the link between debt maturity and term spread. The third chapter analyzes the role of debt financing on skyscraper heights.
Author : Moon Young Parks
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Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Essays on Technology Adoption and Provision Efficiency in Development Projects written by Moon Young Parks and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many development projects, technologies with potential to improve welfare are under adopted and under-utilized once adopted. One possible cause for this inefficiency is ignoring fit risk (the risk the technology may not meet the needs of the potential adopter). This dissertation attempts to introduce fit risk in the development context and develops a framework to analyze resource misallocation when fit risk is not addressed by project donors and managers. We examine strategies to reduce fit risk, like pre-purchase demonstration to reduce waste and enhance intake. The dissertation analyzes when it is worth to incur costly demonstration of the technology that eliminates fit-risk, and shows that the economic net benefit of costly demonstration is non-monotone in the probability of technology fit. Demonstration is not worthy when the probability of non-suitability of the technology is either too high or too low. Even if well-implemented demonstration eliminates fit-risk and improves project value, it does not necessarily increase take-up of the technology. Ignoring fit-risk or misunderstanding demand in the presence of fit-risk can lead to miscalculating project values in development projects and to making wrong support decisions. The predictions of the model are tested using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in the case of vision aid technology (eyeglasses) in rural Cambodia. The analysis recognizes heterogeneity among individuals with respect to the benefit from glasses where eyesight is the proxy variable for different levels of likelihood of fit. Our empirical study shows that a one-week free trial (a type of demonstration) increased the take-up rate for the middle-fit group (mild vision impairment), while it decreased for the high-fit group (substantial vision impairment). While overall intake of the eyeglasses did not change much, people who purchased eyeglasses after the one-week free trial tended to use their eyeglasses more frequently than people who purchased the eyeglasses after only a single, ten-minute fitting process. This implies that such marketing efforts can lead to better allocation of technology and improve technology provision efficiency even if they do not necessarily increase take-up.
Author : Gracious M. Diiro
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Total Pages : 135 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Technology Adoption and Child Development Using Semiparametric Econometrics written by Gracious M. Diiro and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This dissertation comprises three chapters focusing on application of semiparametric and structural econometrics to understanding child development, and technology adoption decisions in India and Uganda.
Author : Moohoun Song
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Four Essays on Technology Adoption and Returns to Skill in the U.S. written by Moohoun Song and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We investigate two plausible factors that may have affected changes in wage inequality: returns to higher education and returns to new technologies. The first two chapters examine the role of mathematics and verbal ability in estimating returns to advanced degrees. When average abilities within the major are treated as missing variables, we found that OLS estimates of returns to graduate education are underestimated. When average ability in the major is treated as part of an endogenous decision regarding whether to attend post-graduate degree programs, we find that students in majors with higher average mathematics skills are less likely to progress beyond the bachelor's degree while the opposite happens with average verbal skills. The next two chapters examine the decision of whether to adopt Internet and computer technologies and the returns to adoption. We first identify demand-side and supply-side factors that affect technology adoption in urban and rural areas. Local access to high speed Internet plays an important role in the technology adoption decision. It increases the probability of using computers and the Internet for work from home and also increases the likelihood of using the Internet at work. That factor alone explains about half of the gap in Internet adoption at home or at work between urban and rural workers. Together, the demand and supply-side factors identified in the analysis completely explain the differences in technology adoption between urban and rural areas. Using the previous model to identify the endogenous probability of adopting various information technologies, we estimate returns to adoption in the context of an earnings function. When treated as exogenous, adoption has an implausibly large positive and significant effect on earnings. When the endogeneity of the choice to adopt is controlled, the estimated returns to adoption shrink in both sign and significance. Thus, while adoption is strongly tied to the availability of high-speed Internet in the home county, the higher income of adopters is due to factors that raise both the probability of adoption and earnings and not to the adoption per se.
Author : Maria Eugenia Muniagurria
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Total Pages : 218 pages
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Download or read book Essays on the Theory of Technology Creation and Transfer written by Maria Eugenia Muniagurria and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fairness, Technology Adoption, Water Sanitation and Pandemic Control written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin J. Choe
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Innovation and Technology Adoption written by Justin J. Choe and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The overarching theme of my research is on issues related to innovation, with a focus on how different firms react to technological changes. These include new markets that are developed through international trade agreements, new production technology as a product of research and development (R & D), and even new regulations and standards that change the production process of a firm. We divide these changes into several categories, by whether they are mandatory or voluntary, whether they are 'horizontal' or 'vertical', or whether they are 'direct' or 'secondary' effects of a social change. First, we look at the responses of countries when mandatory changes are exogenously imposed. In order to do this, we look at the case of how international labor standards impact bilateral trade. Through this estimation, we examine how countries react not only in terms of adopting the standards, but also how they react when their trading partners adopt more standards. The impact of such technological change is heterogeneous across conventions and industries. We find that the international standards significantly explain the extensive margin of trade, but less of the intensive margin of trade. Second, we look at the endogenous responses of firms to market forces and firm level constraints. We model a firm which has an option to invest and improve their own productivity. A theoretical examination shows that the general equilibrium effect of innovation is positive by increasing consumer welfare through lower prices and added variety of goods. The model also shows policy implications related to market entry costs such as RD subsidies. Last, we look at technological changes as an externality. The case we examine is when technology is introduced due to the behavior of other firms. We look at the case of Chile, and examine how foreign direct investment (FDI) impact the exit behavior of firms. We see that survivability of domestic firms is effected by the behavior of multinationals, and that the level of technology of the industry is a significant factor in determining exit rates.
Author : Pallavi Shukla
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Download or read book Three Essays in Experimental and Behavioral Economics of Technology Adoption in India written by Pallavi Shukla and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moohoun Song
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Total Pages : 149 pages
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Download or read book Four Essays on Technology Adoption and Returns to Skill in the United States written by Moohoun Song and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Jozwik
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Essays in Limitations to Technology Adoption written by Jan Jozwik and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sunung Moon
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Essays on induced innovation and technology adoption written by Sunung Moon and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
