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Geography, Institutions, and the Making of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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Education Funding and Regional Convergence

de la Croix, David; Monfort, Philippe - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1999

The aim of this paper is to discuss the process of regional convergence within the framework of an overlapping … education funding systems and compare their performance in terms of growth rates and pace of convergence between two …-off between long run growth rate and short run convergence. In such choice, the initial capital stock and the extent of regional …

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Dualism and Cross-Country Growth Regressions

Temple, Jonathan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

This paper examines whether growth regressions should incorporate dualism and structural change. If there is a differential across sectors in the marginal product of labour, changes in the structure of employment can raise aggregate total factor productivity. The paper develops empirical growth...

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Ecological Barriers and Convergence: a Note on Geometry in Spatial Growth Models

FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …

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Economic Growth

CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014

Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...

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Development Policies when Accounting for the Extensive Margin of Fertility

BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015

Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Crisis

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - CESifo - 2012

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...

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The Volatility Curse: Revisiting the Paradox of Plenty

Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Poelhekke, Steven - CESifo - 2009

The volatility of unanticipated output growth in income per capita is detrimental to long-run development, controlling for initial income per capita, population growth, human capital, investment, openness and natural resource dependence. This effect is significant and robust over a wide range of...

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Growth and Enduring Epidemic Diseases

Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans - CESifo - 2006

This paper studies the formation of human capital and its transmission across generations when premature adult mortality is a salient feature of the demographic landscape, either permanently or in the form of a long-period wave that follows the outbreak of an epidemic. We establish several...

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Population, Pensions, and Endogenous Economic Growth

Heer, Burkhard; Irmen, Andreas - CESifo - 2008

We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...

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