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Agricultural productivity and economic development : the contribution of clover to structural transformation in Denmark
Dall Schmidt, Torben; Jensen, Peter Sandholt; Naz, Amber - In: Journal of economic growth 23 (2018) 4, pp. 387-426
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025308
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Chapter 24. Urbanization and Growth
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2005
This chapter on urbanization and growth focuses on modeling and empirical evidence that pertain to a number of inter … level of individual cities. In the early stages of growth, economic development is characterized by urbanization – a spatial … aspects of the transformation? In any static, growth, or development–urbanization context, how do governance, institutions …
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
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Structural change in the U.S. economy: 1850–1900
Dempster, Gregory M.; Isaacs, Justin P. - In: Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 31 (2014) C, pp. 112-123
Structural change models are potentially ideal for abstracting from a “watershed” event like the U.S. Civil War, in that they seek to explain the transformation of economies from agricultural to industrial on the basis of labor movement and incentives rather than on technical changes. We...
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Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800
Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas; Mancall, Peter C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
For the past generation scholars have emphasized that the Lower South was one of the most economically successful regions of British mainland North America, and perhaps the most successful. Planters, the primary economic actors, made extensive use of slave labor and created a successful...
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Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa
Brückner, Markus - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 26-36
urbanization rate. For a panel of 41 African countries during the period 1960–2007, the paper’s three main findings are that: (i …) decreases in the share of agricultural value added lead to a significant increase in the urbanization rate; (ii) conditional on … changes in the share of agricultural value added GDP per capita growth does not significantly affect the urbanization rate …
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CHINA'S INTEGRATION INTO THE WORLD ECONOMY
Whalley, John (contributor) - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
This book discusses China's integration into the world economy, drawing on papers previously written by the editor. It focuses on strong trade growth, FDI inflows, innovation policy (including transfer of technology and intellectual property), the role of saving, and the accumulation of human...
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Does the Environment Still Matter? Daily Temperature and Income in the United States
Deryugina, Tatyana; Hsiang, Solomon M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
It is widely hypothesized that incomes in wealthy countries are insulated from environmental conditions because individuals have the resources needed to adapt to their environment. We test this idea in the wealthiest economy in human history. Using within-county variation in weather, we estimate...
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The Amsterdam rent index: The housing market and the economy, 1550–1850
Eichholtz, Piet; Straetmans, Stefan; Theebe, Marcel - In: Journal of Housing Economics 21 (2012) 4, pp. 269-282
The paper investigates the long run historic development of the Amsterdam rental housing market (1550–1850). Using rent data on a large cross section of residential properties in Amsterdam we are able to develop an annual constant-quality rent index for the entire time period. Whereas nominal...
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Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We employ the conjectural approach to estimate the growth of GDP per capita for the colonies and states of the mid-Atlantic region (Del., NJ, NY and Penn). In contrast to previous studies of the region's growth that relied heavily on the performance of the export sector, the conjectural method...
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