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Gennaioli, Nicola; Laporta, Rafael; López-de-Silanes, … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

We investigate the determinants of regional development using a newly constructed database of 1569 sub-national regions from 110 countries covering 74 percent of the world’s surface and 96 percent of its GDP. We combine the cross-regional analysis of geographic, institutional, cultural, and...

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The Contribution of Schooling in Development Accounting: Results from a Nonparametric Upper Bound

Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to … generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach is that the upper bound is valid for any number of schooling levels …

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Business Literacy and Development: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela; Cunha, Jesse M.; Giorgi, Giacomo De - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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Social Capital, Government Expenditures, and Growth

Ponzetto, Giacomo; Troiano, Ugo - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

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Assessing Technology-based Spin-offs from University Support Units

Epure, Mircea; Prior, Diego; Serarols, Christian - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

This paper takes a regional studies approach to assess the efficiency of technology-based spin-offs that benefited from financial and infrastructure aid. It does so by following the objectives of institutions for regional support and provides evidence on spin-offs created within the special case...

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Schooling Supply and the Structure of Production: Evidence from US States 1950-1990

Ciccone, Antonio; Peri, Giovanni - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2011

We find that over the period 1950-1990, US states absorbed increases in the supply of schooling due to tighter … compulsory schooling and child labor laws mostly through within-industry increases in the schooling intensity of production …. Shifts in the industry composition towards more schooling-intensive industries played a less important role. To try and …

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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-2010*

Fuente, Angel de la; Domènech, Rafael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2012

This paper describes the construction of series of educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries covering the period 1960-2010. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2002).

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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-2010

Fuente, Angel de la; Doménech, Rafael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014

This paper describes the construction of series of educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 22 OECD countries covering the period 1960-2010. These series are a revised and extended version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2002).

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Saving Lives: Evidence from a Conditional Food Supplementation Program

Meller, Marian; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

-scale, government-run, food fortification program on child mortality in Ecuador. The Programa de Alimentación y Nutrición Nacional (PANN …

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Cross-Country Data on the Quantity of Schooling: a Selective Survey and Some Quality Measures

Fuente, Angel de la; Doménech, Rafael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013

schooling. We discuss the construction of the different series, compare their profiles and construct indicators of their …

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