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The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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Peer Effects, Teacher Incentives, and the Impact of Tracking: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Kenya

Duflo, Esther; Dupas, Pascaline; Kremer, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

To the extent that students benefit from high-achieving peers, tracking will help strong students and hurt weak ones. However, all students may benefit if tracking allows teachers to present material at a more appropriate level. Lower-achieving pupils are particularly likely to benefit from...

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Pitfalls of Participatory Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Education in India

Banerjee, Abhijit; Banerji, Rukmini; Duflo, Esther; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Participation of beneficiaries in the monitoring of public services is increasingly seen as a key to improving their efficiency. In India, the current government flagship program on universal primary education organizes both locally elected leaders and parents of children enrolled in public...

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South-North Refugee Migration: Lessons for Development Cooperation

Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

As exemplified in the 1995 Mediterranean Declaration of the European Union, migration has become a major concern for European development policies. By enhancing socio-economic conditions through development cooperation, a reduction of South-North migration flows is envisaged. This new approach...

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The Experimental Approach to Development Economics

Banerjee, Abhijit; Duflo, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Randomized experiments have become a popular tool in development economics research, and have been the subject of a number of criticisms. This paper reviews the recent literature, and discusses the strengths and limitations of this approach in theory and in practice. We argue that the main...

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An empirical analysis of cellular demand in South Africa

Gasmi, Farid; Ivaldi, Marc; Recuero Virto, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand-and-supply structural model based on a multinomial specification fitted to a cross-sectional data set on Vodacom customers collected in 2005. We find that consumers are very...

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The Law of Primogeniture and the Transition from Landed Aristocracy to Industrial Democracy

Bertocchi, Graziella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

phase, aristocratic political systems prevail, while democracies tend to emerge with industrialization. At the same time the …

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Premature Deindustrialization

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

-industrial economies. The hump-shaped relationship between industrialization (measured by employment or output shares) and incomes has … shifted downwards and moved closer to the origin. This means countries are running out of industrialization opportunities …

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Was Stalin Necessary for Russia’s Economic Development?

Cheremukhin, Anton; Golosov, Mikhail; Guriev, Sergei; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies structural transformation of Soviet Russia in 1928-1940 from an agrarian to an industrial economy through the lens of a two-sector neoclassical growth model. We construct a large dataset that covers Soviet Russia during 1928-1940 and Tsarist Russia during 1885-1913. We use a...

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Machines as Engines of Growth

Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper builds a model of growth through industrialization, as machines replace workers in a growing number of tasks … unboundedly. The mechanism that drives growth is the feedback between industrialization and wages. High wages are incentives to … use machines and industrialize, while industrialization raises wages. The model shows that industrialization and growth …

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