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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints
Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …
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Unemployment, Growth and Taxation in Industrial Countries
Daveri, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
To the layperson, the upward trend in European unemployment is related to the slowdown in economic growth. We argue that the layperson’s view is correct. The increase in European unemployment and the slowdown in economic growth are related because they stem from a common cause: an excessively...
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Aggregate Fertility and Household Savings: A General Equilibrium Analysis using Micro Data
Banerjee, Abhijit; Meng, Xin; Porzio, Tommaso; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This study uses micro data and an OLG model to show that general equilibrium forces are critical for understanding the relationship between aggregate fertility and household savings. First, we document that parents perceive children as an important source of old-age support and that in partial...
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Do Oil Windfalls Improve Living Standards? Evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
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Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa
Nunn, Nathan; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes or because of its interaction with historical events. Looking at terrain ruggedness, we are able to estimate the importance of these two channels. Because rugged terrain hinders...
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Factor Saving Innovation
Boldrin, Michele; Levine, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
It has been argued that concave models exhibit less ‘endogeneity of growth’ than models with increasing returns to scale. Here we study a simple model of factor saving technological improvement in a concave framework. Capital can be used either to reproduce itself, or, at some additional...
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Productivity volatility and the misallocation of resources in developing economies
Asker, John; Collard-Wexler, Allan; De Loecker, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
total factor productivity (TFP) and static measures of capital misallocation within a country. Using data on 5 … between productivity volatility and the dispersion of the marginal revenue product of capital (static capital misallocation … replicate the observed relationship between static misallocation and volatility observed in the data. We find that sixty …
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Optimal Spatial Taxation: Are Big Cities too Small?
Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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