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Do Giant Oilfield Discoveries Fuel Internal Armed Conflicts?

Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...

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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability

Caselli, Francesco; Tesei, Andrea - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences...

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Giant oilfields and civil conflict

Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

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The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization

Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due to economic or political reasons. I examine this...

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Fracking Growth

Fetzer, Thiemo - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This paper estimates the effect of the shale oil and gas boom in the United States on local economic outcomes. The main source of exogenous variation to be explored is the location of previously unexplored shale deposits. These have become technologically recoverable through the use of hydraulic...

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The Relative Economic Importance of Academic, Psychological and Behavioural Attributes Developed on Chilhood

Feinstein, L - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2000

returns to education are not significantly reduced by this omission bias but there is evidence of substantial returns to the … children from low SES groups. The implications of these results for education are developed. Parental attitudes are much more …

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The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars

Caselli, Francesco; Morelli, Massimo; Rohner, Dominic - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main predictions of the theory are that conflict tends to be more likely when at least one country has natural resources; when the...

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Improving education in two extremely poor regions: triumph and tragedy

Boone, Peter - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

running primary school education projects in the rural villages of Andhra Pradesh and Guinea-Bissau. Their initial survey of … two years of extra education that the project provides have scored significantly higher on tests. …

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Education and Health Knowledge: Evidence from UK Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … 15) and 1972 (from 15 to 16) to provide exogenous variation in education. These reforms predominantly induced adolescents … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index …

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#ElectionEconomics: The Research Evidence on Key Issues for Voters in the 2015 UK General Election

Azmat, Ghazala; Bell, Brian; Colmer, Jonathan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Please see the CEP #ElectionEconomics report(Paper 1)and the Executive Summary (Paper 2) that cover all the election 2015 briefings, discussing the research evidence on 15 of the UK's key policy battlegrounds: immigration, austerity, real wages and living standards, productivity and business,...

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