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The dynamics of poverty : why some people escape from poverty and others don't ; an African case study

Grootaert, Christiaan; Kanbur, Ravi; Oh, Gi-taik - 1995

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The Value of Peripatetic Economists : A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

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Zero Returns to Compulsory Schooling In Germany : Evidence and Interpretation

Pischke, Jorn-Steffen - 2005

We estimate the impact of compulsory schooling on earnings using the changes in compulsory schooling laws for secondary schools in West German states during the period from 1948 to 1970. While our research design is very similar to studies for various other countries, we find very different...

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Latin America in the Rearview Mirror

Cole, Harold L. - 2004

Latin American countries are the only Western countries that are poor and that aren't gaining ground on the United States. This paper evaluates why Latin America has not replicated Western economic success. We find that this failure is primarily due to TFP differences. Latin America's TFP gap is...

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The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development : A Human Capital Perspective

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2004

inequalities in fertility, educational attainments, and three endogenous income inequality measures -- family-income inequality …, income-group inequality, and the Gini coefficient. In this context, we also reexamine the "Kuznets hypothesis" concerning the … relation between income growth and inequality …

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Do Institutions Cause Growth?

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004

We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...

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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract

Benabou, Roland - 2004

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the exporting' of inequality across borders; and how this, in …

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The Rise of the Skilled City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2003

For more than a century, educated cities have grown more quickly than comparable cities with less human capital. This fact survives a battery of other control variables, metropolitan area fixed effects and tests for reverse causality. We also find that skilled cities are growing because they are...

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Voice and Growth : Was Churchill Right?

Lindert, Peter H. - 2003

The debate over whether political democracy is the least bad regime, as Churchill once said, remains unresolved because history has been ignored or misread, and because recent statistical studies have not chosen the right tests. Using too little historical information, and mistaking formal...

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Health and the Wage : Cause, Effect, Both, or Neither? New Evidence on an Old Question

Dench, Daniel - 2018

We investigate two-way causality between health and the hourly wage by employing insights from the human capital and compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a...

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