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landowners or landless; both earn income from human capital, but only landowners earn income from land. The central assumption is … follows depends on the level of land productivity. An agricultural revolution is thus a necessary precondition for a later …
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agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … production. The ``organization'' of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … ruler owns both land and people; and finally into a society with a free labor market, where the ruler owns all land but all …
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agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … production. The "organization" of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … ruler owns both land and people; and finally into a society with a free labor market, where the ruler owns all land but all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125652
The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in … population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed …
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Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades. This impact study unravels the various factors behind these changes. Economic growth has been important, but so have major public sector interventions, notably reproductive...
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If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline …
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landowners or landless; both earn income from human capital, but only landowners earn income from land. The central assumption is … follows depends on the level of land productivity. An agricultural revolution is thus a necessary precondition for a later …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556717
This paper aims at estimating the effect on achievement of various types of schools: private, private but government-dependent and public ones. It is based on the analysis of Reading test scores of 15-year-old students surveyed in 2002 across OECD and non-OECD countries. The estimation of the...
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This paper considers an economy where groups compete in a contest for power to redistribute future income in their favor. An increased external threat of terrorism--either an increase in the likelihood of a successful terrorist attack or a greater loss of income in the event of a successful...
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This paper develops a positive analysis of alliance formation that builds on a simple economic model featuring a “winner-take-all” contest for control of some resource. When an alliance forms, members pool their efforts in that contest and,if successful, apply the resource to a joint...
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