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INCOME CONVERGENCE DURING THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY 1919-39

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

Some economists have argued that the process of disintegration of the world economy between the two World Wars led to income divergence between the countries. This is in keeping with the view that economic integration leads to income convergence. The paper shows that the view that the period...

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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...

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Trading Population for Productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004

This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a significant role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a...

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AN ESTIMATE OF AVERAGE INCOME AND INEQUALITY IN BYZANTIUM AROUND YEAR 1000

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

Using recent economic statistics from the peak period of Byzantine political and economic influence, we estimate the average income around the year 1000 to have been about 6 nomismata per capita per annum. This is then translated into current prices using two independent methods. They both yield...

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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective

Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004

Raising school enrollment, like economic development in general, takes a long time. This is partly because, as a mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children's school enrollment to a greater degree than education...

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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

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The History of Tipping - From Sixteenth-Century England to United States in the 1910s

Azar, Ofer H. - EconWPA - 2003

Tipping is a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon that challenges the traditional assumption of selfish economic agents who have no feelings and do not care about social norms. This article reviews the early history of tipping and offers an economic analysis of different aspects of tipping. Using the...

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THE TWO FACES OF GLOBALIZATION: AGAINST GLOBALIZATION AS WE KNOW IT

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2003

The paper shows that the current view of globalization as an automatic and benign force is flawed: it focuses on only one, positive, face of globalization while entirely neglecting a malignant one. The two key historical episodes that are adduced by the supporters of the “globalization as it...

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Relationship between Income and Emergence of Democracy Reexamined, 1820-2000: A non-parametric approach

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

The paper contrasts Lipset’s modernization hypothesis and Przeworski- Limongi hypothesis that entries into democracy … are random with respect to income. We use data on income and democracy going back to 1820, multiple definitions of … democracy, and non-parametric testing focusing on the distribution of entrants’ incomes. We find that income matters for entry …

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Context Matters – Rethinking the Resource Curse in Sub-Saharan Africa

Basedau, Matthias - EconWPA - 2005

Natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from a bad reputation. Oil and diamonds, particularly, have been blamed for a number of Africa’s illnesses such as poverty, corruption, dictatorship and war. This paper outlines the different areas and transmission channels of how this so-called...

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