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Early Starts, Reversals and Catchup in The Process of Economic Development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - EconWPA - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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A Microeconomic Analysis of Slavery in Comparison to Free Labor Economies
Ergin, Haluk I.; Sayan, Serdar - EconWPA - 1997
In addition to supervision costs, the labor cost of an enterprise (plantation) in the system of slavery consists of the cost of acquiring the slaves and the subsistence compensation given out to the slaves. In this paper, we leave aside the issue of supervision costs previously taken up in the...
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Part-Year Operation in 19th Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses
Atak, Jeremy; Bateman, Fred; Margo, Robert A. - EconWPA - 2001
Using unpublished data contained in samples from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of manufactures¾the earliest comprehensive estimates available¾ this study examines the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late 19th century. While the typical manufacturing...
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The Road to Extinction: Commons with Capital Markets
Dutta, Jayasri; Rowat, Colin - EconWPA - 2004
We study extinction in a commons problem in which agents have access to capital markets. When the commons grows more … quickly than the interest rate, multiple equilibria are found for intermediate commons endowments. In one of these, extinction …, there is a unique extinction date for each endowment level. …
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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan
Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004
This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...
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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development
Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004
This paper, a synthesis of salient findings of the authors’ book entitled “Investment Climate Around the World: Voices of the Firms from the World Business Environment Survey”, and based on a chapter in “Pathways Out of Poverty: Private Firms and Economic Mobility in Developing...
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How Do People Learn by Listening to Others? Experimental Evidence from Thailand
Healy, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents experimental evidence about how individuals learn from information that comes from inside versus outside their ethnic group. In the experiment, Thai subjects observed information that came from Americans and other Thais that they could use to help them answer a series of...
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Land Inequality and the Origin of Divergence and Overtaking in the Growth Process
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - EconWPA - 2004
This research develops a unified growth theory that captures the transition from the domination of geographical factors\ in the determination of productivity in early stages of development to the domination of institutional factors in mature stages of development. It identifies a novel channel...
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Economia sintetica
Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 1998
Theoretical study identifying one modality with conditions necesary for the financial stabilization of an inherently unstable system; and 5040 other unstable dynamic modes. It draws on knowledge made available by the academic field of Control Engineering.
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Natural Selection and the Evolution of Life Expectancy
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - EconWPA - 2004
This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the intricate time path of life expectancy in the process of development, shedding new light on the origin of the remarkable rise in life expectancy since the Agricultural Revolution. The theory argues that social, economic and...
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