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War and Women's Work: Evidence from the Conflict in Nepal

Menon, Nidhiya; van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines how Nepal’s 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women’s decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women’s employment decisions. Results...

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An 'integrated' framework for the comparative analysis of the territorial innovation dynamics of developed and emerging countries

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2012

outlines a conceptual framework to explain the differences between innovation systems and their geography by drawing on … elements of endogenous growth, new economic geography and regional innovation systems. This framework forms the basis of the …

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Institutional Development and Colonial Heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo R.; Assunção, Juliano J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...

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Ruggedness: The blessing of bad geography in Africa

Nunn, Nathan; Puga, Diego - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2007

There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes …

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Well-being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...

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The Aggregate Effects of Trade and Migration: Evidence from OECD Countries

Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

trade and immigration flows are based on geography and the demographic trends of each country’s trade and migration partners …

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Firm collaboration and modes of innovation in Norway

Fitjar, Rune Dahl; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2011

This paper examines the sources of firm product and process innovation in Norway. It uses a purpose-built survey of 1604 firms in the five largest Norwegian city-regions to test, by means of a logit regression analysis, Jensen et al.'s (2007) contention that firm innovation is both the result of...

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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