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’ for higher education institutions, or in other words provide them with appropriate resources and regulatory environments …
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This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
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inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with … institutions of higher quality when inequality is lower. …
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, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …
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This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust … market and the product market. The last part reviews recent progress to identify how institutions and policies can affect …
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We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct risk-sharing institutions – even those providing the same level of insurance – can lead to … different growth trajectories if they differently motivate risk-taking. Historically, risk sharing institutions were selected …
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We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...
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We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 … unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public … confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
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This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by …
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In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
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