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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216756
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790517
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752231
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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance
Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167200
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The Role of Historical Resource Constraints in Modern Gender Inequality: A Cross-Country Analysis
Hazarika, Gautam; Jha, Chandan Kumar; Sarangi, Sudipta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that persist to this day. This thesis is supported by our finding that nations’ historical resource endowments, as measured by the historical availability of arable land, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887060
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Ökonometrische Methoden zur Evaluierung kausaler Effekte der Wirtschaftspolitik
Kugler, Franziska; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
wirtschaftlich erreichen. In empirischen Studien, die als Grundlage für evidenzbasierte Wirtschaftspolitik dienen können, werden …-experimentellen Designs sollen der Wirtschaftspolitik helfen zu lernen, was funktioniert. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098067
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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822037
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The Quantity-Quality Tradeoff of Children in a Developing Country: Identification Using Chinese Twins
Li, Hongbin; Zhang, Junsen; Zhu, Yi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822059
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822171
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Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822199