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Revisiting the role of the resource curse in shaping institutions and growth
Murshed, Murshed, S.M.; Badiuzzaman, Badiuzzaman, M.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2015
This paper examines the effect of natural resource dependence on growth in a cross-country setting during 1970 to 2010 … there is a resource curse adversely effecting growth via institutional deterioration in the longer term (1970-2010), but … more for growth, including governance and constraints on the executive relative to democracy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011195799
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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210414
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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Gräb, Gräb, J. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730640
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Spatial inequalities explained: evidence from Burkina Faso
Gräb, Johannes; Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
necessarily disappear as economies grow and that these disparities are itself an important driver of growth. We use a novel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005589950
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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2009
I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school.* Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602810
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Klasen, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007
There is a well-known debate about the respective roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095138
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, M.; Klasen, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2007
There is a well-known debate about the respective roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005399366
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Natural disasters impact, factors of resilience and development: A meta-analysis of the macroeconomic literature
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Lazzaroni, Lazzaroni, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
We systematize recent macroeconomic empirical literature on the direct and indirect impact of natural disasters providing a meta-analysis of 20 studies published during 2002-2013. We show that the disagreement between these studies is caused by the empirical design, the estimation technique and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730517
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Macroeconomics of natural disasters
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van; Lazzaroni, Lazzaroni, S. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
We use the case of the impact of natural disasters to analyse strengths and weaknesses of meta-analysis in an emerging research field. Macroeconomists have published on this issue since 2002 (we identified 22 studies to date). The results of the studies are contradictory and therefore the need...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011149217
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Healthcare Seeking Behavior among Self-help Group Households in Rural Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India
Bedi, Arjun Singh; Raza, Raza, W.A.; Panda, Panda, P.; … - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2013
insurance (CBHI) schemes have been functioning in rural India. These CBHI schemes may design their benefit packages according to … of India’s poorest states.1 We find that the majority of respondents do access some form of care and that there is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941757