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Land reform, poverty reduction and growth : evidence from India
Besley, Timothy; Burgess, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
In recent times there has been a renewed interest in relationships between redistribution, growth and welfare. Land reforms have been central to strategies to improve the asset base of the poor in developing countries thought their effectiveness has been hindered by political constraints on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746031
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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil
Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746388
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A Note on Partitioning Effects Estimates Over Space
Court, Christa; Lacombe, Donald - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2011
In this paper we provide an applied example for calculating the so-called effects estimates of LeSage and Pace (2009) for partitions of the impacts over space. While the partitioning of the impacts by orders of neighbors over space for the spatial autoregressive (SAR) model is a relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929338
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Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2011
The authors employ spatial econometric techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometric techniques account for the fact that employment is correlated across states....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929359
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A Note on Partitioning Effects Estimates Over Space
Court, Christa; Lacombe, Donald - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2011
In this paper we provide an applied example for calculating the so-called effects estimates of LeSage and Pace (2009) for partitions of the impacts over space. While the partitioning of the impacts by orders of neighbors over space for the spatial autoregressive (SAR) model is a relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778449
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Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Lacombe, Donald - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2011
The authors employ spatial econometric techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometric techniques account for the fact that employment is correlated across states....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778456
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The marginal product of capital
Caselli, Francesco; Feyrer, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. We use easily accessible macroeconomic data to shed light on this issue, and find that MPKs are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928591
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Is Poland the next Spain?
Caselli, Francesco; Tenreyro, Silvana - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We revisit Western Europe’s record with labor-productivity convergence, and tentatively extrapolate its implications … capital accumulation and TFP growth reflect convergence along two margins. One margin (between industry) is a massive …. Coupled with the fact that within-industry productivity gaps are enormous, this suggests that convergence will take a long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745276
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The contribution of schooling in development accounting: results from a nonparametric upper bound
Caselli, Francesco; Ciccone, Antonio - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
How much would output increase if underdeveloped economies were to increase their levels of schooling? We contribute to the development accounting literature by describing a nonparametric upper bound on the increase in output that can be generated by more schooling. The advantage of our approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745364
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Leader behavior and the natural resource curse
Caselli, Francesco; Cunningham, Tom - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse, in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy’s total value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rents will alter the incentives of a political leader....
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