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Education and health knowledge: evidence from UK compulsory schooling reforms
Johnston, David W.; Lordan, Grace; Shields, Michael A.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We investigate if there is a causal link between education and health knowledge using data from the 1984/85 and 1991 … education significantly increases health knowledge, with a one-year increase in schooling increasing the health knowledge index … due to the education reforms did not significantly affect health knowledge: a one-year increase in schooling is estimated …
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Scarce or abundant?: the economics of natural resource availability
Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
Most natural resources that are used in production are non-renewable. When they become depleted they are lost for future use. Does it follow that the limited availability of natural resources will at some time in the future constrain economic growth as many environmentalists believe? While...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928744
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Do giant oilfield discoveries fuel internal armed conflicts?
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...
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Giant oilfields and civil conflict
Lei, Yu-Hsiang; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We use new data to examine the effects of giant oilfield discoveries around the world since 1946. On average, these discoveries increase per capita oil production and oil exports by up to 50 percent. But these giant oilfield discoveries also have a dark side: they increase the incidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746045
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Political economy of natural resource revenue sharing in Indonesia
Agustina, Cut Dian; Ahmad, Ehtisham; Nugroho, Dhanie; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
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Optimal monetary responses to oil discoveries
Wills, Samuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper studies how monetary policy should respond to news about an oil discovery, using a workhorse New Keynesian model. Good news about future production can create a recession today under exchange rate pegs and a simple Taylor rule, as seen in practice. This is explained by forward-looking...
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Challenges for research on resource-rich economies
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
The scope for economic research on resource-rich countries has widened considerably over the past two decades. While examination of market-based channels mechanisms (such as spending effects and exchange-rate appreciation) and resource price volatility are still important, other issues are...
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Spatial agglomeration dynamics
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3- dimensional featureless global geography. The same economic forces influence simultaneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering. Economic activity is not concentrated on discrete...
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Transnational spatial dependencies in the geography of non-resident patent filings
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
This article provides new insights into how geography shapes spatiotemporal variations in the propensity of actors from particular countries to file for non-resident patents in specific foreign economies. Our major contribution is to show that, in addition to bilateral exports and outward...
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Digital goods and the new economy
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Digital goods are bitstrings, sequences of 0s and 1s, which have economic value. They are distinguished from other goods by five characteristics: digital goods are nonrival, infinitely expansible, discrete, aspatial, and recombinant. The New Economy is one where the economics of digital goods...
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