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We suggest that the geographical patterns of income differences across the world have deep underpinnings. We emphasize that economic development is a complex process driven by economic, political, social, and biophysical forces. Some economists have argued that the patterns reflect mainly the...
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Africa and Sweden to illustrate that inequality dynamics cannot be understood without embedding economic factors in the …
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Why was the Black Death followed by the decline of serfdom in Western Europe but its' intensification in Eastern Europe? What explains why involvement in Atlantic trade in the Early Modern period was positively correlated with economic growth in Britain but negatively correlated in Spain? Why...
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-development institutions, how should one understand why Imperial China, with weaker rule of law and property rights, gave the commoners more … par with the Elites in China in terms of power and rights. Based on these narratives, we build a game-theoretical model … stronger, and the Ruler's incentive to promote such symmetry will be greater. The theory explains the power structure …
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vulnerability, drawing lessons from a detailed comparison of the response of Chile and Australia to recent external shocks and from … useful to identify and then distinguish between two inter-related dimensions of investors' confidence: country-trust and … to improve along these two dimensions of investors' confidence in the medium run, and policies to reduce the impact of …
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footprint effects for immigrants' confidence in political institutions. Taken together, these findings support the notion that …
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neoclassical theory to develop and test hypotheses in economic history. But empirical consideration of economic and political … on complexity theory to further supplement the NIE and Cliometrics …
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An emerging economic literature over the past decade has made use of international tests of educational achievement to analyze the determinants and impacts of cognitive skills. The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit...
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centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … identify the rise and fall of centralized wage-setting arrangements as a major factor in the evolution of Sweden's industry … accounted for about 40 percent of U.S.-Swedish differences in the industry distribution. The dissolution of Sweden's centralized …
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This working paper presents Chapter 7 of a book to be published for the National Bureau of Economic Research by the University of Chicago Press. The point of the book is to compare taxes on income from capital in four countries,accounting for corporate, personal, and property taxes, and...
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