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Alesina, Alberto - 1995

This paper studies the equilibrium determination of the number of political jurisdictions in different political regimes, democratic or not, and in different economic environments, with more or less economic integration. We focus on the trade off between the benefits of large jurisdictions in...

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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars

Alesina, Alberto - 2017

homogenize the population with nation-building. This paper explores a variety of ways in which nation-building can be implemented …

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Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa

Osafo-Kwaako, Philip - 2013

In this paper we investigate the empirical correlates of political centralization using data from the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. We specifically investigate the explanatory power of the standard models of Eurasian state formation which emphasize the importance of high population density,...

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What Motivates Leaders to Invest in Nation-Building?

Giuliano, Paola; Reich, Bryony; Riboni, Alessandro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Why do some leaders invest in significant nation-building policies and others do not? Why does nation-building occur at … certain junctures in time and not others? In our research, we investigate what motivates leaders to nation build. We argue … that threats to their regime motivate rulers to invest in significant nation-building and that the type of threats that …

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State-building in a diverse society

Carlitz, Ruth D.; Morjaria, Ameet; Mueller, Joris M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Diversity poses fundamental challenges to state-building and development. We study the effects of one of post-colonial Africa's largest policy experiments -- the Tanzanian Ujamaa policy -- which attempted to address these challenges. Ujamaa aimed to create a national identity and consolidate...

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Fertility, Migration, and Altruism

Berman, Eli - 2000

Consider migration to a higher income region as a human capital investment in which parents bear migration costs and children share returns. Migrants from a population with heterogeneous intergenerational discount rates will be self-selected on intergenerational altruism. Thus, immigrants may be...

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Autopsy on an Empire : Understanding Mortality in Russia and the Former Soviet Union

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2004

Male life expectancy at birth fell by over six years in Russia between 1989 and 1994. Many other countries of the former Soviet Union saw similar declines, and female life expectancy fell as well. Using cross-country and Russian household survey data, we assess six possible explanations for this...

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Border Delays and Trade Liberalization

Cudmore, Edgar - 2003

Delays at the border for customs clearance are seemingly a central feature of the trade regime in the CIS states. Here, we argue that with queuing costs being endogenously determined in such circumstances tariff liberalization (even in the small economy case) can be welfare worsening since...

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Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union in Light of the East Asian Experiences

Sachs, Jeffrey D. - 1996

During the past five years, there has been an important debate over the differing styles of market reforms in the formerly planned economies in East Asia versus Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union (EEFSU). This paper puts forward three related propositions. First, the rapid growth of East...

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Which Peers Matter? The Relative Impacts of Collaborators, Colleagues, and Competitors

Borjas, George J. - 2014

Many economists believe knowledge production generates positive spillovers among knowledge producers. The available evidence, however, is mixed. We argue that spillovers can exist along three dimensions (idea, geographic, and collaboration space). To isolate the key channel through which...

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