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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458895
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Missing Discussions : Institutional Constraints in the Islamic Political Tradition
Gitmez, A. Arda; Robinson, James A.; Shadmehr, Mehdi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
well functioning political institutions and good public policy outcomes in the Western World since the time of ancient … new puzzle: such an intellectual tradition did not exist in the Islamic world, even if the potential for abuse was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226113
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522996
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470966
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation
Acemoglu, Daron - 2000
We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470979
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Abundance from Abroad : Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
Khanna, Gaurav; Murathanoglu, Emir; Theoharides, Caroline; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
How does income from international migrant labor affect the long-run development of migrant-origin areas? We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis to identify exogenous changes in international migrant income across regions of the Philippines, derived from spatial variation in exposure to...
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Patents, Innovation, and Development
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2020
, beginning with a brief history of international patent systems and facts about the current use of patents around the world. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481786
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462215
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Does a Leapfrogging Growth Strategy Raise Growth Rate? Some International Evidence
Wang, Zhi - 2010
While openness to trade is a well-recognized hallmark of many successful emerging market economies known as "growth miracles," another component of the growth model is a leapfrogging strategy - the use of policies to guide the industrial structural transformation ahead of a country's factor...
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The Value of Luminosity Data as a Proxy for Economic Statistics
Chen, Xi - 2010
One of the pervasive issues in social and environmental research has been to improve the quality of socioeconomic data in developing countries. Because of the shortcoming of standard data sources, the present study examines luminosity (measures of nighttime lights) as a proxy for standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462340