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Spatial Patterns of Development : A Meso Approach

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2017

Over the last two decades, the literature on comparative development has moved from country-level to within-country analyses. The questions asked have expanded, as economists have used satellite images of light density at night and other big spatial data to proxy for development at the desired...

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Experimentation at Scale

Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017

This paper makes the case for greater use of randomized experiments "at scale." We review various critiques of experimental program evaluation in developing countries, and discuss how experimenting at scale along three specific dimensions - the size of the sampling frame, the number of units...

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The Geography of Development : Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Desmet, Klaus - 2015

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with …

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Production Networks, Geography and Firm Performance

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2015

This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production …

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Development, Structure, and Transformation : Some Evidence on Comparative Economic Growth

McCord, Gordon C. - 2013

that geography's effects on development occurred exclusively through its effects on this historical institutional … in the natural resource base and physical geography (e.g. distance to coast), and by the amplification of those …, technology, and geography, and that none of these alone is sufficient to account for the diverse patterns of global growth. We …

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How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

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Cultural Diversity, Geographical Isolation, and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul - 2011

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...

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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul - 2011

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that, in the course of the...

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The Geography of Fear

Treisman, Daniel - 2011

Whether the danger invoked is nuclear war or genetically modified foods, far more people in some countries than in others say they are afraid. Using data from six surveys, I show that the levels of reported fear of different dangers correlate strongly across both individuals and countries. I...

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Ruggedness : The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

There is controversy about whether geography matters mainly because of its contemporaneous impact on economic outcomes …

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