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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 Topography of Nations

Allen, Treb - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

How does the interplay of geography and political-economic forces affect the shape of nations? This paper presents a … quantitative framework for characterizing the equilibrium evolution of national boundaries in a world with a rich geography. The … simple algorithm for its calculation. When combined with detailed spatial geography data from Europe, the equilibrium …

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Geography and Economic Development

Gallup, John Luke - 1998

This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in … which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects … of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find that location and climate have large effects on income levels …

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Distance to Hospitals and Children's Access to Care : Is Being Closer Better, and for Whom?

Currie, Janet - 1998

Distance to hospital may affect the utilization of primary preventative care if children rely on hospitals for such routine care. We explore this question using matched data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth's Child-Mother file and the American Hospital Association's 1990 Hospital...

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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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Time Zones as Cues for Coordination : Latitude, Longitude, and Letterman

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2006

Market productivity is often greater, and leisure and other household activities more enjoyable, when people perform them simultaneously. Beyond pointing out the positive externalities of synchronicity, economists have not attempted to identify exogenous determinants of timing. We develop a...

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Law, Endowment, and Finance

Beck, Thorsten - 2002

theory argues that the disease and geographical environment influence the formation of long-lasting institutions that …

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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 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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