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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453625
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453757
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463730
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466315
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469624
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471963
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471975
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457579
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457584
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459151