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Shleifer, Andrei; Botero, Juan; Ponce, Alejandro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

survey data on reporting crime and corruption. Citizen complaints might thus be an operative mechanism that explains the link …

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Finance and Inequality: Theory and Evidence

Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

This paper critically reviews the literature on finance and inequality, highlighting substantive gaps in the literature …. Finance plays a crucial role in most theories of persistent inequality. Unsurprisingly, therefore, economic theory provides a … rich set of predictions concerning both the impact of finance on inequality and about the relevant mechanisms. Although …

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Implications of an Economic Theory of Conflict: Hindu-Muslim Violence in India

Ray, Debraj; Mitra, Anirban - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We model inter-group conflict driven by economic changes within groups. We show that if group incomes are low, increasing group incomes raises violence against that group, and lowers violence generated by it. We then apply the model to data on Hindu-Muslim violence in India. Our main result is...

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Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage

Harrison, Ann E.; Lin, Justin Yifu; Xu, L. Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. In this paper, we use firm-level data for around 80 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms perform significantly worse than firms in other regions. They have lower...

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Evaluating the Role of Science Philanthropy in American Research Universities

Murray, Fiona E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Philanthropy plays a major role in university-based scientific, engineering and medical research in the United States contributing over $4Billion annually to operations, endowment and buildings devoted to research. When combined with endowment income, university research funding from science...

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Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We investigate the role of deeply-rooted pre-colonial ethnic institutions in shaping comparative regional development within African countries. We combine information on the spatial distribution of ethnicities before colonization with regional variation in contemporary economic performance, as...

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Growth in Regions

La Porta, Rafael; Lopez-de-Silanes, Florencio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We use a newly assembled sample of 1,503 regions from 82 countries to compare the speed of per capita income convergence within and across countries. Regional growth is shaped by similar factors as national growth, such as geography and human capital. Regional convergence is about 2.5% per year,...

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Product and Labor Market Regulations, Production Prices, Wages and Productivity

MAIRESSE, Jacques; Cette, Gilbert; Lopez, Jimmy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

equation on an industry*country panel, with controls for country*industry and country*year fixed effects, show that multi …

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Does Finance Cause Growth? Evidence from the Origins of Banking in Russia

Berkowitz, Daniel; Hoekstra, Mark; Schoors, Koen - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper examines the effect of banking on economic growth in modern Russia. To overcome simultaneity and selection, we exploit regional banking variation induced by the creation of "specialized banks" (spetsbanks) in the last years of the Soviet Union (1988-1991). Consistent with the...

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Deal with the Devil: The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India

Dhaliwal, Iqbal; Hanna, Rema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in the attendance of the medical staff. Health outcomes improved, with a 16 percent increase in the delivery of infants by a doctor and a 26 percent...

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