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Natural Resource Dependency and Quality of Government

Anthonsen, Mette; Löfgren, Åsa; Nilsson, Klas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper introduces quality of government rather than regime type as dependent variable in studies of the political effects of natural resources. It consists of two parts. First, it theorizes the role of fiscal dependency of oil and gas rents in relation to three different dimensions of...

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State History and Economic Development: Evidence from Six Millennia

Borcan, Oana; Olsson, Ola; Putterman, Louis - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

All since the rise of the first civilizations, economic development has been closely intertwined with the evolution of states. In this paper, we contribute to the literature on state history and long-run economic development in four ways. First, we extend and complete the state history index...

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A Western Reversal since the Neolithic? The long-run impact of early agriculture

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2013

http://hdl.handle.net/2077/32052 While it is widely believed that regions which experienced a transition to Neolithic agriculture early also become institutionally and conomically more advanced, many indicators suggest that within the Western agricultural core (including Europe, North Africa,...

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Long-Run Cultural Divergence: Evidence From the Neolithic Revolution

Olsson, Ola; Paik, Christopher - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2015

have also had very little experience of democracy during the last century. The findings add to the literature by suggesting …

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The Causal Effects of Ethnic Diversity: An Instrumental Variables Approach

Ahlerup, Pelle - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Ethnic diversity is endogenous to economic development in the long run. Yet the standard approach in economic research is to treat ethnic diversity as an exogenous factor. By identifying instruments for ethnic diversity, we correct this misspeci ca- tion and establish that ethnic diversity has...

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Does a Diversification Motive Influence Children’s School Entry in the Ethiopian Highlands?

Lindskog, Annika - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

Household-level diversification of human capital investments is investigated. A simple model is developed, followed by … an empirical analysis using 2000-2007 data from the rural Amhara region of Ethiopia. Diversification would imply negative … suggest diversification across brothers, but are not statistically strong, and with forces creating positive sibling …

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An Empirical Test of Purchasing Power Parity in Selected African Countries - a Panel Data Approach

Mkenda, Beatrice Kalinda - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001

The paper tests whether the theory of Purchasing Power Parity holds in a selected sample of twenty African countries. The paper employs a panel unit root test to test whether the real exchange rates in the panel are mean reverting or not. The test employed is the Im et al (1997) test. Results...

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Fiscal capacity and government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bigsten, Arne - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2011

Historical evidence from the developed world suggests that the expansion of the mod- ern states’ fiscal capacity (i. e. its ability to tax citizens) eventually led to more democratic and less corrupt governments. Since sub-Saharan African countries are currently in a pro- cess of state...

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Decomposed Effects of Democracy on Economic Freedom

Lundström, Susanna - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

Many previous empirical studies conclude that democracy increases economic freedom. However, these studies use highly … this study is to empirically study how different categories of economic freedom are affected by democracy in developing … countries. There seems to be a positive effect of democracy on the categories Government Operations and Regulations and …

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On the Institutional Legacy of Mercantilist and Imperialist Colonialism

Olsson, Ola - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

scramble for Africa. When we broaden the analysis, it is shown that the positive effect of colonial duration on democracy is … that a long history of statehood is bad for democracy while there is almost no effect of the national identity of the …

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