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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … liberalizing migration would increase welfare more than three-fold and would significantly affect the evolution of particular …

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What Do We Know about Microfinance at Macro Glance?

Alimukhamedova, Nargiza; Hanousek, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

contrast we aim to identify the impact on whole economies (economic growth, and financial sector development and reductions in …

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Public Procurement and Rent-Seeking: The Case of Paraguay

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Flochel, Thomas; Straub, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A model of entrepreneurial choices in an economy with a corrupt public procurement sector is built, providing predictions along two main dimensions. First, corruption is more frequent in sectors where public institutions are large buyers. Second, firms favoured with corrupt contracts enjoy extra...

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Fragile States and Development Policy

Besley, Timothy J.; Persson, Torsten - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

It is widely recognized that fragile states are key symptoms of under-development in many parts of the world. Such …, mainstream development economics has not dealt in any systematic way with such concerns and the implications for development … assistance. This paper puts forward a framework for analyzing fragile states and applies it to a variety of development policies …

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Growth, Selection and Appropriate Contracts

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Gancia, Gino A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

-term contracts sacrificing managerial selection may be optimal at early stages of economic development and when access to information …

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to their husbands) benefits children. Does this observation imply that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? We develop a series of noncooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of...

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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the long-run consequences of the scramble for Africa among European powers in the late 19th century and uncover the following empirical regularities. First, using information on the spatial distribution of African ethnicities before colonization, we show that borders were arbitrarily...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

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The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959-61

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy; Yared, Pierre - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper investigates the institutional causes of China's Great Famine. It presents two empirical findings: 1) in 1959, when the famine began, food production was almost three times more than population subsistence needs; and 2) regions with higher per capita food production that year suffered...

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Learning the Wealth of Nations

Buera, Francisco; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; Primiceri, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We study the evolution of market-oriented policies over time and across countries. We consider a model in which own and …

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