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Economic Voting and Electoral Behaviour: How do Individual, Local and National Factors Affect the Partisan Choice?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

What impact do income and other demographic factors have on a voter’s partisan choice? Using post-election surveys of 14,000 voters in ten Australian elections between 1966 and 2001, I explore the impact that individual, local and national factors have on voters’ decisions. In these ten...

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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Cosar, Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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Growth and Human Capital: A Network Approach

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Giannitsarou, Chryssi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a standard endogenous growth model with overlapping generations. The human capital of a household depends on investment in education and on average human capital of the...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

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

-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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Black Man’s Burden: Measured Philanthropy in the British Empire, 1880-1913

Accominotti, Olivier; Flandreau, Marc; Rezzik, Riad; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Ferguson and Schularick (2006) recently provided a measure of the effect of Empire subjection on borrowing countries’ interest rates. They find this effect to be large and significant, ranging between 80 to 180 basis points. We argue that their methodology is inadequate and that their...

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Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development

Rodrik, Dani; Subramanian, Arvind; Trebbi, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the … world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of … institutions 'trumps' everything else. Once institutions are controlled for, measures of geography have at best weak direct effects …

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Democracy and Foreign Education

Spilimbergo, Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Do foreign educated individuals play a role in promoting democracy in their home country? Despite the large amount of private and public resources spent on foreign education, there is no systematic evidence that foreign educated individuals foster democracy in their home countries. Using a...

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Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence

Bértola, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

excessively focused on original colonial institutions and their lasting effects, and for neglecting to some extent how these … institutions changed in relation to a profound transformation in international relations and technological environments, as …

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Inequality and Institutions

Chong, Alberto; Gradstein, Mark - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We exhibit a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set to test this relationship with a broad array of institutional measures. We establish the double causality between...

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Economic Backwardness in Political Perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We construct a simple model where political elites may block technological and institutional development, because of a ‘political replacement effect.’ Innovations often erode elites’ incumbency advantage, increasing the likelihood that they will be replaced. Fearing replacement, political...

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