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We study the impact of the Indian trade liberalization of 1991 on development at the district level using satellite nighttime lights per capita as a proxy for development. We find that on average trade liberalization increased nighttime lights per capita but there was considerable heterogeneity...
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We use panel data from Germany to analyze the effect of population density on urban air pollution (nitrogen oxides, particulate matter and ozone). To address unobserved heterogeneity and omitted variables, we present long difference/fixed effects estimates and instrumental variables estimates,...
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of land types, rather than through local geography …
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We look at a part of the spatial angle of economic growth. We introduce a new measure Spatial Population Concentration (SPC) that captures the weighted average population surrounding every person within a geographic area. The weights are a function of the distance between the person in question...
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There is limited public discourse and understanding about the history and science of weather and climate intervention …, climate-related geoengineering is steadily gaining support as a means of combatting rising global temperatures. With climate … climate intervention with the aim of answering the question: Why aren’t more economists interested in evaluating weather and …
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I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … variability. The climate effect is larger that the weather effect …
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There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
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attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in light of existing methodological gaps across fields, has perhaps …
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France. I consider the separate cases of France and Poland to show my results shed light on country-specific debates. …
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In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could …
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