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Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021

This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...

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Population Growth and Carbon Emissions

Casey, Gregory P. - 2017

We provide evidence that lower fertility can simultaneously increase income per capita and lower carbon emissions …, eliminating a trade-off central to most policies aimed at slowing global climate change. We estimate the effect of lower fertility … on carbon emissions accounting for the fact that changes in fertility patterns affect carbon emissions through three …

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The Impact of Urbanization on CO2 Emissions : Evidence from Developing Countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2021

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for...

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Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by 'Inventing' Fertility Restriction?

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2018

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

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Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I … find that local education finance yields higher growth at the price of increased inequality. Aggregate fertility may be …

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The Lasting Effects of Maternal Net Nutrition During US Economic Development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2016

When traditional measures for economic welfare are scarce or unreliable, stature and the body mass index (BMI) are now widely-accepted measures that reflect economic conditions. However, little work exists for late 19th and early 20th century women's BMIs in the US and how they varied with...

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Globalization and the Rise of Mega-Cities in the Developing World

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2021

Thomas Friedman has argued in The World is Flat that those who deny rapid globalization will not survive in the global economy. First, we critically discuss Friedman's views and highlight the new globalization driven by outsourcing and vertical specialization. Second, we argue that Friedman pays...

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Urbanization and Economic Development : A Tale of Two Barriers

Bond, Eric W. - 2016

In this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in rapidly industrializing countries. We use a dynamic, small open economy model with an abundant supply of surplus labor in rural areas, two types of traded goods manufactured in...

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Industrialisation and the Big Push in a Global Economy

Kreickemeier, Udo - 2017

In their famous paper on the “Big Push”, Murphy, Shleifer, and Vishny (1989) show how the combination of increasing returns to scale at the firm level and pecuniary externalities can give rise to a poverty trap, thereby formalising an old idea due to Rosenstein-Rodan (1943). We develop in...

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Machine Learning Indices, Political Institutions, and Economic Development

Gründler, Klaus - 2018

We present a new aggregation method - called SVM algorithm - and use this technique to produce novel measures of democracy (186 countries, 1960-2014). The method takes its name from a machine learning technique for pattern recognition and has three notable features: it makes functional...

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