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Can Peers Improve Agricultural Productivity?
Songsermsawas, Tisorn - 2014
Productivity varies greatly among farmers and the source of that variation is not fully understood. Using a unique …
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Democratic Tipping Points
Ciccone, Antonio - 2018
I examine whether transitory events can tip the scales against authoritarian regimes and lead to persistent democratization. I think of situations where this is a possibility as democratic tipping points. The transitory events I focus on are rainfall shocks in the most agricultural countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919235
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Worldviews and Intergenerational Altruism : A Comparison of Turkish People Living in Turkey and Germany
Akkemik, K. Ali - 2017
people living in Turkey and in Germany, using the anthropological concept of worldview. Data were gathered from four surveys …: nationwide surveys in Turkey and Germany, an online survey of Turkish people living in Germany, and a survey conducted as an … people living in Turkey and those who live in Germany. Turkish people living in Germany tend to resemble German people in …
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The Efficiency of Educational Production : A Comparison of the Nordic Countries with Other OECD Countries
Bogetoft, Peter - 2015
Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...
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Minorities, Human Capital and Long-Run Development : Persistence of Armenian and Greek Influence in Turkey
Arbatli, Cemal Eren - 2017
by their legacy on local human capital accumulation. In comparison, the mediating effect of minority asset transfer on …
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Why is Measured Productivity so Low in Agriculture?
Herrendorf, Berthold - 2015
In poor countries, labor productivity in agriculture is considerably lower than in the rest of the economy. We assess … than through labor productivities. Third, labor productivity in agriculture is severely mis-measured in the US … between the marginal value products of agriculture and non-agriculture are considerably smaller when measured through wages …
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Coping with Change : International Differences in the Returns to Skills
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
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Elite Education, Mass Education, and the Transition to Modern Growth
Strulik, Holger - 2015
We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive ability. We show that compulsory schooling can move a society from elite education to mass education, which then triggers market R&D. This means that our model rationalizes two...
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Trends and Patterns of Growth, Development, Achievements of China and India : A Comparative Analysis
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016
Even before the onset of the 2008 global financial crisis and ongoing European debt crisis, much attention has been given to the re-emergence of the Asian giants, the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. Both countries have attained unprecedented growth and economic development — PRC...
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Natural Resources : Curse or Blessing?
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2013
Are natural resources a “curse” or a “blessing”? The empirical evidence suggests either outcome is possible. The paper surveys a variety of hypotheses and supporting evidence for why some countries benefit and others lose from the presence of natural resources. These include that a...
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