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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2021
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316552
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Productivity Response to a Contract Change
Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2014
This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract, implemented at the end of a three-year cycle in which contracts are generally revised, was (a) the joint outcome of negotiations between twenty unions and plantations, (b)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056001
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009852
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Lifting the Veil : The Face of TFP in an Indian Rail Mill
Das, Sanghamitra - 2011
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122384
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Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Muralidharan, Karthik - 2017
outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012961949
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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - CESifo - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094269
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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Longevity Shocks with Age-Dependent Productivity Growth
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2015
The aim of this paper is to study the long-run effects of a longevity increase on individual decisions about education and retirement, taking macroeconomic repercussions through endogenous factor prices and the pension system into account. We build a model of a closed economy inhabited by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021702
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Economic Growth in Africa : Comparing Recent Improvements with the 'Lost 1980s and Early 1990s' and Estimating New Growth Trends
Leibfritz, Willi - 2013
In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa's average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082614
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The Negative Consequences of Overambitious Curricula in Developing Countries
Pritchett, Lant - 2013
. Using data from three recent studies in South Asia and Africa, we show that a majority of students spend years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089159