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the demand toward the product with a higher learning potential, thus enhancing economic growth in the exporter economy …
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This article traces inequality and numeracy development in the regions of Chile during the 19th and early 20th century … received the necessary education to make full use of their talent for the regional economy, especially in the south. However …, in its northern regions we find that Chile was relatively equal and numerate during the 19th century, and the south …
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options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …
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introduction of standard regulations aimed at limiting profit shifting. Using administrative tax and customs data from Chile in …
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integrated economy, both relative to integration across the borders of the German state and in absolute terms. Second, this …
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An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...
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This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...
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This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...
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Existing evidence, mostly from British textile industries, rejects the importance of formal education for the Industrial Revolution. We provide new evidence from Prussia, a technological follower, where early-19th-century institutional reforms created the conditions to adopt the exogenously...
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In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end - indeed it did not end before 1945. Both, domestic and international...
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