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Land inequality, eduction, and marriage : empirical evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2016

In this study we review the literature on the relationship between landownership inequality and the accumulation of human capital in historical perspective. Furthermore we provide new evidence on the relationship between landownership inequality and marriage patterns at the county level in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536183

Bringing the Copenhagen global climate change negotiations to conclusion

Whalley, John (contributor); Walsh, Sean (contributor) - 2008

(China, India, Russia, Brazil) on the other. -- Climate change ; global negotiation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790759

All about the giants : probing the influences on growth and income inequality at the end of the 20th century

Berry, R. Albert; Serieux, John - 2003

This paper presents estimates of world output growth from 1970 to 2000, the distribution of income among countries and … persons for the years 1980, 1990 and 2000, and world poverty rates for the same years. It also presents the results of a … series of simulation exercises that attempt isolate the effect of particular country and regional experiences on world output …

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Systemic crises and growth

Rancière, Romain (contributor); Tornell, Aaron (contributor) - 2005

In this paper, we document the fact that countries that have experienced occasional financial crises have, on average, grown faster than countries with stable financial conditions. We measure the incidence of crisis with the skewness of credit growth, and find that it has a robust negative...

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Thanks but no thanks : a new policy to reduce land conflict

Dufwenberg, Martin; Köhlin, Gunnar; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Land conflicts in developing countries are costly. An important policy goal is to create respect for borders. This often involves mandatory, expensive interventions. We propose a new policy design, which in theory promotes neighborly relations at low cost. A salient feature is the option to...

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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011

This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...

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Agricultural trade, biodiversity effects and food price volatility

Bellora, Cecilia; Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2015

Biotic factors such as pests create biodiversity effects that increase production risks and decrease land productivity when agriculture becomes more specialized. We show in a Ricardian two-country trade setup that production specialization is incomplete under free trade because of the decrease...

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Teacher unions, teacher pay and student performance in India : a pupil fixed effects approach

Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (contributor); … - 2008

-section of data from private schools in India. We use differences in student mark across subjects to identify within … achievement. -- Teacher unions ; teacher salaries ; student achievement ; productivity ; India …

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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies

Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009

We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861779

The rapidly deepening India-China economic relationship

Whalley, John; Shekhar, Tanmaya - 2010

In this paper we focus on the rapidly deepening bilateral India-China economic relationship. Each is deeply integrating … into the global economy through trade and FDI inflows, China is seen as primarily manufacturing-lead growth with India as … service-lead growth (see Rodrick & Subramanian (2006)). An alternative view is that India is effectively a lagged version of …

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