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Did caselaw foster England's economic development during the industrial revolution? : data and evidence
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2022
We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...
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Nighttime lights as a proxy for human development at the local level
Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017
Nighttime lights are increasingly used by social scientists as a proxy for economic activity and economic development in subnational spatial units. However, so far, our understanding of what nighttime lights capture is limited. We construct local indicators of household wealth, education and...
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China and the World Bank : how contrasting development approaches affect the stability of African states
Gehring, Kai; Kaplan, Lennart; Wong, Melvin H. L. - 2019
analyze a broad range of subnational stability measures in Africa. Aid by both the WB and China does not increase outright …
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Priority roads : the political economy of Africa's interior-to-coast roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … investigate the political determinants of road paving in West Africa across the 1965-2012 period. Controlling for geography and … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …
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Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? : A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects
Dreher, Axel; Fuchs, Andreas; Hodler, Roland; Parks, Bradley - 2019
Chinese aid comes with few strings attached, allowing recipient country leaders to use it for domestic political purposes. The vulnerability of Chinese aid to political capture has prompted speculation that it may be economically ineffective, or even harmful. We test these claims by estimating...
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Spatial diffusion of economic shocks in networks
Amarasinghe, Ashani; Hodler, Roland; Raschky, Paul A.; … - 2018
local economic shocks across Africa. We further show how counterfactual exercises based on these estimates and the …
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Maize and precolonial Africa
Cherniwchan, Jevan; Moreno Cruz, Juan - 2018
. We study an overlooked part of this Columbian Exchange: the effects of New World crops in Africa. Specifically, we test … Africa. We find robust empirical support for these predictions. We also find little evidence to suggest maize increased …
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Planning ahead for better neighborhoods : long run evidence from Tanzania
Michaels, Guy; Nigmatulina, Dzhamilya; Rauch, Ferdinand; … - 2017
What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build their own homes? We study "Sites and Services" projects implemented in seven Tanzanian cities during the 1970s and 1980s, half of which provided infrastructure in previously...
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Corruption and access to socio-economic services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
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The out of Africa hypothesis of comparative economic development : common misconceptions
Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …
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