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How deep are the roots of economic development?
Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2012
The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...
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Physiological constraints and comparative economic development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2017
the world today. It is perhaps less well known that as recently as 1500 C.E. it was the other way around. The present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774936
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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration
Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015 - Revised
This paper studies a famous unsolved puzzle in quantitative social science. Why do some nations report such high levels of mental well-being? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich countries' happiness; Britain and the US enter further down; some nations do unexpectedly...
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Geography rules too! : Economic development and the geography of institutions
Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006
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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 development has been the focus of a vibrant research agenda in the past decade. This influential literature has attracted the attention of some scholars from other disciplines, and in...
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Slave prices, geography and insolation in 19th century African-American stature
Carson, Scott Alan (contributor) - 2007
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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation
Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009
world economy. For a given level of policy stringency, countries with more flexible environmental policies are more likely …
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The great divergence : a network approach
Lindner, Ines; Strulik, Holger - 2015
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development. …
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Heterogeneous technology diffusion and ricardian trade patterns
Kerr, William R. - 2016
Migration and trade are often linked through ethnic networks boosting bilateral trade. This study uses migration to quantify the importance of Ricardian technology differences for international trade. The framework provides the first panel estimates connecting country-industry productivity and...
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Epidemic exposure, fintech adoption, and the digital divide
Saka, Orkun; Eichengreen, Barry; Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2021
who participates in this shift. We exploit a dataset combining Gallup World Polls and Global Findex surveys for some 250 …
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