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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017
This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the … data on engineering and patenting for the US during the Second Industrial Revolution. These are robustly correlated with … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …
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Climatic roots of loss aversion
Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018
This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800629
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Natural disasters and regional development : the case of earthquakes
Fabian, Marius; Lessmann, Christian; Sofke, Tim - 2019
argue that existing studies on the impact of natural disasters on economic development have several important limitations …, both at the level of the outcome variable - usually national income or growth - as well as on the level of the independent … entire world for the period 1992-2013 we find that earthquakes reduce both light growth rates and light levels significantly …
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The globalisation-welfare state nexus : evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927944
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Regime spoiler or regime pawn : the military and distributional conflict in non-democracies
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2014
I consider a model in which an autocrat can be removed from power either through a military coup or a revolution by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347032
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The effect of corruption on internal conflict in Iran using newspaper coverage
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Zamani, Reza - 2022
economic growth and military spending. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803751
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Between hope and despair : Egypt's revolution and migration intentions
Giesing, Yvonne; Hassan, Reem - 2021
We study the effect of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and its aftermath on migration intentions of the Egyptian youth. We … measure revolution intensity using the spacial variation in the number of deaths during the revolution from the Statistical … Database of the Egyptian Revolution Wikithawra and combine it with data on migration intentions from the Harmonized Survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012602185
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Years of life lost to revolution and war in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic … (‘OPEC’) countries. The synthetic Iran matches the average level of key pre-revolution life expectancy correlates and the … evolution of the factual Iranian life expectancy during the post-revolution period through the end of the war. I find a sizable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510202
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The effect of Islamic revolution and war on income inequality in Iran
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Kadivar, Mohammad Ali - 2021
standalone effects. In this study, we focus on the case of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the subsequent Iran-Iraq war from … 1980 to 1988. We use the synthetic control method to study the effect of revolution and war on changes in income inequality … levels. Had there been no revolution and war in Iran, how would income inequality have developed? Utilizing the synthetic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669743
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Satisfaction with amenities and taste for revolt in the Middle East
Fereidouni, Hassan Gholipour; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals' satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295085