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Measuring persistence of the world population : a fractional integration approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023
world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013550205
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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023
-quarter has been realized. Estimated welfare gains from relaxing existing height constraints are 5.9% in the developed world and 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433980
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Economic analysis and forecasting in the global economy and in emerging and developing regions including Africa : how informative is the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES)?
Garnitz, Johanna; Leibfritz, Willi - 2016
Economists around the world rely in addition to official statistics on business (and consumer) surveys, which are more … partly, be filled by the Ifo World Economic Survey (WES). In this paper we first describe this survey and also examine how …-to-date information about the cyclical stage of the global economy and of major emerging and developing regions including Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547810
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956347
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Cultural distance and ethnic civil conflict
Guarnieri, Eleonora - 2023
Ethnically diverse countries are more prone to conflict, but why do some groups engage in conflict while others do not? I show that civil conflict is explained by ethnic groups' cultural distance to the central government: an increase in cultural distance, proxied by linguistic distance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014332085
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735924
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Investment rules and time invariance under population growth
Asheim, Geir B.; Hartwick, John M.; Mitra, Tapan - 2020
We propose an adaptation of Hartwick's investment rule to models with population growth and show that following Hartwick's rule is equivalent to a time-invariant real per capita net national product. In the so-called DHSS model of capital accumulation and resource depletion the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263331
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Biological differences between late 19th and early 20th century urban and rural residence
Carson, Scott Alan - 2020
Communities urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural areas. Body mass, height, and weight are biological welfare measures that reflect the net difference between calories consumed and calories required for work and to withstand the physical environment. Across the United...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263846
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Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
Dietz, Simon; Lanz, Bruno - 2019 - This version: November 2019
sector, endogenous fertility, directed technical change and fossil/renewable energy. We estimate the world economy is more … than one trillion dollars smaller, and world population more than 80 million smaller, than would have been the case without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138747
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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions : evidence from developing countries
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada (contributor) - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the presence of heterogeneity in the sample of countries and testing for the stability of the estimated elasticities over time. The sample covers the period from 1975 through 2003 for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003749471