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We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’ birthplaces across 41 African countries, we explore the educational attainment of adults...
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economic growth and public education is evaluated: both have a positive, significant, and substantial effect on …
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We explore the role of social mobility as a driver of economic development. First, we map the geography of … intergenerational mobility of education for 52 Latin American regions, as well as its evolution over time. Then, through a new weighting … that increasing social mobility had a significant and robust effect on the development of Latin American regions. …
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We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
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This paper analyzes the determinants, work-time and income effects of continuous vocational training in West-Germany on the basis of a 70% sample of the German Microcensus 1991 - a representative 1% cross-section sampIe of all German households. Several hypotheses about the influence of...
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