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Patience and comparative development
Sunde, Uwe; Dohmen, Thomas; Enke, Benjamin; Falk, Armin; … - 2021
This paper studies the relationship between patience and comparative development through a combination of reduced-form analyses and model estimations. Based on a globally representative dataset on time preference in 76 countries, we document two sets of stylized facts. First, patience is...
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Growth impacts of the exchange rate and technology
Márquez-Velázquez, Alejandro - 2016
suggest that developing countries grow faster when they are globally competitive in low-technology manufacturing and natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536945
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Social mobility and economic development
Neidhöfer, Guido; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; … - 2021
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 procedure that considers the participation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671883
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Demographics and the decline in firm entry : lessons from a life-cycle model
Röhe, Oke; Stähler, Nikolai - 2020
Since the mid-1970s, firm entry rates in the United States have declined significantly. This also holds for other OECD countries over the past years. At the same time, these economies experienced a gradual process of population aging. Applying a tractable life-cycle model with endogenous firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180750
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Markets for technology in Europe : mapping demand and its drivers
Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang; Schulz, Philipp; … - 2019
Functioning markets for technology are an important determinant for the type, scope and distribution of innovation … activities in an economy. However, markets for technology are often underdeveloped or inefficient. Existing theory attributes … structural forces that shape the demand side of markets for technology. In this study, we reason that demand depends on the …
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Firm formation and regional spillovers : evidence from Germany
Harhoff, Dietmar - 1995
consistent with the existence of localization and urbanization effects. The emergence of high technology firms seems to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621492
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A note on automation, stagnation, and the implications of a robot tax
Gasteiger, Emanuel; Prettner, Klaus - 2017
We analyze the long-run growth effects of automation in the canonical overlapping generations framework. While automation implies constant returns to capital within this model class (even in the absence of technological progress), we show that it does not have the potential to lead to positive...
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Ancestry, Diversity & Finance : Evidence from Transition Economies
Dombi, Akos; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2017
In this paper, we analyze the growth effects of historical and biological ancestry, diversity and financial development in transition economies. We show that the common indicators of ethnolinguistic fractionalization, state history and genetic distance yield significant results and to some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596107
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Global universal basic skills : current deficits and implications for world development
Gust, Sarah; Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
How far is the world away from ensuring that every child obtains the basic skills needed to be internationally competitive? And what would accomplishing this mean for world development? Based on the micro data of international and regional achievement tests, we map achievement onto a common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477384
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A rural health supplement to the hookworm intervention in the American South
Fox, Jonathan; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2018
This project re-investigates the hookworm eradication efforts of the Rockefeller Foundation's Sanitary Commission (RSC) in the American South during the Progressive Era. The RSC worked to eradicate hookworm across 11 southern states between 1911 and 1915, efforts that have been linked to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011811921