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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...

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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...

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Long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864 – 1870) : from male scarcity to intimate partner violence

Boggiano, Barbara - 2020

This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence. The identification of these causal effects relies on a novel historical dataset from which I exploit the distance from municipalities to military camps during the war. Over 130 years...

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Malthus was right : explaining a millennium of stagnation

Madsen, Jakob Brøchner; Robertson, Peter E.; Ye, Longfeng - 2019

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Farms versus firms in economic development : the assumptions and consequences of learning dynamics in agriculture and mnufacturing

Srinivas, Smita; Vieira Filho, José Eustáquio Ribeiro - 2015

-recognizes learning and innovation in agriculture and its crossover supplier segments with manufacturing. The sections analyze …. It then analyzes the learning implications of two theories - unlimited labor and induced innovation - on economic … models that connect learning and innovation to growth require closer attention and have important developmental consequences …

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Innovation in Malmö after the Öresund Bridge

Ejermo, Olof; Hussinger, Katrin; Kalash, Basheer; … - 2021

We analyze the effect of the Öresund Bridge, a combined railway and motorway bridge between Swedish Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, on inventive activity in the region of Malmö. Applying difference-in-difference estimation on individual-level data, our findings suggest that the...

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A structuralist perspective on the role of technology in economic growth and development

Justman, Moshe; Teubal, Morris - 1989

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Volatility and development

Koren, Miklós (contributor); Tenreyro, Silvana (contributor) - 2005

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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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Linkages and economic development : the case of Brazil reconsidered

Clements, Benedict J.; Rossi, José W. - 2015

This paper provides mathematically consistent calculations of the forward, backward, and total linkages in the Brazilian economy in 1975. Our results reveal, among other things, that: 1) high linkages cannot be exclusively associated with modern industrial sectors; 2) none of our linkage...

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