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The use of violence in illegal markets : evidence from mahogany trade in the Brazilian Amazon

Chimeli, Ariaster B.; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011

agreements and to fight for market share. This relationship plays a major role in the debate on the pernicious effects of the … illegality of drug trade. This paper explores a singular episode of transition of a market from legal to illegal to provide a … first documented experiences of increase in violence following the transition of a market from legal to illegal. -- illegal …

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Slavery, education, and inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010

slave states. -- slavery ; development ; inequality ; institutions ; education …

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The impact of body mass index on growth, schooling, productivity, and savings: a cross-country study

Tansel, Aysıt; Öztürk, Ceyhan; Erdil, Erkan - 2021

We examine the relationship between wealth and health through prominent growth indicators and cognitive ability. Cognitive ability is represented by nutritional status. The proxy variable for nutritional status is BMI. We use the reduced form equation in the cubic specification of time...

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Family structure and the education gender gap : evidence from Italian provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Unbundling the relationship between economic shocks and crime

Ferraz, Eduardo; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Vargas, Juan F. - 2021

Intuitively, by increasing the opportunity cost of engaging in criminal activities, positive economic shocks should reduce crime. However, the empirical evidence on the relationship between economic shocks and criminal behavior is at best ambiguous. This may be because certain types of shocks...

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Origins and implications of family structure across Italian provinces in historical perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016

In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...

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Who are the microenterprise owners? : evidence from Sri Lanka on Tokman v. de Soto

De Mel, Suresh (contributor); McKenzie, David J. (contributor) - 2008

Is the vast army of the self-employed in low income countries a source of employment generation? We use data from surveys in Sri Lanka to compare the characteristics of own account workers (non-employers) with wage workers and with owners of larger firms. We use a rich set of measures of...

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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil

Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009

This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro … public goods and lower income per capita. -- Institutions ; colonial heritage ; rent-seeking ; geography ; Brazil …

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Does it pay firms to register for taxes? : The impact of formality on firm profitability

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

This paper estimates the impact of registering for taxes on firm profits in Bolivia, the country with the highest levels of informality in Latin America. A new survey of micro and small firms enables us to control for a rich set of measures of owner ability and business motivations that can...

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Labor mobility across the formal/informal divide in Turkey : evidence from individual level data

Tansel, Aysıt; Öznur Kan, Elif - 2012

, heterogeneous and multifaceted informal labor market. However, the existing evidence on labor informality in Turkey is mixed and … distinct labor market states and identifying the effects of certain individual and job characteristics on variant mobility … market states of formal-salaried, informal-salaried, formal self-employed, informal self-employed, unemployed and inactive …

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