With the use of comparable data from seven West African capitals, we attempt to assess the rationale behind development …

This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation …

provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early age. We identify the effects of interest … investment of grandparents on the socio-behavioral development and the picture similarities measure of cognitive ability of …

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …

community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer in the late fourteenth century, and the early development of the … dominant Roman Catholic Church or other political rulers. Human capital had an impact on the structure of economic development …. The results are robust to a number of alternative explanations. -- economic development ; literacy ; religion ; societal …

labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in …