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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...

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Unofficial development assistance : a dynamic model of charities' donation income

Arulampalam, Wiji; Backus, Peter; Micklewright, John - 2011

small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more … development funding. -- charitable giving ; overseas development …

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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015

Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017

We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups using a new database covering 66 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2015. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has declined, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient...

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Climatic roots of loss aversion

Galor, Oded; Savitskiy, Viacheslav - 2018

This research explores the origins of loss aversion and the variation in its prevalence across regions, nations and ethnic group. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the evolution of loss aversion in the course of human history can be traced to the adaptation of...

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Returns to education and female participation nexus : evidence from India

Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible for low female work participation. The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) Employment Unemployment Survey (EUS) unit level data of India for the year 2011-12 is used to...

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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its … relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning …

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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations

Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012

This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on … American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the … parliamentary systems (versus presidential) have a strong positive effect on economic development, while ordinary least squares …

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The long-term determinants of female HIV infection in Africa : the slave trade, polygyny, and sexual behavior

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2015

We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women, with a focus on family structure and sexual behavior as shaped by the demographic shock following the transatlantic slave trade. First we show that, in clusters where polygyny...

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Disease environment and civil conflicts

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe; Valmori, Simona - 2011

also suggest the potential relevance of a channel linking geography to economic development that has not been investigated …

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Political institutions and the development of telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta (contributor); … - 2007

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …

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