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Teacher shortages, teacher contracts and their impact on education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean (contributor); Frölich, Markus (contributor);  … - 2007
the quantile treatment effects for Niger, Togo and Mali, based on very informative data, comparable across these countries …, somewhat mixed in Togo (with positive effects in 2nd and negative effects in 5th grade) and negative in Niger. This ordering is … contract teacher programme in the three countries. In Mali and, to some extent, in Togo, the contract teacher system works more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599698
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925496
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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Women legislators and economic performance
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Min, Brian; … - 2018
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this using data on competitive elections to India's state assemblies, leveraging close elections to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872787
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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-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872707
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The age of mass migration : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated with income and demographic differentials had a major role in the determination of this historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522695
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Growth, history, or institutions? : what explains state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942306
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia
Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....
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