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Geography vs. institutions at the village level

Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. These debates have usually been based on cross-country regressions where questions about parameter heterogeneity, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity cannot...

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Agricultural extension and technology adoption for food security : evidence from Uganda

Pan, Yao; Smith, Stephen C.; Sulaiman, Munshi - 2015

This paper evaluates causal impacts of a large-scale agricultural extension program for smallholder women farmers on food security in Uganda through a regression discontinuity design that exploits an arbitrary distance-to-branch threshold for village program eligibility. We find eligible farmers...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

; geographical isolation ; economic development ; agriculture ; industrialization …

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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria

Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014

from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …

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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country

Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023

I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...

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Preferences, financial literacy, and economic development

Davoli, Maddalena; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021

Using data from 74 countries, we uncover important differences in the association between financial literacy and preferences by the level of economic development. We find that patience is only salient in wealthier countries, i.e. countries with their GDP per capita above the sample median. In...

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Migration from developing countries: selection, income elasticity, and Simpson's paradox

Clemens, Michael A.; Mendola, Mariapia - 2020

How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from the countries they leave? The answers depend on whether people who migrate have higher or lower productivity than people who do not migrate. Theory on this subject has long...

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The political U : new evidence on democracy and income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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Brain drain in globalization : a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective

Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Where has all the money gone? : Foreign aid and the quest for growth

Chatterjee, Santanu (contributor); … - 2007

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the "missing link" between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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