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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011912825
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Entrepreneurship and the reallocation of African farmers
Naudé, Wim - 2015
African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … development policies and further research are outlined. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388301
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The impact of violence during the Mexican Revolution on migration to the United States
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - 2023
high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration response to conflict for the case of the Mexican Revolution (1910 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325870
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Did the Arab Spring reduce MENA countries' growth?
Araissi, Mahmoud; Fakih, Ali; Haimoun, Nathir - 2019
estimation, the paper estimates a growth model using the difference in the log of GDPC between periods t and t+1. Buttressed by … sufficient empirical evidence, the paper's findings corroborate that the Arab Spring had been negatively associated with growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011980078
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Business in genocide : understanding and avoiding complicity
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2016
Genocides and mass atrocities do not arise spontaneously, but tend to be meticulously sourced and managed. As such the concern in this paper is with the role of businesses in these processes, with a particular focus on the agency and decision making of entrepreneurs and managers. We critically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452640
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The intersection of the fields of entrepreneurship and development economics : a review towards a new view
Hessels, Jolanda; Naudé, Wim - 2017
Policy makers find it difficult to promote economic development through entrepreneurship and SMEs. In this paper we … development. The scholarly fields that have been interested in this, entrepreneurship economics and development economics, have … associated with entrepreneurship in development, and by proposing a new synthesis definition of entrepreneurship. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743542
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Does development reduce migration?
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … destinations, and +0.74 to rich destinations. This relationship between emigration flows and economic growth is highly robust to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269072
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Monetary policy, growth and employment in developing areas : a review of the literature
Junankar, Pramod N. - 2019
In this paper we review the literature on the impact that monetary policy has on growth and employment in developing … sometimes on output (GDP) levels and volatility of output. This survey of the literature on Monetary policy and growth shows … that money plays a small role in developing countries and that monetary policy is not a very important influence on growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011988624