documented by Monte Carlo experiments. An empirical application to modelling of real GDP growth and investment-output ratios … dominant effects are found. The results also suggest that increase in investment as a share of GDP predict higher growth rate …

seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate … in violence, self-harm, and suicides following the law. Collectively, the findings suggest unwarranted responses to …

Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic …

conflict-affected countries. This module will enable researchers to address specific violence-related issues comparatively … survey designs in conflict-affected areas. We review existing conflict- and violence-related questionnaires, with a special … focus on World Bank's Living Standard Measurement Surveys (LSMS), and propose suggestions on how to improve questionnaires …

people. These restrictions have negative economic consequences, possibly increasing the supply of political violence. To test … employment is more concentrated in these sectors, and (iii) episodes of political violence are more likely to occur in these …

partner violence (IPV). Based on a global sample of individual survey data and historical geo-referenced records of natural …

required in the world economy. In this paper, I provide an empirical characterization of the composition of GDP levels and … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India … and Vietnam. To examine the global implications of domestic growth patterns in Asia, I analyze saving-investment balances …

role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …