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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 …
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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. …
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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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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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 …
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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 …
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We investigate the effect of extreme temperatures on mortality and emergency hospital admissions, and whether local social care allows to mitigate their adverse effects. We merge monthly administrative data on mortality and hospital discharge from Italian municipalities for the period 2001-2015...
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Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
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We build a model of conflict in which two groups contest a resource and must decide on the optimal allocation of labor between fighting and productive activities. In this setting, a diaspora emanating from one of the two groups can get actively involved in the conflict by transferring financial...
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condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments … associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The second, the Demographic Revolution, began in the latter half of the 19th … century and is largely the result of progress in the life sciences. The third is a Happiness Revolution that commenced in the …
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