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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530812
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Selection and absolute advantage in farming and entrepreneurship
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Amodio, Francesco; … - 2019
Output per worker is lower in poor countries than in rich countries, and relatively more so in the agricultural sector. Sorting of heterogeneous workers can contribute to explain this fact if comparative and absolute advantage are aligned in agriculture, implying that average productivity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153418
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Allocation of female talent and cross-country productivity differences
Lee, Munseob - 2023
The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general equilibrium Roy model with gender-specific frictions. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014394245
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Production risk, energy use efficiency and productivity of Korean industries
Khayyat, Nabaz T.; Heshmati, Almas - 2014
Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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Coal, smoke, and death : bituminous coal and American home heating
Barreca, Alan I.; Clay, Karen; Tarr, Joel A. - 2014
due to the burning of bituminous coal for heat. We estimate the effects of this bituminous coal consumption on mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250025
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Heat, humidity, and infant mortality in the developing world
Geruso, Michael; Spears, Dean - 2018
We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...
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Temperature and fertility : evidence from Spanish register data
Conte Keivabu, Risto; Cozzani, Marco; Wilde, Joshua - 2023
other countries. Moreover, we show that locations with a colder climate are more vulnerable to the impact of heat. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014276698
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Determinants of heat risk in an aging population : a machine learning approach
Klauber, Hannah; Koch, Nikolas - 2023
This paper identifies individual and regional risk factors for hospitalizations caused by heat within the German … causally estimate heterogeneous heat effects and explore the geographic, morbidity, and socioeconomic correlates of heat …-age poverty and less nursing care. We project that unabated climate change might bring heat to areas with particularly vulnerable …
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Life expectancy and economic growth : the role of the demographic transition
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2009
In this paper we investigate the causal effect of life expectancy on economic growth by explicitly accounting for the role of the demographic transition. In addition to focusing on issues of empirical identification, this paper emphasizes the role of the econometric specification. We present a...
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Aggregation without the aggravation? : nonparametric analysis of the representative consumer
Cherchye, Laurens; Crawford, Ian; Rock, Bram de; … - 2011
In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily...
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