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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015
of these programs. This article considers one such program, the Zambian Food Reserve Agency (FRA), which purchases maize … from smallholder farmers at a pan-territorial price that typically exceeds maize market prices in surplus production areas … effects of the FRA's maize marketing activities on smallholder farm household welfare. Results suggest that FRA activities …
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Services offshoring and wages : evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual level data combined with industry information on offshoring. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low and medium skilled individuals negatively. By contrast, skilled workers benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737638
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Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial virginia
Nikolova, Elena; Nikolova, Milena - 2016
We study Virginia's suffrage from the early 17th century until the American Revolution using an analytical narrative and econometric analysis of unique data on franchise restrictions. First, we hold that suffrage changes reflected labour market dynamics. Indeed, Virginia’s liberal institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543173
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The age of mass migration : economic and institutional determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella (contributor);  … - 2006
We study the determinants of 19th century mass migration with special attention to the role of institutional factors beside standard economic fundamentals. We find that economic forces associated with income and demographic differentials had a major role in the determination of this historical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003522695
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Growth, history, or institutions? : what explains state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - 2010
We explore the determinants of state fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. Controlling for a wide range of economic, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and the number of revolutions, are the main determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942306
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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009
Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925496
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Growth, colonization, and institutional development : in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310834
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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 induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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Income, democracy, and critical junctures
Cervellati, Matteo; Jung, Florian; Sunde, Uwe; Vischer, … - 2012
Acemoglu, Johnson, Robinson, and Yared (2008) document that the cross-country correlation between income per capita and democracy disappears once including country fixed effects. This paper tests the hypothesis that the effect of income on democracy might differ systematically across countries....
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Enfranchisement, political participation and political competition: evidence from colonial India
Cassan, Guilhem; Lakshmi Iyer; Ali Mirza, Rinchan - 2020
We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the franchise in 20th-century India. Creating a new dataset of district level political outcomes between 1921 and 1957, we find that the partial franchise extension of 1935 resulted in...
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