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A brief introduction to human capital measures

Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2020

the World Bank (Lange et al., 2018) and by the United Nations Environmental Program and the Urban Institute of Kyushu … the University of Washington (Lim et al., 2018), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2019), the World Bank … (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, 2018), and the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum …

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Do natural disasters affect human capital? : an assessment based on existing empirical evidence

Baez, Javier; Fuente, Alejandro de la; Santos, Indhira - 2010

The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...

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The economics and politics of women's rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele; Voena, Alessandra - 2011

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...

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The demographic transition : causes and consequences

Galor, Oded - 2012

This paper develops the theoretical foundations and the testable implications of the various mechanisms that have been proposed as possible triggers for the demographic transition. Moreover, it examines the empirical validity of each of the theories and their significance for the understanding...

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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013

We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...

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Does education matter for economic growth?

Delgado, Michael S.; Henderson, Daniel J.; Parmeter, … - 2012

Empirical growth regressions typically include mean years of schooling as a proxy for human capital. However, empirical research often finds that the sign and significance of schooling depends on the sample of observations or the specification of the model. We use a nonparametric local-linear...

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Financial crises and liberalization : progress or reversals?

Saka, Orkun; Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei; … - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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Policies in hard times : assessing the impact of financial crises on structural reforms

Gokmen, Gunes; Nannicini, Tommaso; Onorato, … - 2020

It is commonly argued that crises open up a window of opportunity to implement policies that otherwise would not have the necessary political backing. The argument goes that the political cost of deep reforms declines as crises unravel structural problems that need to be urgently rectified and...

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Cross sections are history

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2013

and a unique rate of diffusion throughout the world. Suppose too that initially all countries are fairly closely bunched … follower countries in the various parts of the world fall in line in a similar geographic order. The result will be …

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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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