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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Jakiela, Pamela - 2016
We estimate the impact of Kenya's post-election crisis on individual risk preferences. The crisis interrupted a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993951
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pages, Carmen - 2021
This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324839
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The Transmission of Democracy : From the Village to the Nation-State
Giuliano, Paola - 2013
We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the … national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor … democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087428
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Diasporas and Conflict
Mariani, Fabio - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981492
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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
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The 'Out of Africa' Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2012
This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a significant effect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110850
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W. - 2011
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132818
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Innovative Firms or Innovative Owners? Determinants of Innovation in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
de Mel, Suresh - 2015
Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across and within countries. Despite the central role of the entrepreneur in the innovation process, data limitations have restricted standard analysis of the determinants of innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749897
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The Impact of Violence During the Mexican Revolution on Migration to the United States
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Kosack, Edward; Ward, Zachary - 2023
The number of individuals forcibly displaced by conflicts has been rising in the past few decades. However, we know little about the dynamics - magnitude, timing, and persistence - of conflict-induced migration in the short run. We use novel high-frequency data to estimate the dynamic migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014345567
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Analyzing the Perceptions of Egyptian Youth About the Arab Spring
Fakih, Ali - 2019
Egyptian youth played a central role in the Arab Spring (AS) uprisings, yearning for changes in the political system and for better economic conditions. This paper investigates the perceptions of young Egyptians about the AS. The empirical analysis uses a bivariate ordered probit model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862470