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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?

Dreher, Axel - 2010

World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …

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Energy Poverty and Entrepreneurship

Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Wang, Haining - 2021

We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that negative personal circumstances can foster self-reliance,...

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What Remains after the Oil Boom is Over?

Jelnov, Pavel - 2019

This paper links between Beckerian literature that shows that marriage is a normal good with respect to male income and the literature that explores cultural changes as a result of exogenous events. I use the oil crisis of the 1970s as a positive shock on some males. The analyzed outcome is...

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Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures : Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Nie, Peng; Li, Qiaoge - 2022

Using the 2012-2018 waves of the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), we investigate the impact of energy poverty (EP) on health care expenditures among Chinese adults aged 18+. Employing a methodology combining a random effects two-part model and instrumental variable estimations, we show that EP...

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Who Benefits from Local Oil and Gas Employment? Labor Market Composition in the Oil and Gas Industry in Texas

Cai, Zhengyu - 2019

This paper examines local labor market outcomes from an oil and gas boom in Texas. We examine two main outcomes across gender, race, and ethnicity: the probability of employment in the oil and gas industry and the log wages of workers employed outside the oil and gas industry. We find that men...

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An Empirical Growth Model for Major Oil Exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2012

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focuses on...

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Oil Exports and the Iranian Economy

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi - 2009

the world. We also find that the Iranian economy adjusts quite quickly to the shocks in foreign output and oil exports …

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The Impact of Oil Revenues on the Iranian Economy and the Gulf States

Dreger, Christian - 2014

In line with the neoclassical growth model a persistent stream of oil revenues might have a long lasting impact on GDP per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) using...

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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?

Haouas, Ilham - 2014

Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

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Democratization and civil liberties : the role of violence during the transition

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper investigates the role of violent civil conflicts during the process of democratization for the quality of emerging democracies, and in particular, the protection of civil (political and economic) liberties. A simple theory in which different groups may engage in violent conflict in...

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