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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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learning model with the theory of rational inattention introduced by Sims (2006). In the model firms optimally allocate …
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entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between … entrepreneurship and development; and (iii) fresh insights for entrepreneurship policy for development that emerges from recent …
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entrepreneurial elite, resulting in economic policy and institutions which are more conducive to entrepreneurship and productivity …
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Estimates of the number of people living in extreme poverty, as reported by the World Bank, figure prominently in … international development dialogue and policy. An assumption underpinning these poverty counts is that there are no economies of … global estimates of extreme poverty to changing this assumption. The analysis rests on nationally representative household …
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poverty but also by considering time poverty within the framework of a new interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty … of 1991/92 and 2001/2 of the Federal Statistics Office provide the data to quantify the multidimensional poverty in all … the IMD poverty regimes. Important result: self-employed with regard to single income poverty, single time poverty and …
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an individual’s probability of becoming an entrepreneur. Consistent with the theory of underdog entrepreneurship that …We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … entrepreneurship, we find that spending a higher share of household income on energy consumption or being energy poor increases the …
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strengthens after assistance is withdrawn, leads to a 38% increase in earnings. Inculcating basic entrepreneurship, where severely …
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We model an infinitely repeated Tullock contest, over the sharing of some given resource, between two ethnic groups. The resource is allocated by a composite state institution according to relative ethnic control; hence the ethnic groups contest the extent of institutional ethnic bias. The...
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We model simultaneous inter and within identity-group conflict in two territories connected by cross-territorial spill-overs. Within each territory, two groups contest the division of a group-specific public good, and all members contest the division of group income. Each group has a...
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