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A Demographic Dividend for Sub-Saharan Africa : Source, Magnitude, and Realization

Bloom, David E. - 2014

Managing rapid population growth and spurring economic growth are among the most pressing policy challenges for Sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss the links between them and investigate the potential of family planning programs to address these challenges. Specifically, we estimate the impact of...

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Revisiting Cross-Country Poverty Convergence in the Developing World with a Special Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

Ouyang, Yusi - 2018

The literature on poverty convergence is sparse and much of the empirical evidence relies on Ravallion (2012) who found a lack of poverty convergence across some ninety Less Developed Countries (LDCs) during 1977-2007. This paper revisits cross-country poverty convergence using data from the...

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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Conflict on Education : A Spatial Analysis in Sub-Saharan Africa

Unfried, Kerstin - 2020

In this paper, we identify under which conditions and to what extent armed conflicts harm the long-run educational attainment of children in rural Sub-Saharan Africa. By combining 66 rounds of DHS surveys with geo-coded conflict information, our study contextualizes the findings of a series of...

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The Fertility Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa : The Role of Structural Change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition. We create a unique panel data set combining...

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investments and Productivity:Are Services Firms Different?

Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign directinvestment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … thatthe productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms frommanufacturing industries – where the … firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi whilethe least productive firms serve the home market only and the …

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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level : New Measures Based on Global Value Chains

Marczak, Martyna - 2018

We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...

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When Work Disappears : Manufacturing Decline and the Falling Marriage-Market Value of Young Men

Autor, David H. - 2018

We exploit the gender-specific components of large-scale labor demand shocks stemming from rising international manufacturing competition to test how shifts in the relative economic stature of young men versus young women affected marriage, fertility and children's living circumstances during...

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness : Evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2010

According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant location. Specifically, environmental stringency should decrease exports and increase imports of "dirty" goods. This paper estimates a gravity model to establish whether the...

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