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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
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Distribution of Natural Resources, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development : Growth Dynamics with Two Elites
Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2021
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318254
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The Effect of Adversity on Process Innovations and Managerial Incentives
Dostie, Benoit - 2009
incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158121
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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac - 2016
Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last four decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001874
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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada
Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324786
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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries
Nhabinde, S. - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
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Intergenerational Persistence in Health in Developing Countries : The Penalty of Gender Inequality?
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010
This paper is motivated to investigate the often neglected payoff to investments in the health of girls and women in terms of next generation outcomes. This paper investigates the intergenerational persistence of health across time and region as well as across the distribution of maternal...
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The Value of Redistribution : Natural Resources and the Formation of Human Capital Under Weak Institutions
Agüero, Jorge - 2017
We exploit time and spatial variation generated by the commodities boom to measure the effect of natural resources on human capital formation in Peru, a country with low governance indicators. Combining test scores from over two million students and district-level administrative data on mining...
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On the Relevance and Composition of Gifts within the Firm : Evidence from Field Experiments
Shearer, Bruce - 2009
We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...
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The Roots of Inequality : Estimating Inequality of Opportunity from Regression Trees and Forests
Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel - 2021
In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods—conditional inference regression trees and forests—represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...
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