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Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre; Shleifer, Andrei - 2011

We use several data sets to consider the effect of teaching practices on student beliefs, as well as on organization of firms and institutions. In cross-country data, we show that teaching practices (such as copying from the board versus working on projects together) are strongly related to...

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Migration, Entrepreneurship and Development: A Critical Review

Naudé, Wim; Siegel, Melissa; Marchand, Katrin - 2015

We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

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Entrepreneurship and the Reallocation of African Farmers

Naudé, Wim - 2015

African agriculture's importance for sustainable development is well appreciated. Indeed, recent years have seen a … physical resources across occupations and space, and without which agriculture and industrial development, and hence structural … development policies and further research are outlined. …

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The Decision to Become an Entrepreneur and the Firm Size Distribution: A Unifying Framework for Policy Analysis

Poschke, Markus - 2013

Developing and emerging economies have high entrepreneurship rates and relatively many small firms. There is enormous heterogeneity among these firms and entrepreneurs. This paper presents a simple occupational choice model that captures motives for entrepreneurship at both edges of the size...

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Public-Private Entanglement: Entrepreneurship in a Hybrid Political Order, the Case of Lebanon

Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013

The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...

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Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016

In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...

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Brilliant Technologies and Brave Entrepreneurs: A New Narrative for African Manufacturing

Naudé, Wim - 2018

In this paper I argue that the manufacturing sector still has an important role to play in Africa's development …

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Culture, institutions and the wealth of nations

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Roland, Gerard - 2010

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...

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Risk, institutions and growth: Why England and not China?

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - 2011

We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual-level risk-taking in pursuing productivity-enhancing activities including using and developing new knowledge. Individual-level, idiosyncratic risk implies that distinct...

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Slavery, education, and inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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