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Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014

path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

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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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Labor Market Power and Development

Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023

countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …

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Does Development Reduce Migration?

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

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Race v. suffrage: The determinants of development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development

Galor, Oded - 2012

Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … the development process. In early stages of industrialization, as physical capital accumulation was a prime engine of … growth, inequality enhanced the process of development by channeling resources towards individuals whose marginal propensity …

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The great happiness moderation

Clark, Andrew E.; Flèche, Sarah; Senik, Claudia - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

1950s. Finally, we turn to the determinants of a broad array of development indicators for the year 1960 and for the 1960 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325443

The Evolution of the Racial Gap in Education and the Legacy of Slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395439