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Population and Civil War
Acemoglu, Daron - 2017
Medical and public health innovations in the 1940s quickly resulted in significant health improvements around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958980
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J. - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058273
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The World Income Distribution
Acemoglu, Daron; Ventura, Jaume - 2021
trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing … perspective time-series behavior of the world economy is similar to that of existing endogenous growth models, with the world … country level, the cross-sectional behavior of the world economy is similar to that of existing exogenous growth models: cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249141
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Constitutions, Politics and Economics : A Review Essay on Persson and Tabellini'S "the Economic Effect of Constitutions"
Acemoglu, Daron - 2021
In this essay I review the new book by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which investigates the policy and economic consequences of different forms of government and electoral rules. I also take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the advantages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212917
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The World Our Grandchildren Will Inherit : The Rights Revolution and Beyond
Acemoglu, Daron - 2012
Following on Keynes's Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren, this paper develops conjectures about the world we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107770
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Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - 2013
In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution and inequality. We first explain the theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail to be realized when democracy is captured by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071520
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Institutions, Human Capital and Development
Acemoglu, Daron - 2016
In this paper we revisit the relationship between institutions, human capital and development. We argue that empirical models that treat institutions and human capital as exogenous are misspecified both because of the usual omitted variable bias problems and because of differential measurement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013006662
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Democracy Does Cause Growth
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
We provide evidence that democracy has a significant and robust positive effect on GDP. Our empirical strategy relies on a dichotomous measure of democracy coded from several sources to reduce measurement error and controls for country fixed effects and the rich dynamics of GDP, which otherwise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056591
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron - 2014
Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039764
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Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A.; … - 2021
explain diverging development paths within the former colonial world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224429