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The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
Can part of Africa's current underdevelopment be explained by its slave trades? To explore this question, I use data … exported from each country during Africa's slave trades. I find a robust negative relationship between the number of slaves …
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Aids, "Reversal" of the Demographic Transition and Economic Development : Evidence from Africa
Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2021
Using country- and region-level data, I investigate the effect of HIV/AIDS on fertility in Africa during 1985 …
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Population and Regulation
Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021
We present a model of efficient regulation along the lines of Demsetz (1967). In this model, setting up and running regulatory institutions takes a fixed cost, and therefore jurisdictions with larger populations affected by a given regulation are more likely to have them. Consistent with the...
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The Role of Immigration in Dealing with the Developed World'S Demographic Transition
Fehr, Hans; Jokisch, Sabine; Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2021
This paper and its companion study, Fehr, Jokisch, and Kotlikoff (2004), develop a three-region dynamic general equilibrium life-cycle model to analyze general and skill-specific immigration policy during the demographic transition. The three regions are the U.S., Japan, and the EU. Immigration...
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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect
Temin, Peter - 2021
I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both subfields study economic development; the difference is that economic history focuses on high-wage countries while economic development focuses on low-wage economies. My argument is based on recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311911
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HIV and Fertility in Africa : First Evidence from Population Based Surveys
Juhn, Chinhui - 2008
The historical pattern of the demographic transition suggests that fertility declines follow mortality declines, followed by a rise in human capital accumulation and economic growth. The HIV/AIDS epidemic threatens to reverse this path. A recent paper by Young (2005), however, suggests that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770667
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Africa's Prospects for Enjoying a Demographic Dividend
Bloom, David E. - 2016
We assess Africa's prospects for enjoying a demographic dividend. While fertility rates and dependency ratios in Africa … Northern America. This projection suggests Africa has considerable potential to enjoy a demographic dividend. Whether and when … these areas, coordinated policies will likely be most effective in generating the momentum needed to pull Africa's economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984130
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Disease Control, Demographic Change and Institutional Development in Africa
McMillan, Margaret - 2013
This paper addresses the role of tropical disease in rural demography and land use rights, using data from Onchocerciasis (river blindness) control in Burkina Faso. We combine a new survey of village elders with historical census data for 1975-2006 and geocoded maps of treatment under the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078849
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Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
-specific pre-colonial institutions in shaping comparative regional development in Africa. We utilize information on the spatial …
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Malaria and Early African Development : Evidence from the Sickle Cell Trait
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio - 2013
We examine the effect of malaria on economic development in Africa over the very long run. Using data on the prevalence … of the mutation that causes sickle cell disease we measure the impact of malaria on mortality in Africa prior to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073554