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Arunachalam, Raj - 2010

This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...

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Missing Unmarried Women

Anderson, Siwan - 2015

women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …

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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective

Diao, Xinshen - 2017

Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change – the reallocation of labor from low- to...

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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia

Krishna, Pravin - 2010

This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...

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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia

Vogl, Tom - 2012

Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...

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The Emergence of Weak, Despotic and Inclusive States

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

) and civil society (representing non-elite citizens), where both players can invest to increase their power. The model …

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 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...

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The Injustice of Inequality

Glaeser, Edward L.; Scheinkman, José Alexandre; … - 2021

In many countries, the operation of legal, political and regulatory institutions is subverted by the wealthy and the politically powerful for their own benefit. This subversion takes the form of corruption, intimidation, and other forms of influence. We present a model of such institutional...

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New Tools for the Analysis of Political Power in Africa

Rainer, Ilia - 2012

The study of autocracies and weakly institutionalized countries is plagued by scarcity of information about the relative strength of different players within the political system. This paper presents novel data on the composition of government coalitions in a sample of fifteen post-colonial...

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How is Power Shared in Africa?

Francois, Patrick - 2012

This paper presents new evidence on the power sharing layout of national political elites in a panel of African … monolithically controlling power, we show that African ruling coalitions are large and that political power is allocated …

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