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The Influence of Ancestral Lifeways on Individual Economic Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa

Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2016

Does a person's historical lineage influence his or her current economic status? Motivated by a large literature in social sciences stressing the effect of an early transition to agriculture on current economic performance at the level of countries, we examine the relative contemporary status of...

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Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics : On the Roles of Risk and Ability

Santos, Paulo - 2016

This paper studies the causal mechanisms behind persistent poverty. Using original data on Boran pastoralists of southern Ethiopia, we find that heterogeneous and nonlinear wealth dynamics arise purely in adverse states of nature. In favorable states, expected herd grow is quasi-linear and...

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Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa

McGuirk, Eoin; Nunn, Nathan - 2022

We consider the effects of climate change on seasonally migrant populations that herd livestock – i.e., transhumant pastoralists – in Africa. Traditionally, transhumant pastoralists benefit from a cooperative relationship with sedentary agriculturalists whereby arable land is used for crop...

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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Adjustment in Botswana

McMillan, Margaret - 2019

We study the effects of domestic trade liberalization on labor markets in Botswana. South Africa is the dominant member … plausibly exogenous tariff reductions for the other customs union members, including Botswana. Using labor force surveys from … Botswana spanning a decade, we find that trade liberalization did not affect the relative size of industries in terms of …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

McMillan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes seven developing countries—Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, India, Vietnam and Brazil —all …

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Stuck in the Middle? Structural Change and Productivity Growth in Botswana

McCaig, Brian - 2015

This paper decomposes Botswana's growth from the late 1960s through 2010 into a within-sector and a between …-sector (structural change) component. We find that during the 70s and 80s Botswana's rapid economic growth was characterized by … that this is one of the reasons for persistent poverty and very high income inequality in Botswana today. This leaves us …

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When Knowledge is Not Enough : Hiv/Aids Information and Risky Behavior in Botswana

Dinkelman, Taryn - 2006

increase vulnerability to infection? We use data from two recent household surveys in Botswana to address this question. We …

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Moving Out of Agriculture : Structural Change in Vietnam

McCaig, Brian - 2013

We examine the role of structural change in the economic development of Vietnam from 1990 to 2008. Structural change accounted for a third of the growth in aggregate labor productivity during this period, which averaged 5.1 percent per annum. We discuss the role of reforms in agriculture,...

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Property Rights to Land and Agricultural Organization : An Argentina-United States Comparison

Edwards, Eric; Fiszbein, Martin; Libecap, Gary - 2022

The contributions of Harold Demsetz offer key insights on how property rights and transaction costs shape economic organization. This guides our comparison of agricultural organization in two comparable regions, the Argentine Pampas and the US Midwest. In the US, land was distributed in small...

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The Depressing Effect of Agricultural Institutions on the Prewar Japanese Economy

Hayashi, Fumio; Prescott, Edward C. - 2021

The question we address in this paper is why the Japanese miracle didn't take place until after World War II. For much of the pre-WWII period, Japan's real GNP per worker was not much more than a third of that of the U.S., with falling capital intensity. We argue that its major cause is a...

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