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Heterogeneity, Measurement Error and Misallocation : Evidence from African Agriculture
Gollin, Douglas - 2019
rich panel data from farms in Tanzania and Uganda, we estimate our model using a flexible specification in which we allow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895000
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Globalization and Poverty
Harrison, Ann E. - 2010
This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761253
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Mismatch and Assimilation
Wang, Ping - 2018
Income disparity across countries has been large and widening over time. We develop a tractable model where factor requirements in production technology do not necessarily match a country's factor input profile. Appropriate assimilation of frontier technologies balances such multi-dimensional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911691
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Exchange Rate Regimes and Capital Mobility : How Much of the Swoboda Thesis Survives?
Eichengreen, Barry - 2010
Alexander Swoboda is one of the originators of the bipolar view that capital mobility creates pressure for countries to abandon intermediate exchange rate arrangements in favor of greater flexibility and harder pegs. This paper takes another look at the evidence for this hypothesis using two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759200
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The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity : Nature, History, and the Role of Trade
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2016
characteristics into two groups, those primarily important for agriculture and those primarily important for trade, we find that the … agriculture variables have relatively more explanatory power in countries that developed early and the trade variables have … agriculture today. We explain this apparent puzzle in a model in which two technological shocks occur, one increasing agricultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994896
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100130
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Productivity Dispersion and Persistence Among the World's Most Numerous Firms
Maue, Casey; Burke, Marshall; Emerick, Kyle - 2022
derive largely from studies of manufacturing firms in wealthy countries, and thus have unknown relevance for the world's most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013307824
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Have the Poor Always Been Less Likely to Migrate? Evidence from Inheritance Practices During the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2012
Using novel data on 50,000 Norwegian men, we study the effect of wealth on the probability of internal or international migration during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), a time when the US maintained an open border to European immigrants. We do so by exploiting variation in parental wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013101829
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Are Poor Individuals Mainly Found in Poor Households? Evidence Using Nutrition Data for Africa
Brown, Caitlin - 2017
Antipoverty policies assume that targeting poor households suffices in reaching poor individuals. We question this assumption. Our comprehensive assessment for sub-Saharan Africa reveals that undernourished women and children are spread widely across the household wealth and consumption...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942710
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Aging and Death Under a Dollar a Day
Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2010
This paper uses household survey data form several developing countries to investigate whether the poor (defined as those living under $1 or $2 dollars a day at PPP) and the non poor have different mortality rates in old age. We construct a proxy measure of longevity, which is the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759650