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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...

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Institutions for High-Quality Growth: What They are and How to Acquire Them

Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000

This paper opens with a discussion of the types of institutions that allow markets to perform adequately. While we can … identify in broad terms what these are, there is no unique mapping between markets and the non-market institutions that … institutions. A range of evidence indicates that participatory democracies enable higher-quality growth. …

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In Search of the Holy Grail: Policy Convergence, Experimentation, and Economic Performance

Mukand, Sharun; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

We consider a model of policy choice in which appropriate policies depend on a country's own circumstances, but the presence of a successful leader generates an informational externality and results in too little 'policy experimentation.' Corrupt governments are reined in while honest...

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When Economic Reform Goes Wrong: Cashews in Mozambique

McMillan, Margaret Mcmillan; Rodrik, Dani; Welch, Karen Horn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

Mozambique liberalized its cashew sector in the early 1990s in response to pressure from the World Bank. Opponents of the reform have argued that the policy did little to benefit poor cashew farmers while bankrupting factories in urban areas. Using a welfare-theoretic framework, we analyze the...

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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development?

Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michele - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Empirical evidence suggests that money in the hands of mothers (as opposed to fathers) increases expenditures on children. From this, should we infer that targeting transfers to women is good economic policy? In this paper, we develop a non-cooperative model of household decision making to...

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Parenting with Style: Altruism and Paternalism in Intergenerational Preference Transmission

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We develop a theory of intergenerational transmission of preferences that rationalizes the choice between alternative parenting styles (as set out in Baumrind 1967). Parents maximize an objective function that combines Beckerian altruism and paternalism towards children. They can affect their...

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Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We discuss the two-way link between culture and economic growth. We present a model of endogenous technical change where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile....

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Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem?

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce...

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Do democratic transitions produce bad economic outcomes?

Rodrik, Dani; Wacziarg, Romain - In: The American economic review 95 (2005) 2, pp. 50-55

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