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This paper provides additional evidence on the U-shaped relationship between the process of economic development and women's labor force participation. The experience of the United States is studied in a comparative perspective relative to a sample of rich economies observed over the period...
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Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...
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Over the last three decades, Mexico has aggressively reformed its economy, opening to foreign trade and investment … that China sells, rather than goods that China buys. I assess evidence from recent literature on these arguments and …
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We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining income levels around the world, using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions trumps' everything else. Once institutions are...
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We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share of the labor force engaged in agriculture. This decline has been accompanied by a systematic increase in the productivity of the labor force, as it has moved from low...
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country, single period numerical general equilibrium model which captures China and her major trading partners and examine the … outcomes of trade policy bargaining solutions (bargaining over tariffs and financial transfers) over time as China grows more … parameterizations. This yields a measure of both absolute and relative gain to China from bargaining. We calibrate our model to base …
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prevent wasteful competition for seigniorage. By contrast, supranational unions, such as the Latin Monetary Union or the …
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products, aggravating environmental damage. China's rapidly growing trade and serious environmental degradation appear to be no … exception. However, much of China's trade growth is attributable to the international fragmentation of production. This kind of … trade could be cleaner, if fragmented production occurs in cleaner goods, or if China specializes in cleaner stages of …
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patrilocality and concern for women's "purity" help explain the male-skewed sex ratio in India and China and low female employment …
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