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Does Agriculture Generate Local Economic Spillovers? Short-run and Long-run Evidence from the Ogallala Aquifer

Hornbeck, Richard - 2012

Agricultural development may support broader economic development, though agricultural expansion may also crowd-out local non-agricultural activity. On the United States Plains, areas over the Ogallala aquifer experienced windfall agricultural gains when post-WWII technologies increased farmers'...

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Ricardo's Theory of Comparative Advantage : Old Idea, New Evidence

Costinot, Arnaud - 2012

When asked to name one proposition in the social sciences that is both true and non-trivial, Paul Samuelson famously replied: 'Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage'. Truth, however, in Samuelson's reply refers to the fact that Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage is mathematically...

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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...

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Business Literacy and Development : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in Rural Mexico

Calderon, Gabriela - 2013

A large share of the poor in developing countries run small enterprises, often earning low incomes. This paper explores whether the poor performance of businesses can be explained by a lack of basic business skills. We randomized the offer of a free, 48-hour business skills course to female...

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Peer Effects with Random Assignment : Results for Dartmouth Roommates

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2000

This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join...

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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

Cook, Philip J. - 2005

A common practice in the fields of education, mental health, and juvenile justice is to segregate problem youths in groups with deviant peers. Assignments of this sort, which concentrate deviant youths, may facilitate deviant peer influence and lead to perverse outcomes. This possibility adds to...

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Beetles : Biased Promotions and Persistence of False Belief

Akerlof, George A. - 2017

This paper develops a theory of promotion based on evaluations by the already promoted. The already promoted show some favoritism toward candidates for promotion with similar beliefs, just as beetles are more prone to eat the eggs of other species. With such egg-eating bias, false beliefs may...

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The Slowdown of the Economics Publishing Process

Ellison, Glenn - 2000

top economics journal. This paper documents the slowdown and notes that a substantial part is due to an increasing … quality. Various time series are examined for evidence that the economics profession has changed along these dimensions. Paper … process. It is difficult to attribute much of the slowdown to observable changes in the economics profession. Evolving social …

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Marshall's Economies

Henderson, Vernon - 1999

This paper estimates the nature and magnitude of the local externalities from own industry scale, as envisioned by Marshall. Census panel data on individual plants in high-tech and machinery industries across up to 487 countries are utilized, to quantify the direct effects of local external...

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Can Capital Mobility be Destabilizing?

Meng, Qinglai - 1999

In a standard two-sector neoclassical model with distortions, capital mobility can render the steady state indeterminate, in the sense that there exist infinitely many convergent paths. In the closed economy with no international capital mobility, the utility function must be linear or close to...

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