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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
experience. In contrast to the East Asian experience, none of the recent growth accelerations in Latin America, Africa, or South … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … explain this anomaly by arguing that the forces that promoted structural change in Africa originated on the demand side …
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Anti-social norms
Fergusson, Leopoldo; Guerra, José-Alberto; Robinson, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Since formal rules can only partially reduce opportunistic behavior, third-party sanctioning to promote fairness is critical to achieving desirable social outcomes. Social norms may underpin such behavior, but they can also undermine it. We study one such norm the "don't be a toad" norm, as it...
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Ethnic Remoteness Reduces the Peace Dividend from Trade Access
Desmet, Klaus; Gomes, Joseph Flavian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
. Exploiting the staggered implementation of the US-initiated Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and using high …-resolution data on ethnic composition and violent conflict for sub-Saharan Africa, our analysis finds that in the wake of improved …
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...
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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj - 2008
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
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Daily Cross-Border Equity Flows : Pushed or Pulled?
Griffin, John M. - 2002
In a model that is consistent with the existence of a home bias and with foreign investors that are less informed than domestic investors, we show that unexpectedly high worldwide returns lead to net equity inflows into small countries. In addition, a small country experiences net equity inflows...
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Missing Unmarried Women
Anderson, Siwan - 2015
. India has the largest proportion of missing adult women who are without a husband, followed by the countries in East Africa …
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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...
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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys
Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same period, terror attacks have increased. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we examine the effects of terror attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes...
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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter
Giavazzi, Francesco - 2020
We study the role of perceived threats from cultural diversity induced by terrorist attacks and a salient criminal event on public discourse and voters' support for far-right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...
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