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Barro, Robert J. - 2003

Empirical research on the determinants of economic growth has typically neglected the influence of religion. To fill … are the dependent variables. The instruments are dummy variables for the presence of state religion and for regulation of … the religion market, an indicator of religious pluralism, and the composition of religions. We find that economic growth …

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People's Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes

Guiso, Luigi - 2002

Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the … institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys to identify the relationship between intensity of religious beliefs and …, differentiating on whether a religion is dominant in a country. We find that on average, religious beliefs are associated with good …

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Religion and Political Economy in an International Panel

Barro, Robert J. - 2002

attendance and religious beliefs are positively related to education (thereby conflicting with theories in which religion … and lower fertility. We investigate the effects of official state religions, government regulation of the religion market … the measures of official state religion, government regulation, and religious pluralism …

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Financial development and growth in the short and long run

Fisman, Raymond - 2004

"We analyze the relationship between financial development and inter-industry resource allocation in the short- and long-run. We suggest that in the long-run, economies with high rates of financial development will devote relatively more resources to industries with a 'natural' reliance on...

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Inequality and Growth : What Can the Data Say?

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2000

This paper describes the correlations between inequality and the growth rates in cross-country data. Using non-parametric methods, we show that the growth rate is an inverted U-shaped function of net changes in inequality: Changes in inequality (in any direction) are associated with reduced...

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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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Determinants of Long-Term Growth : A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach

Doppelhofer, Gernot - 2000

This paper examines the robustness of explanatory variables in cross-country economic growth regressions. It employs a novel approach, Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE), which constructs estimates as a weighted average of OLS estimates for every possible combination of included...

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Quantifying Quality Growth

Bils, Mark - 2000

We introduce an instrumental variables approach to estimate the importance of unmeasured quality growth for a set of 66 durable consumer goods. Our instrument is based on predicting which of these 66 goods will display rapid quality growth. Using pooled cross- relatively sections of households...

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Cornucopia : The Pace of Economic Growth in the Twentieth Century

DeLong, J. Bradford - 2000

There is one central fact about the economic history of the twentieth century: above all, the century just past has been the century of increasing material wealth and economic productivity. No previous era and no previous economy has seen material wealth and productive potential grow at such a...

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

Rodrik, Dani - 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 underpin them. The paper emphasizes the importance of...

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