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Measuring Ancient Inequality
Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2012
Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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Adult Mortality and Children's Transition into Marriage
Beegle, Kathleen; Krutikova, Sofya - 2012
Adult mortality due to HIV/AIDS and other diseases is posited to affect children through a number of pathways. On top … of health and education outcomes, adult mortality can have significant effects on children by influencing demographic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552590
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A Kleptocrat's Survival Guide : Autocratic Longevity in the Face of Civil Conflict
Milante, Gary - 2012
Autocratic regimes are quite often short-lived kleptocracies formed and maintained through force and used to appropriate wealth from subjects. Some of these autocracies collapse after only a year or two of plundering while others manage to survive for 15 or 20 years. This paper asks why some...
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The Long-run Impact of Orphanhood
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2012
This paper presents unique evidence that orphanhood matters in the long run for health and education outcomes, in a region of Northwestern Tanzania. The paper studies a sample of 718 non-orphaned children surveyed in 1991-94, who were traced and re-interviewed as adults in 2004. A large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552798
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Adult Mortality and Consumption Growth in the Age of HIV/AIDS
Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - 2012
The authors use a 13-year panel of individuals in Tanzania to assess how adult mortality shocks affect both short and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553903
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On the Contribution of Demographic Change to Aggregate Poverty Measures for the Developing World
Ravallion, Martin - 2012
non-poor in the developing world. The author estimates that selective mortality-whereby poorer people tend to have higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554039
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The Long-Term Legacy of the Khmer Rouge Period in Cambodia
de Walque, Damien - 2013
contributes to the literature on the economic analysis of conflict. Using mortality data for siblings from the Cambodia … Demographic and Health Survey in 2000, he shows that excess mortality was extremely high and heavily concentrated during 1974 … educated background were more likely to die. Infant mortality was also at very high levels during the period, and disability …
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Measuring Quarterly Economic Growth from Outer Space
Beyer, Robert C.M; Hu, Yingyao; Yao, Jiaxiong - 2022
This paper presents a novel framework to estimate the elasticity between nighttime lights and quarterly economic activity. The relationship is identified by accounting for varying degrees of measurement errors in nighttime light data across countries. The elasticity is 1.55 for emerging markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013255389
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Growth, Inequality, and Simulated Poverty Paths for Tanzania, 1992-2002
Demombynes, Gabriel; Hoogeveen, Johannes G. - 2013
Although Tanzania experienced relatively rapid growth in per capita GDP in the 1995 2001 period, household budget survey (HBS) data show only a modest and statistically insignificant decline in poverty between 1992 and 2001. To assess the likely trajectory of poverty rates over the course of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559869
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Hunting for Leopards : Long Run Country Income Dynamics in Africa
Arbache, Jorge Saba; Page, John - 2012
This paper examines the country-level dynamics of long-run growth in Africa between 1975 and 2005. The authors examine …
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