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underlying barriers to firm entry and growth. …
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In this paper, I document the existence of unconditional convergence in labor productivity across Mexican states in three-digit manufacturing industries. The rate of convergence for the period 1988-2018 is 1.18% per year. However, this result does not hold at the aggregate level: I find no...
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per capita incomes, slow economic growth and geographic conditions favoring insurgency are the factors most robustly … to the economic legacies of war, we frame the literature in terms of neoclassical economic growth theory. Emerging …
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the PWT to estimate growth rates. Moreover, this variability matters for the cross-country growth literature. While growth …
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Whether government spending can boost the pace of economic growth is widely debated. In the neoclassical growth model …, it is supplies of productive resources and productivity that determine growth in the long-run. In endogenous growth … models, an increase in government spending may raise the steady-state rate of growth due to positive spillover effects on …
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The implicit assumption of the donor community is that Africa is trapped by its poverty, and that aid is necessary if Africa is to escape the trap. In this note I suggest an alternative assumption: that Africa is caught in an institutional trap, signaled and reinforced by the small share of...
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We estimate a supply and demand model of private college education services in Mexico for the 2005-2019 period, in order to identify the factors that influenced the dynamics of their equilibrium prices. The model is estimated with two- and three-stage least squares using panel data at the state...
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In calculating damages in healthcare antitrust cases, the difference-in-difference (DID) approach provides a potentially valuable means of controlling for lawful factors that influence prices, such as case-mix and quality of care, as distinct from price differentials due to unlawful behavior....
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Consistent with nonprofit fundraising practices, donation visibility has been shown to increase giving. While concern for status is used to explain this response, the authors argue that this explanation relies on the assumption that giving signals only income or generosity. When giving signals...
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The evil eye belief is a widespread superstition according to which people can cause harm by a mere envious glance at coveted objects or their owners. This paper argues that such belief originated and persisted as a useful heuristic under conditions in which envy was likely to trigger...
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