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From Demographic Dividend to Demographic Burden? Regional Trends of Population Aging in Russia

Matytsin, Mikhail - 2017

Do regions with higher working age populations grow faster? This paper examines this question using data from Russian regions and finds evidence that demographic trends influence regional growth convergence. In other words, keeping other factors constant, poorer regions grow faster than richer...

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Population, Poverty, and Climate Change

Das Gupta, Monica - 2017

most notably in the poorest countries. Lowering fertility has many benefits for the poorest countries. Studies indicate … that, in high fertility settings, fertility decline facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction. It also reduces the … fertility, and that they are highly pro-poor in their impact. While the rest of the world wrestles with the complexities of …

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Health, Demographic Transition and Economic Growth

Jorgensen, Ole Hagen - 2017

This paper develops a link between four central components of the demographic transition: survival rates; fertility … survival is found to reduce the fertility rate and altruistic transfers, and thereby increase the savings rate and the …

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Stationary Bandits, State Capacity, and the Malthusian Transition : The Lasting Impact of the Taiping Rebellion

Xu, Lixin Colin - 2018

The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) in China was the deadliest civil war in history. This paper provides evidence that this cataclysmic event significantly shaped the Malthusian transition and long-term development that followed, especially in areas where the experiences that stemmed from the...

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Wider Economic Benefits of Investments in Transport Corridors and the Role of Complementary Policies

Melecky, Martin - 2018

This paper estimates the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral and North-South-East-West Highways in India on welfare, social inclusion, and environmental quality. The analysis uses district-level data for 1994-2011 and the difference-in-difference method. The results suggest that the highways...

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Get Rich or Die Tryin' : Perceived Earnings, Perceived Mortality Rate and the Value of a Statistical Life of Potential Work-Migrants from Nepal

Shrestha, Maheshwor - 2017

Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the information they have, what is their revealed willingness to trade risks for higher earnings? To answer these questions, this paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment...

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Hit and Run? Income Shocks and School Dropouts in Latin America

Cerutti, Paula Maria - 2019

How do labor income shocks affect household investment in upper secondary and tertiary schooling? Using longitudinal data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on the enrollment status of youth ages 15 to 25. The...

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Global Inequality : The Implications of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Lakner, Christoph - 2017

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income growth was largest for the global top 1 percent and...

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Does Child Sponsorship Pay Off in Adulthood? An International Study of Impacts on Income and Wealth

Wydick, Bruce - 2017

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored children using data on 10,144 individuals in six countries. To identify causal effects, an age-eligibility rule followed from 1980 to 1992 is utilized that limited sponsorship...

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Do Poor Countries Really Need More it? The Role of Relative Prices and Industrial Composition

Eden, Maya - 2017

Conventional wisdom suggests too little information and communication technologies (ICT) in poor countries. Indeed, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the capital share of ICT. While this regularity is consistent...

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