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Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017

This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over … positive and significant association with regional inequality. In particular, states with higher inter-regional differences in … experienced the greatest rise in territorial inequality when exposed to greater trade flows. This means that changes in trade …

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Measuring and Explaining Patterns of Spatial Income Inequality from Outer Space : Evidence from Africa

Mveyange, Anthony - 2018

income and lights-based measures of spatial income inequality in South Africa and shows that night-lights are a decent proxy … for spatial income inequality. Further analysis of the patterns of lights-based spatial income inequality across 48 … analysis also reveals that temperature and precipitation changes significantly increased spatial inequality in the long-run and …

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A Randomized Evaluation of a Low-Cost and Highly Scripted Teaching Method to Improve Basic Early Grade Reading Skills in Papua New Guinea

Macdonald, Kevin - 2018

Early grade literacy skills are crucial for children's future education and ultimately their contribution to human capital formation and economic development. A significant challenge in development is identifying low-cost interventions to improve early literacy skills in contexts characterized...

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Putting Your Money Where Your Mouth is : Geographic Targeting of World Bank Projects to the Bottom 40 Percent

Öhler, Hannes - 2017

The adoption of the shared prosperity goal by the World Bank in 2013 and Sustainable Development Goal 10, on inequality …

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Economic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Returns to Human Capital : An Evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis

King, Elizabeth - 2017

According to T.W. Schultz, the returns to human capital are highest in economic environments experiencing unexpected price, productivity, and technology shocks that create "disequilibria." In such environments, the ability of firms and individuals to adapt their resource allocations to shocks...

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Migration, Remittances, Poverty, and Human Capital : Conceptual and Empirical Challenges

McKenzie, David J. - 2016

remittances on income, poverty, inequality, and human capital (or, in general,welfare) as well as difficulties confronting …

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Functional Literacy, Heterogeneity and the Returns to Schooling : Multi-Country Evidence

Fasih, Tazeen - 2017

Little is known about which of the skills that make up workers' human capital contribute to higher earnings. Past empirical evidence suggest that most of the return to schooling is generated by effects or correlates unrelated to the skills measured by the available tests. This paper uses the...

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The Long-Run and Gender-Equalizing Impacts of School Access : Evidence from the First Indochina War

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

Very few studies currently exist on the long-term impacts of schooling policies in developing countries. This paper examines the impacts -- half a century later -- of a mass education program conducted by the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the occupied areas during the First Indochina War....

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Resource Rents, Coercion, and Local Development : Evidence from Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bastos, Paulo - 2018

This paper examines how the dismantling of coercive institutions associated with the end of apartheid in South Africa in 1994 affected the distribution of rents from natural resource exports. It identifies the interplay between coercive institutions and natural resource rents as an important...

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Greco-Roman Lessons for Public Debt Management and Debt Market Development

Campanaro, Alessandra - 2017

Greece and Italy initiated efforts to improve public debt management and develop their domestic debt markets …

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