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Productivity Differences between and within Countries

Acemoglu, Daron - 2010

We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...

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Matching, heterogeneity and the evolution of income distribution

Acemoglu, Daron - 1996

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Why did the West extend the franchise? : democracy, inequality and growth in historical perspective

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 1998

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The world income distribution

Acemoglu, Daron - 2001

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Equilibrium Bias of Technology

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

The study of the bias of new technologies is important both as part of the analysis of the nature of technology adoption and the direction of technological change, and to understand the distributional implications of new technologies. In this paper, I analyze the equilibrium bias of technology....

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Changes in the Wage Structure, Family Income, and Children'S Education

Acemoglu, Daron; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2021

We exploit the changes in the distribution of family income to estimate the effect of parental resources on college education. Our strategy exploits the fact that families at the bottom of the income distribution were much poorer in the 1990s than they were in the 1970s, while the opposite is...

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Reversal of Fortune : Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon; Robinson, James A. - 2021

Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for economic prosperity. This reversal is...

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The World Income Distribution

Acemoglu, Daron; Ventura, Jaume - 2021

We show that even in the absence of diminishing returns in production and techno-logical spillovers, international trade leads to a stable world income distribution. This is because specialization and trade introduce de facto diminishing returns: countries that accumulate capital faster than...

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Economic and Political Inequality in Development : The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia

Acemoglu, Daron; B, M; Querubin, Pablo; Robinson, James A. - 2007

Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution … of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic inequality has detrimental effects on economic … growth in general, but also that differences in economic inequality across the American continent during the 19th century are …

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Emergence and Persistence of Inefficient States

Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2006

. This enables them to reduce the amount of redistribution and public good provision in democracy. Moreover, the inefficient … with an inefficient state is more likely to arise when there is greater inequality between the rich and the poor, when …

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