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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development
Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004
Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...
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The western European marriage pattern and economic development
Foreman-Peck, James - 2009
For several centuries, women's age at first marriage in Western Europe was higher than in the east (and in the rest of … the world). Over the same period Western Europe began slow but sustained economic development relative to elsewhere. A … exercise of fertility restraint through higher marriage age, with greater human capital accumulation. The first explanation is …
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Fertility differences between married and cohabiting couples: a switching regression analysis
Zhang, Junfu; Song, Xue - 2007
more children than cohabiting couples primarily because marriage provides stronger incentives for specialization in …
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Country role models for development success: The case of Costa Rica
Trejos, Alberto - 2009
into the world economy) explain the successful trends, and can be thought of - at least in hindsight - as a development …
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The Omani and Bahraini paths to development: Rare and contrasting oil-based economic success stories
Looney, Robert - 2009
Oman and Bahrain are Middle Eastern success stories. There are some key similarities. Both have followed pragmatic development strategies built on a stable foundation of strengthened governance structures and enhanced economic liberalization. These improvements occurred in somewhat different...
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The Chinese economy: How much market - how much state?
Taube, Markus - In: CESifo Forum 06 (2005) 3, pp. 3-7
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Institutional Determinants of Economic Performance in OECD Countries – An Institutions Climate Index
Eicher, Theo; Röhn, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 05 (2007) 1, pp. 38-49
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The Primacy of Institutions Reconsidered: The Effects of Malaria Prevalence in the Empirics of Development
Gundlach, Erich - 2004
I reconsider the primacy of institutions over geography as an explanatory factor of cross-country differences in economic performance, which has recently been postulated by Acemoglu et al. (2001) and others. My estimates show that the reported missing direct performance effects of a measure of...
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The long-run determinants of fertility: One century of demographic change 1900 - 1999
Herzer, Dierk; Strulik, Holger; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2010
We examine the long-run relationship between fertility, mortality, and income using panel cointegration techniques and the available data for the last century. Our main result is that mortality changes and growth of income per capita account for a major part of the fertility change...
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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations
Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007
industrialization and, thereby, their take-off to a state of sustained economic growth. The theory contributes to the understanding of … innovation and their ability in fostering industrialization, the proposed theory suggests that the desirable degree of the …
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