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China’s provision of development finance to other countries is sizable but reliable information is scarce. We introduce a new open source methodology for collecting project-level development finance information and create a database of Chinese official finance to Africa from 2000 - 2011. We...
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Brückner and Ciccone (2010) find that there is a higher probability of the outbreak of civil war in Sub-Sahara Africa following downturns in the international commodity prices of the countries' main traded commodities. I use R to replicate their results which yields identical estimates but...
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This paper investigates the long-term effects of the Paraguayan War (1864–1870) on intimate partner violence (IPV). The identification relies on a novel historical dataset which uses the distance from municipalities to military camps during the war together with military camp sizes to proxy...
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This paper tests the effect of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on pollution, measured by carbon dioxide (CO2 …) emissions per capita. World Bank 1992 study claims that pollution rises with income, but at a slower and slower speed and …
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The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U …-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given …. Using cross section data for several indicators of pollution, the paper estimates the direct and the indirect effect of …
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This paper tests the effect of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on pollution, measured by carbon dioxide (CO2 …) emissions per capita. World Bank 1992 study claims that pollution rises with income, but at a slower and slower speed and …
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Environmental pollution is introduced both as a joint product and as a source of disutility in growth models. The … have sustained growth in the long run without accumulation of pollution; what is the impact of environmental concerns on …, consumption or environmental pollution affected if we take into account the environment; what type of deviations do we observe …
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