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Institutions or geography : which matters most for economic development?
Saha, Bibhas - In: Journal of interdisciplinary economics 25 (2013) 1/2, pp. 69-89
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The diffusion of development : along genetic or geographic lines?
Campbell, Douglas L.; Pyun, Ju Hyun - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 29 (2017) 2, pp. 198-210
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Economic institutions and comparative economic development : a post-colonial perspective
Bennett, Daniel L.; Faria, Hugo J.; Gwartney, James D.; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 96 (2017), pp. 503-519
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300161
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264330
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Degrees of development: how geographic latitude sets the pace of industrialization and demographic change
Strulik, Holger - 2008
Successful economic development is usually characterized by two salient phenomena: industrialization and demographic transition. Chronologically both events happen so closely to each other that historians and economists alike suspect that they are interrelated. This paper develops a theory for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264936
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265093
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … Robinson (2001) was to address this last point by using settler mortality as an instrument for geography-induced endogenous … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268882
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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development
Auer, Raphael - 2009
, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430076
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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005
This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318918