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Mortality, Fertility and Persistent Income Inequality
Sarkar, Jayanta - 2007
development, consonant with patterns of demographic transition. The results suggest that provision of public health that raises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012775459
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Heat, Humidity, and Infant Mortality in the Developing World
Geruso, Michael - 2018
We study how extreme temperature exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries, which has been a limiting factor in the temperature-mortality literature, by extracting birth histories from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914359
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Heat, humidity, and infant mortality in the developing world
Geruso, Michael; Spears, Dean - 2018
We study how extreme weather exposure impacts infant survival in the developing world. Our analysis overcomes the absence of vital registration systems in many poor countries by extracting birth histories from household surveys. Studying 53 developing countries that span five continents, we find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893618
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Accumulation and Productivity Growth in Industrializing Economies
Robertson, Peter E.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2003
Historically, episodes of rapid growth are accompanied by significant structural change. In this paper we therefore aim to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing economies. To fix ideas we present an extension of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263207
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Two views on institutions and development: the grand transition vs the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265602
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Two views on institutions and development: The grand transition vs. the primacy of institutions
Paldam, Martin; Gundlach, Erich - 2007
The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many … institutional changes can be understood as transitions occurring at roughly the same level (zones) of development. The Primacy of … Institutions (PoI) view claims that economic development is a consequence of an exogenous selection of institutions. Our survey of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273104
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Will GDP growth increase happiness in developing countries?
Clark, Andrew E.; Senik, Claudia - 2011
reliable than those at the individual level. Second, development is a qualitative process involving take-off points and … stages and dimensions of the development process. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278591
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The brain drain from developing countries : the brain drain produces many more losers than winners in developing countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2014
The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416347
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304117
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Globalization and female labor force participation in developing countries : an empirical (re-)assessment
Cooray, Arusha; Gaddis, Isis; Wacker, Konstantin - 2012
We investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade, as two measures of globalization, on female labor force participation in a sample of 80 developing countries over the last decades. Contrary to the mainstream view in the literature, which is mainly based on country-case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010358648