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The causal effect of political power on the provision of public education : evidence from a weighted voting system
Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Tyrefors, Björn - 2020 - This version: May 29, 2021
that political institutions are a key determinant of human capital accumulation and long-run economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161499
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Democracy and the quality of economic institutions : theory and evidence
Krieger, Tommy - 2022
We present a simple model, illustrating how democracy may improve the quality of the economic institutions. The model further suggests that institutional quality varies more across autocracies than across democracy and that the positive effect of democracies on economic institutional quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013342090
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development
Galor, Oded - 2012
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … the development process. In early stages of industrialization, as physical capital accumulation was a prime engine of … growth, inequality enhanced the process of development by channeling resources towards individuals whose marginal propensity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282627
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Inequality, human capital formation and the process of development
Galor, Oded - 2011
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to … for economic development, the Neoclassical paradigm, which had subsequently dominated the field of macroeconomics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284077
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The human capital peace : development and international conflict
Francis, Andrew M. - In: Defence and peace economics 20 (2009) 5, pp. 395-411
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Can brain drain be good for human capital growth? : evidence from cross-country skill premiums and education costs
Okoye, Dozie - In: Economic analysis and policy : EAP ; journal of the … 49 (2016), pp. 74-99
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485307
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The rise of monogamy
Çitçi, Sadettin Haluk - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 4, pp. 377-397
Why has polygyny, marriage of a man to multiple women, common in most societies throughout history, almost disappeared in modern industrialized countries? Do women play a role in its disappearance? A simple theoretical model suggests that at the later stage of the transition from polygyny to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422242
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Education in economic theory
Osmanković, Jasmina; Jahić, Hatidža; Šehić, Ensar - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 9 (2011) 1, pp. 63-78
theoretical approaches to economic development after World War II. In order to find answers and to present a current issue why and … how certain countries have made progress while others have regressed in the development process, many theories and models … explaining processes of growth and development have emerged and developed. By applying the method of analysis, synthesis and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010524
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Education and propaganda : tradeoffs to public education provision in nondemocracies
Testa, Patrick A. - In: Journal of public economics 160 (2018), pp. 66-81
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