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What accounts for the US ascendancy to economic superpower by the early 20th century : the morrill act - human capital hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac; Cook, Adam; Yin, Yong - 2018

Maddison's international panel data show that technically it was the faster growth rate of the US economy that led to its overtaking the UK as economic superpower. We explore the contributing factors. Identifying the land-grant colleges system triggered by the 1862/1890 Morrill Acts (MAs) as a...

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We investigate whether a causal interpretation of the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth is appropriate and whether cross-country evidence supports a case for the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking...

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What Accounts for the US Ascendancy to Economic Superpower by the Early 20th Century : The Morrill Act – Human Capital Hypothesis

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2018

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Board Ancestral Diversity and Firm Performance Volatility

Giannetti, Mariassunta - 2018

We proxy for board members' opinions and values using directors' ancestral origins and show that diversity has costs and benefits, which lead to high performance volatility. Consistent with the idea that diverse groups experiment more, firms with ancestrally diverse boards have more numerous and...

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The United States and the Arab Spring

Kivimäki, Timo - In: Journal of Human Security 9 (2013) 1, pp. 15-26

This article reveals, by studying correlative relationships between US regime support and regime properties, that the US foreign policy in the Middle East has traditionally helped governments to limit the political participation of Islamists, communists, enemies of Israel and populations that...

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Khan, B. Zorina - 2008

Does the lack of international copyrights benefit or harm developing countries? This article examines the effects of U.S. copyright piracy during a period when the U.S. was a developing country. U.S. statutes protected the copyrights of American citizens from 1790, but until 1891 deemed the...

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Processes of Migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (1950-2008)

Durand, Jorge - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009

The main characteristic of the Latin American migration on the 20th century was the change of flow. Until the 1950s, Latin America received migrants from Europe and the Middle East. As a result of economic change, political instability, and economic crisis, Latin America started exporting...

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The historical fertility transition : a guide for economists

Guinnane, Timothy - 2010

The historical fertility transition is the process by which much of Europe and North America went from high to low fertility in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This transformation is central to recent accounts of long-run economic growth. Prior to the transition, women bore as many...

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Strategy when creative destruction accelerates

Govindarajan, Vijay; Srivastava, Anup - 2016

Life is short. That's never been more true for corporations today. An analysis of all 29,688 firms that listed from 1960 through 2009, divided into 10-year cohorts, reveals that newly listed firms in recent cohorts fail more frequently than did those in older ones. Creative destruction is...

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

This paper reviews the literature on culture and economics, focusing primarily on the epidemiological approach. The … effect of culture from the original economic and institutional environment. This approach has been used to study a variety of … development among others. -- culture ; beliefs ; preferences ; norms …

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