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National Institutions and African Development: Evidence from Partitioned Ethnicities

Michalopoulos, Stelios; Papaioannou, Elias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We investigate the role of national institutions on regional development in a novel framework. We exploit the fact that the arbitrary political boundaries in the eve of African independence partitioned more than two hundred ethnic groups across different countries subjecting similar cultures,...

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Chapter 1. Culture, Entrepreneurship, and Growth

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - 2014

where growth is driven by the innovative activity of entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship is risky and requires investments that … affect the steepness of the lifetime consumption profile. As a consequence, the occupational choice of entrepreneurship …

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Mobile phones, institutional quality and entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Nwachukwu, Jacinta C. - 2016

This study investigates the role of mobile phones in governance for doing business in Sub-Saharan Africa with data from … dimensions of entrepreneurship are considered. Two main findings are established with respect to the net effects of the …

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Does It Matter Where You Came From? Ancestry Composition and Economic Performance of U.S. Counties, 1850-2010

Fulford, Scott L.; Petkov, Ivan; Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2015

The United States provides a unique laboratory for understanding how the cultural, institutional, and human capital endowments of immigrant groups shape economic outcomes. In this paper, we use census micro-sample information to reconstruct the country-of-ancestry distribution for US counties...

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The Shadow of the Neolithic Revolution on Life Expectancy: A Double-Edged Sword

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This research explores the persistent effect of the Neolithic Revolution on the evolution of life expectancy in the course of human history. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that the onset of the Neolithic Revolution and the associated rise in infectious diseases triggered...

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