. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student …

in thirty countries around the world. Chapter 4 shows the association between a measure of patience derived from social …

. The article argues that (1) differences in public goods’ provision cause excessive growth of the primate cities; (2 …) better provision of public goods at the national level decreases the difference between growth rates of the primate... …

on the physical intensity of natural disasters. Chapter 3 zooms in on the local growth effects of natural disasters and …

The general objective of this dissertation is to understand the relationship between economic growth, government … findings in a literature that has few existing examples that demonstrate similar rigorous evidence on the effects of growth and …