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Low growth equilibria with low investment in human capital generally tend to persist till an external shock affects the economy. In this paper we use data on Christian missions to proxy a long-lasting educational shock in Africa. We estimate the effect of this shock on the quality of children...
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out of a development trap. …
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Education as a tool in the fight against corruption has been subject to much debate in academic and policy making … learning and synergy effects. Four main findings are established. First, education is a powerful tool in the fight against … corruption. Second, there is evidence of an incremental effect in the transition from secondary to tertiary education. Third …
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This study shows that civilians' behavior can be severely affected by territorial control by an insurgent group, and that these effects can persist after the government regains control and the occupation ends. I consider a framework of civilian behavior under insurgent rule, where civilians have...
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conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …
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This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …
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development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density …
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features that seem to determine development depends on the workings of political institutions, which define how the …
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We argue that the partition of ethnic groups following the Scramble for Africa does not itself matter for development … affect development. Furthermore, the analysis of data from the Afrobarometer shows that the persistence of informal … partitioned group affects development …
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necessarily mean that giving money to women is a good development policy. We show that depending on the nature of the production …
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