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Past Dominations, Current Institutions and the Italian Regional Economic Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Sideri, Marco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments. …

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Technology and the Changing Family: A Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce, Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...

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A Contribution to the Empirics of Convergence: the Case of the European State Members

Sousa, Cândido T.; Pereira, Elisabeth T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This study aims to examine the absolute and conditional convergence across the 27 EU Member States. To examine the absolute β convergence was used Baumol model (1986) estimated by OLS and Panel Data, and to examine the absolute σ convergence the Quah model (1993) by graphical analysis....

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What determines the banking sector performance in globalized financial markets? The case of Turkey

Aysan, Ahmet Faruk; Ceyhan, Şanli Pinar - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 387 (2008) 7, pp. 1593-1602

This study attempts to give an insight into the trend in the performance of the Turkish banking sector by conducting a panel data fixed effects regression analysis. The results reveal that efficiency change is negatively related to the number of branches. We find a positive relationship between...

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The relationship between factor shares and economic development

Sturgill, Brad - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 34 (2012) 4, pp. 1044-1062

-reproducible factor shares decrease with the stage of economic development, and reproducible factor shares increase with the stage of … economic development. This evidence suggests that studies relying on the macroeconomic paradigm of constant factor shares …

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Fertility, economic growth, and human development causal determinants of the developed lifestyle

Hafner, Kurt A.; Mayer-Foulkes, David - In: Journal of Macroeconomics 38 (2013) PA, pp. 107-120

The paper focuses on the long-term determinants of economic development and demographic transition and identifies the … causal structure governing the triad of high income, high human development and low fertility rates defined as the “developed … techniques. Empirical results show a causal long-run relationship between high income, high human development and low fertility …

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Poverty, voracity, and growth

Strulik, Holger - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 396-403

This article investigates economic performance when enforceable property rights are missing and basic needs matter for consumption. It suggests a new view of the so-called voracity effect according to which windfall gains in productivity induce behavior that leads to lower economic growth....

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Should developing countries undervalue their currencies?

Schröder, Marcel - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 140-151

The Washington Consensus emphasizes the economic costs of real exchange rate distortions. However, a sizable recent empirical literature finds that undervalued real exchange rates help countries to achieve faster economic growth. This paper shows that recent findings are driven by inappropriate...

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Mass education or a minority well educated elite in the process of growth: The case of India

Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - In: Journal of Development Economics 105 (2013) C, pp. 303-320

This paper analyzes whether mass education is more growth enhancing in developing countries than having a minority well educated elite. Using Indian Census data as a benchmark and enrollment rates at different levels of education, we compute annual attainment levels for a panel of 16 Indian...

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brezis, Elise S. - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 15-22

This paper links the two fields of “development traps” and “brain drain”. We construct a model which integrates …

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