We investigate the resource impact on economic growth using matching. Using a nonparametric minimum-distance matching method, we match the countries according to their observable characteristics, and estimate the relative growth rates of each matched pair. This way we are able to analyze the...

This paper compares Japan and the US as they provide different types of capital to the developing world, focusing especially on foreign aid and, to some extent, also on remittances and the role of NGOs. The main focus is on the quality of aid and on past conceptual differences and on an emerging...

There is little doubt that technology change, both in terms of its process and quality dimensions, represents the principal driving force to explain comparative economic performance at both micro and macro levels. This paper examines the sources of technology change and the impediments to the...

We study the evolution of racial educational inequality across US states from 1940 to 2000. We show that throughout this period, despite evidence of convergence, the racial gap in attainment between blacks and whites has been persistently determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results...

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their children against its costs. Churches and states may...

The end of the 19th century was marked by several events which were extremely important to Portugal. The consequences of these events would later be responsible for the fall of the Monarchy and, thus, for the birth of the Republic. The first Republic was officially proclaimed on the 5th October...

Research on Singapore's economic history has been complicated by the absence of economic data on pre-independence Singapore. This book aims to fill the gap by presenting a time-series of historical GDP estimates for the periods 1900–39 and 1950–60. The new data presented in the...

En el presente artículo se pretende mostrar que una de las causas que han contribuidoal escaso desarrollo de la integración económica en el Pacto Andino, se encuentra en losprocesos históricos que ha tenido que sufrir cada uno de los países en su organizaciónpolítica, económica y social,...

El artículo de Armando Di Filippo comienza haciendo un análisis de lo que es elpensamiento único para luego adentrarse en el estudio del institucionalismo y elneoinstitucionalismo. Pero el planteamiento central está enfocado a examinar porun lado el estructuralismo latinoamericano y la...

El artículo argumenta que el proceso de integración europea ha sido exitosopuesto que significó crecimiento económico, desarrollo e integración política,para todos los europeos, haciendo la UE próspera como nunca antes. Deotro lado, la UE goza de la libre movilidad de personas y de...