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Immigration and the origins of regional inequality: Government-sponsored European migration to southern Brazil before World War I

de Carvalho Filho, Irineu; Monasterio, Leonardo - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 794-807

, better health and education outcomes; and for the areas close to German colonies, also less inequality of income and …

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Are debt repayment incentives undermined by foreign aid?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Schröder, Philipp J.H. - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 4, pp. 1073-1091

This paper investigates the effects of inflows of foreign aid on the debt repayment behavior of developing countries. The paper first delineates the overall incentives to committing to timely debt repayment in a war of attrition-type model. A set of panel estimates including 93 developing...

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“The people want the fall of the regime”: Schooling, political protest, and the economy

Campante, Filipe R.; Chor, Davin - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 3, pp. 495-517

We provide evidence that economic circumstances are a key intermediating variable for understanding the relationship between schooling and political protest. Using the World Values Survey, we find that individuals with higher levels of schooling, but whose income outcomes fall short of that...

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A story of large landowners and math skills: Inequality and human capital formation in long-run development, 1820–2000

Baten, Joerg; Juif, Dácil - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 2, pp. 375-401

We create a new dataset to test the influence of land inequality on long-run human capital formation in a global cross …-country study and assess the importance of land inequality relative to income inequality. Our results show that early land … inequality has a detrimental influence on math and science skills even a century later. We find that this influence is causal …

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Informal employment and its effect on the income distribution in urban China

Xue, Jinjun; Gao, Wenshu; Guo, Lin - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 84-93

that the earnings gap explains more than half of the overall personal income inequality in urban China. These results … alternative means of reducing inequality in China. …

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The impact of parental migration on children's school performance in rural China

Zhao, Qiran; Yu, Xiaohua; Wang, Xiaobing; Glauben, Thomas - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 43-54

A substantial proportion of China's rapid economic growth is attributed to its large number of rural to urban migrants, but most of these migrants' children are left behind in rural areas, mainly due to China's household registration system. Any attempt to identify the impact of parental...

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The effect of sibling size on children's health: a regression discontinuity design approach based on China's one-child policy

Zhong, Hai - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 156-165

A major challenge to the empirical studies on the effect of sibling size on children's health is the endogeneity of family size. The radical one-child policy implemented in 1979 in China provides us with a unique opportunity to apply a regression discontinuity design method to examine this...

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Visa Policies, Networks and the Cliff at the Border

BERTOLI, Simone; MORAGA, Jesús FERNÁNDEZ-HUERTAS - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2014

The scale of international migration flows depends on moving costs that are, in turn, influenced by host-country policies and by the size of migrant networks at destination. This paper estimates the influence of visa policies and networks upon bilateral migration flows to multiple destinations....

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Are There Nutrient-based Poverty Traps? Evidence on Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru

Chong, Alberto; Cohen, Isabelle; Field, Erica; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

A key question in development economics is whether nutritional deficiencies generate intergenerational poverty traps by …

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Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas

Henderson, Morgan; Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We combine the date-of-observation found in Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas and a newly-constructed dataset on the date-of-colonization at the ethnic-group level to study the effects of the duration of colonial rule on a variety of political, economic, and social characteristics of ethnic groups...

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