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Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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The spread of anti-trafficking policies: Evidence from a new index

Cho, Seo-Young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011

We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...

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Democratization, violent social conflicts, and growth

Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2011

This paper investigates the empirical role of violent conflicts for the causal effect of democracy on economic growth. Exploiting within-country variation to identify the effect of democratization during the Third Wave, we find evidence that the effect of democratization is weaker than reported...

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Education is good for the poor: a note on Dollar and Kraay (2001)

Gundlach, Erich; Navarro de Pablo, José; Weisert, Natascha - 2001

A recent paper by Dollar and Kraay (2001) finds that higher primary educational attainment of the workforce does not increase the income of the poor except for its effect on average income. We test the robustness of their finding by using a broader measure of human capital that accounts for...

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Von der baldigen Erschöpfung der Rohstoffe und anderen Märchen

Frondel, Manuel; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2007

Der Rohstoffgehalt der Erdkruste ist endlich. Diese unumstößliche Tatsache löst in Zeiten hoher Rohstoffpreise immer wieder große Besorgnis um die derzeitige, vor allem aber um die zukünftige Rohstoffversorgung aus. Gestützt auf die Medien schüren besonders Interessengruppen derartige...

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Ursachen der Finanzmarktkrise: Wer hat versagt?

Kösters, Wim; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2008

Wer ist eigentlich schuld an der Finanzmarktkrise? Teile der Politik und der Medien bieten ebenso einfache wie eingängige Erklärungen an: Schuld seien die Gier der Banker und allgemein ein Versagen des Kapitalismus. Aus dieser Sicht konsequent werden für die Zukunft vor allem umfassendere...

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Persistence of underdevelopment: Does the type of natural resource endowment matter?

Perälä, Maiju - 2003

This paper examines growth successes and failures across countries and notes the latter’s perplexing predominance among ex ante low-income economies. An explanation for this persistence of underdevelopment is proposed through an empirical investigation that brings forth evidence on the...

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(Re)Distribution of personal incomes, education and economic performances across countries

Rehme, Günther - 2002

In many OECD countries income inequality has risen, but surprisingly redistribution has as well. The theory attributes this partly to the redistributive effect of education spending. In the model income inequality and growth depend in an inverted U-shaped way on education. To maintain a given...

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Bilateral donors' aid allocation decisions: A tree-dimensional panel analysis

Berthélemy, Jean-Claude; Tichit, Ariane - 2002

The present paper adds to the already large existing literature on aid distribution as it runs an equation on bilateral aid allocation on a very rich dataset, covering 20 years (1980-99), 22 donors and 137 recipients, which permits a three-dimensional panel study (recipient-year-donor) and...

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Income distribution changes and their impact in the post- World War II period

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Addison, Tony; Kiiski, Sampsa - 2003

This paper analyses the trends in within-country inequality during the post- World War II period, with particular … trends in 73 countries accounting for 80 per cent of the world’s population and 91 per cent of world GDP-PPP. The paper …, it marks a clear departure from that observed during the first 30 years of the post-World War II period during which …

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