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This study examines the effect of climate on citywide labour productivity in the Accra city region. We use data from … Ghana's Integrated Business and Establishment Survey dataset, climate data at the sub-city level from Ghana Meteorological … African cities seek to understand the impact of climate change and how to integrate climate change considerations into urban …
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We couple a one-dimensional energy balance climate model with heat transportation across latitudes, with an economic …
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Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. This is because its important economic sector … biophysical impacts of climate change necessitates proactive adaptation in agriculture. This, however, breeds questions of …
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Ethiopia is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change. This is because its important economic sector … biophysical impacts of climate change necessitates proactive adaptation in agriculture. This, however, breeds questions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689647
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388174
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
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This paper presents new evidence on urbanization using sub-county data for the United States from 1880-2000 and …
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An important stylized fact about African economic development is the phenomenon of urbanization without structural …
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In this paper, we study the effect of exogenous global crop price changes on migration from agricultural and non-agricultural households in Sub-Saharan Africa. We show that, similar to the effect of positive local weather shocks, the effect of a locally-relevant global crop price increase on...
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