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Do Resource Windfalls Improve the Standard of Living in Sub-Saharan African Countries? : Evidence from a Panel of Countries
Lee, Munseob - 2015
We examine the impact of resource windfall on the standard of living both in the short-run and long-run, using a sample of 130 countries, 1963-2007. Then, we systematically investigate the effect of resource windfall on welfare in three different groups of countries: We find that in the...
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Global Innovation Contests
Dinopoulos, Elias; Syropoulos, Constantinos; … - 2023
outsourcing of investment services. Globalization, captured by a move from autarky to the integrated-world equilibrium, leads to … globalization on the skill premium and fully-endogenous growth. Higher quality products are endogenously discovered through … convergence of wages and growth rates. Globalization and long-run growth are either substitutes or complements depending on a …
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Is Education Neglected in Natural Resources-Rich Countries? An Intergenerational Approach in Africa
Atsebi, Jean-Marc; Ouedraogo, Rasmané; Séri, Regina - 2022
,890 districts. We find that mineral discoveries and productions positively affect educational IM for primary education in Africa for …
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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Africa Since 1920
Ouedraogo, Rasmane; Syrichas, Nicolas - 2022
mobility in Africa …
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Launching Export Accelerations in Latin America and the World
Cerra, Valerie - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of sustained accelerations in goods and services exports. Strong predictors of export takeoffs include domestic and structural indicators such as lower macroeconomic uncertainty, improved quality of institutions, a depreciated exchange rate, and...
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Global Evidence on Misperceptions and Preferences for Redistribution
Feichtmayer, Jennifer Elena; Gründler, Klaus - 2021
Individuals often hold erroneous beliefs about their socio-economic status relative to others. We develop a new machine learning technique to measure these misperceptions and use large-scale international survey data to compute status misperception for 241,757 households from 97 countries (24...
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Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports
Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana M.; Merchan, Federico; … - 2021
This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215669
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The new stylized facts about income and subjective well-being
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2013
In recent decades economists have turned their attention to data that asks people how happy or satisfied they are with their lives. Much of the early research concluded that the role of income in determining well-being was limited, and that only income relative to others was related to...
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What is Real and What is Not in the Global FDI Network?
Damgaard, Jannick - 2020
Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers withenormous inward and outward investment positions. This paper uses several new datasources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while disentangling realinvestment and phantom investment...
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Globalization and the New Normal
Candelon, Bertrand - 2018
to be determined by globalization. Relying on a non-linear dynamic panelrepresentation, it reconciles the earlier results … in the literature regarding the two oppositenarratives of the effects of globalization on output growth. Countries … experience higher growth, onaverage, the more open and integrated they are into the world. However, once they reach a …
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