Search Results - subject:"Comparative Development"

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - 2010

comparative development, as it marks the onset of the take-off to sustained growth. Neoclassical growth theory presupposes a take …-off, and explains comparative development by variations in (subsequent) investment rates. The present analysis integrates these …

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The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2010

This research argues that deep-rooted factors, determined tens of thousands of years ago, had a signi.cant e¤ect on the course of economic development from the dawn of human civilization to the contemporary era. It advances and empirically establishes the hypothesis that in the course of the...

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The electric revolution in Latin America

Tafunell, Xavier - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

Latin America participated in the electric revolution which profoundly transformed the most developed Western economies between 1880 and 1930. The electrification of Latin America began relatively soon after these economies, but it was incapable of keeping up with them. Public electric lighting...

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The History Augmented Solow model

Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Strulik, Holger - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2010

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The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development

Auer, Raphael - 2009

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I develop an empirical strategy that...

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory

Galor, Oded - 2009

capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the …

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein Lecture –Comparative Economic Development: Insights from Unified Growth Theory

Galor, Oded - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2009

capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identi.es the …

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China's economy, India's economy, comparative development

Dougherty, Sean; Valli, Vittorio - In: European Journal of Comparative Economics 6 (2009) 1, pp. 53-55

Editors' Introduction to the symposium "Comparing China and India: Structural Change and Development"

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Malthusian dynamism and the rise of Europe: Make war, not love

Voth, Joachim; Voigtländer, Nico - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

This paper argues that Malthusian regimes are capable of sustained changes in per capita incomes. Shifting mortality and fertility schedules can lead to different steady-state income levels, with long periods of growth during the transition. Europe checked the downward pressure on wages through...

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The colonial and geographic origins of comparative development

Auer, Raphael A. - 2009

The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development Raphael Auer Working Paper 09 … institutions. The Colonial and Geographic Origins of Comparative Development ∗ Raphael Auer † 16 June 2009 Abstract While the …, Institutions, Geography, Comparative Development, Colonialism JEL Codes: O11, P16, P51, R11, N50, F54 ∗ This is a substantially …

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