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Customary Norms, Inheritance, and Human Capital: Evidence from a Reform of the Matrilineal System in Ghana

La Ferrara, Eliana; Milazzo, Annamaria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the effects of descent rules on human capital accumulation. We exploit a policy experiment in Ghana that introduced minimum quotas for the land that parents should devolve on their children. This policy differentially affected ethnic groups depending on their descent rules:...

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Geography, Transparency and Institutions

Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We propose a theory by which geographic variations in the transparency of the production process explain cross-regional differences in the scale of the state, in its hierarchical structure, and in property rights over land. The key linkage between geography and these institutions, we posit, is...

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Transparency, Appropriability and the Early State

Mayshar, Joram; Moav, Omer; Neeman, Zvika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We propose a general theory that explains the extent of the state and accounts for related institutions as byproducts of the state's extractive technology. We posit further that this extractive technology is determined by the transparency of the production technology. This theory is applied to...

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Urban land use

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business centres, various dimensions of heterogeneity, and durable housing. After presenting the theory and distilling its...

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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...

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The growth of cities

Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Why do cities grow in population, surface area, and income per person? Which cities grow faster and why? To these questions, the urban growth literature has offered a variety of answers. Within an integrated framework, this chapter reviews key theories with implications for urban growth. It then...

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Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States

Overman, Henry G; Puga, Diego; Turner, Matthew A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper decomposes the growth in land occupied by residences in the United States to give the relative contributions of changing demographics versus increases in the land area used by individual households. Between 1976 and 1992 the amount of residential land in the United States grew 47.5%...

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Is the Export-Led Growth Hypothesis Valid for Industrialized Countries?

Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The comovement between exports and productivity observed in many countries suggests a direct link between these two … attempts to examine this relationship, while recent trade theory suggests that the relationship between trade and productivity … suggest that exports, productivity and the terms of trade move together in the long run in all countries except the United …

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Productivity, Seniority and Wages: New Evidence from Personnel Data

Flabbi, Luca; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

would reflect higher productivity of more senior workers. If this were true, the observation of an effect of seniority on … wages would depend on the presence of controls for individual productivity. In this paper we replicate, using personnel data …' evaluations were used as productivity indicators. Since the validity of supervisors' evaluations as measures of productivity has …

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Products and Productivity

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

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