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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …

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Geography vs. Institutions at the Village Level

Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - Center for Globalization and Europeanization of the … - 2008

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Slavery, Education, and Inequality

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development: In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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Race v. Suffrage: The Determinants of Development in Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-2000 period. Our main conclusion is that race, rather than political institutions and education policies, is the main force …

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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De Jure and De Facto Determinants of Power: Evidence from Mississippi

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We evaluate the empirical relevance of de facto vs. de jure determinants of political power in the U.S. South between the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. We apply a variety of estimation techniques to a previously unexploited dataset on voter registration by...

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The Age of Mass Migration: Economic and Institutional Determinants

Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

a major role in the determination of this historical event, but that the quality of institutions also mattered. We … evaluate separately the impact of political institutions linked to democracy and suffrage and of those institutions more … find that both sets of institutions contributed to this event, even after controlling for their potential endogeneity …

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Growth, History, or Institutions? What Explains State Fragility in Sub-Saharan Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella; Guerzoni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

, demographic, geographic and istitutional regressors, we find that institutions, and in particular the civil liberties index and … institutions are accounted for. …

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