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Broadband infrastructure and economic growth
Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - 2009
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273811
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Foreign Aid in Areas of Limited Statehood
Dreher, Axel; Lang, Valentin F.; Ziaja, Sebastian - 2017
We review the aid effectiveness literature to assess whether foreign aid given to areas of limited statehood can be expected to promote economic and social outcomes in the recipient country. We distinguish different types of aid, motives for granting it, recipient country policies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615895
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The Bounty of the Sea and Long-Run Development
Dalgaard, Carl-Johan; Knudsen, Anne Sofie B.; Selaya, Pablo - 2015
What is the long run impact on development from differences in subsistence strategies during pre-industrial times? Whereas this question has been explored from the point of view of agriculture, remarkably little attention has been paid to the complementary strategy of relying on marine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388201
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Broadband internet: An information superhighway to sex crime?
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - 2012
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this … exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables estimates show that internet use is associated with a … highlights three mechanisms for how internet use may affect reported sex crime, namely a reporting effect, a matching effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283573
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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cariolle, Joël - 2018
percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent’s population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018106
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Investment in Quality Upgrade and Regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Vuong, Cuong Hung - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179873
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Investment in Quality Upgrade and Regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841934
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The Globalisation-Welfare State Nexus : Evidence from Asia
Potrafke, Niklas - 2019
How globalisation influences social expenditure has been examined for industrialized countries. Globalisation has often been shown to be positively associated with social expenditure in established industrialized countries, a finding that corroborates the compensation hypothesis. Scholars have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892254
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Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States
Hanushek, Eric A.; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015
Although many U.S. state policies presume that human capital is important for state economic development, there is little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307079
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Ageing and productivity growth: are there macro-level cohort effects of human capital?
Werding, Martin - 2008
Slower growth of the labour force and an increase in old-age dependency will reduce the growth of aggregate output and output per capita in many developed countries. However, a major question is whether there is any systematic link between demographics and the productivity of those who will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264296