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Body Mass, Nutrition, and Disease : Current Net Nutrition During Us Economic Development

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material welfare are scarce or unreliable, the use of average stature and body mass index (BMI) values is common. BMI reflects the current difference between calories consumed, calories required for work, and to withstand the physical environment. This study evaluates...

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Health and Economic Growth : Reconciling the Micro and Macro Evidence

Bloom, David E.; Kotschy, Rainer; Prettner, Klaus; … - 2022

Economists use micro-based and macro-based approaches to assess the macroeconomic return to population health. The … the macroeconomic return to health. We reconcile the two approaches by controlling for the indirect effects of health … of health. Our results show that the macroeconomic return to health lies in the range of plausible microeconomic …

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Priority Roads : The Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2019

Africa’s interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...

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Top Lights - Bright Cities and Their Contribution to Economic Development

Bluhm, Richard - 2019

The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...

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Did Caselaw Foster England's Economic Development During the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence

Murrell, Peter; Grajzl, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India : Evidence from Night Lights Data

Ranjan, Priya; Talathi, Karan - 2021

indirect British rule. The large gap persists even after including other controls such as educational attainment, health, and …

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Devotion and Development : Religiosity, Education, and Economic Progress in 19th-Century France

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2020

This paper studies when religion can hamper diffusion of knowledge and economic development and through which mechanism. I examine Catholicism in France during the Second Industrial Revolution (1870-1914). In this period, technology became skill-intensive, leading to the introduction of...

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Diasporas and Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence and Policy

Bahar, Dany - 2020

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital"

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The role of the state in economic development

Tabellini, Guido - 2004

This paper discusses the recent literature on the role of the state in economic development. It concludes that government incentives to enact sound policies are key to economic success. It also discusses the evidence on what happens after episodes of economic and political liberalizations,...

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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship, and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites

Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker - 2005

This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...

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