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The Interplay of Economic, Social and Political Fragmentation

Bosworth, Steven - 2019

This paper examines how skill-biased growth can generate economic fragmentation (income dis-parities) that give rise to social fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible social identities and values), which generate political fragmentation (the adoption of increasingly incompatible...

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Corruption Beyond the Glass Ceiling : Do Women Entrepreneurs Perceive Corruption Differently?

Goel, Rajeev K. - 2019

Adding to the corruption-gender nexus, this paper contributes across several dimensions: (a) measurement of corruption by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample...

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Effects of Emigration on Gender Norms in Countries of Origin

Azarnert, Leonid V.; Yakubenko, Slava - 2021

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that emigration to countries with low (high) levels of...

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Crisóstomo Wainstock, … - 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning diﬀerentials reﬂect variations in productive traits among individuals, a signiﬁcant component of the diﬀerences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to...

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Precipitation and Economic Growth

Berlemann, Michael; Wenzel, Daniela - 2018

As the ongoing process of global warming goes along with changes in both mean precipitation and precipitation extremes, the scientific interest in the effects of rainfall on economic prosperity has recently grown significantly. However, the few existing empirical studies of short-run growth...

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A Global Compass for the Great Divergence : Emissions vs. Production Centers of Gravity 1820-2008

Sauter, Caspar - 2019

We construct the world’s centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five …th century, after World War I for CO2 emissions, after World War II for GDP. Since then, both centers are moving eastward …

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Spatial Inequality, Geography and Economic Activity

Achten, Sandra - 2019

We study the effect of spatial inequality on economic activity. Given that the relationship is highly simultaneous in nature, we use exogenous variation in geographic features to construct an instrument for spatial inequality, which is independent from any man-made factors. Inequality measures...

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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019

growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank … and by The Standardized World Income Inequality Database are seen to be correlated with economic diversification, the rule … in the World Values Survey, and democracy, all of which are good for growth as reflected in the purchasing power of per …

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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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Great Volatility and Great Moderation

Grazzini, Jakob - 2019

We investigate the sources of the great changes in GDP volatility observed from 1966 to 2000. We develop a general equilibrium model and calibrate it to US data in order to characterize the contribution of micro level productivity shocks, inter-sectoral linkages and households' behavior to...

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