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Landlockedness and economic development : analyzing subnational panel data and exploring mechanisms

Jetter, Michael; Mösle, Saskia; Stadelmann, David - 2017

This paper revisits the hypothesis that landlocked regions are systematically poorer than regions with ocean access, using panel data for 1,527 subnational regions in 83 nations from 1950-2014. This data structure allows us to exploit within-country-time variation only (e.g., regional variation...

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How efficient is the East German economy? : an exploration with micro data

Funke, Michael; Rahn, Jörg - 2000

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the East German economy at the firm level using an unbalanced panel over the transition period 1994 to 1998. We adopt a translog stochastic frontier model to estimate technical efficiency in eastern and western Germany. The results...

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Productivity differences in OECD countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests … data. Third, when the null hypothesis of non convergence is rejected, a second test determines the number of converging … countries. Based on a sample of thirteen OECD countries our results show evidence of convergence in three out of six sectors …

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Corrupt local government as resource farmers : the helping hand and the grabbing hand

Dalgic, Engin; Long, Ngo Van - 2004

We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second...

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; 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...

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Economic gains for US states from educational reform

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

There is limited existing evidence justifying the economic case for state education policy. Using newly-developed measures of the human capital of each state that allow for internal migration and foreign immigration, we estimate growth regressions that incorporate worker skills. We find that...

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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012

Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...

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Culture and institutions : economic development in the regions of Europe

Tabellini, Guido Enrico (contributor) - 2005

Does culture have a causal effect on economic development? The data on European regions suggest that it does. Culture is measured by indicators of individual values and beliefs, such as trust and respect for others, and confidence in individual self-determination. To isolate the exogenous...

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Does culture cause economic development? : a reassessment of the evidence from European regions

Edwards, Jeremy S. S. - 2012

This paper shows that Tabellini's recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini's claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...

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Local economic growth and infant mortality

Kammerlander, Andreas; Schulze, Günther G. - 2021

We show, for the first time, a causal effect of local economic growth on infant mortality. We use geo-referenced data for non-migrating mothers from 46 developing countries and 128 DHS survey rounds and combine it with nighttime luminosity data at a granular level. Using mother fixed effects we...

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