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Geography, institutions, and the making of comparative development

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La...

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Geography rules too! : Economic development and the geography of institutions

Bosker, Maarten (contributor); Garretsen, Harry (contributor) - 2006

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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century France

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019

This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the Second Industrial Revolution...

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Did caselaw foster England's economic development during the industrial revolution? : data and evidence

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, 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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The political geography of cities

Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021

, such as market access, and that the effect is greater in countries where urbanization and industrialization occurred later …

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Social interaction and urban sprawl

Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); Largey, Ann G. (contributor) - 2006

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Migrants and firms : evidence from China

Imbert, Clément; Seror, Marlon; Zhang, Yifan; … - 2018

This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data on manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2006 and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration due to agricultural price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs...

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Banking and industrialization

Heblich, Stephan; Trew, Alex - 2015

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...

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Urbanization and economic development : a tale of two barriers

Bond, Eric W.; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2016

n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …

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Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century

Jacks, David S.; Novy, Dennis - 2018

We examine the evolution of market potential and its role in driving economic growth over the long twentieth century. Theoretically, we exploit a structural gravity model to derive a closed-form solution for a widely-used measure of market potential. We are thus able to express market potential...

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