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Tertilt, Michele; Doepke, Matthias; Montenbruck, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Two centuries ago, in most countries around the world, women were unable to vote, had no say over their own children or property, and could not obtain a divorce. Women have gradually gained rights in many areas of life, and this legal expansion has been closely intertwined with economic...

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The Inverted U-Shaped Relationship between Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Ashraf, Nava; Delfino, Alexia; Glaeser, Edward L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

. This paper presents a model of entrepreneurship in which women face disadvantages, including discrimination from workers … in middle-income countries, where the returns to entrepreneurship are high enough to offset gender-based costs and both … more usually in industries with low levels of skilled workers. Despite the entrepreneurship rate's reversal of the U …

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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?

Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008-09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public sentiment in the largest economies over the past five years suggest the beginning of a new...

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The Social Costs of Sovereign Default

Farah-Yacoub, Juan P.; Luckner, Clemens von <Graf>; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper investigates the economic and social consequences of sovereign default on external debt. We focus on the crises' impact on real per capita GDP, infant mortality, life expectancy, poverty headcounts, and calorie supply per capita. After methodological exclusions, the sample covers 221...

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The Global Macro Database : A New International Macroeconomic Dataset

Mueller, Karsten; Xu, Chenzi; Lehbib, Mohamed; Chen, Ziliang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

The Global Macro Database is an open-source, continuously updated dataset of macroeconomic statistics that unifies and extends existing resources. By harmonizing and integrating data from 32 major contemporary sources--including the IMF, World Bank, and OECD--with historical records from 78...

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International capital flows and development : financial openness matters

Reinhardt, Dennis; Ricci, Luca Antonio; Tressel, Thierry - In: Journal of international economics 91 (2013) 2, pp. 235-251

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RECONSIDERING EXPECTATIONS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AFTER

Fogel, Robert W. - 2005

At the close of World War II, there were wide-ranging debates about the future of economic developments. Historical experience has since shown that these forecasts were uniformly too pessimistic. Expectations for the American economy focused on the likelihood of secular stagnation; this topic...

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...

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Linkages and Economic Development

Bartelme, Dominick - 2015

Specialization is a powerful source of productivity gains, but how production networks at the industry level are related to aggregate productivity in the data is an open question. We construct a database of input-output tables covering a broad spectrum of countries and times, develop a...

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Occupational Choice and Development

Eeckhout, Jan - 2007

The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output gains are U-shaped: A worldwide labor market...

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