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Bertocchi, Graziella - 2019

This chapter reviews the growing body of research in economics which concentrates on the education gender gap and its … roughly goes from 1850 to the 1940s and documents the deep determinants of the early phase of female education expansion … contemporaneous gender gaps in education, from the 1950s to the present day, accounting for several alternative measures of attainment …

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American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930

Murtin, Fabrice - 2009

This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the foreign-born US population by age and by country of origin, while combining data on the flow of...

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Subjective Well‐Being and Income : Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

Stevenson, Betsey - 2013

Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Gone with the Storm : Rainfall Shocks and Household Well-Being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier E. - 2015

This paper investigates the causal consequences of Tropical Storm Agatha (2010) – the strongest tropical storm ever to strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept – on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative effects, particularly among urban households. Per...

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Symbolic Values, Occupational Choice, and Economic Development

Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

Channeling human resources into the right occupations has historically been a key to economic prosperity. Occupational choices are not only driven by the material rewards associated with the various occupations, but also by the esteem that they confer. We propose a model of endogenous growth in...

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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures

Galor, Oded - 2016

This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...

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Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth

Chatterjee, Santanu; Giuliano, Paola; Kaya, Ilker - 2021

. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the … framework, we show that the substitution away from domestic government investment is higher than from government consumption …

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Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Andonova, Veneta; Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2021

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in...

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Is the Chinese Growth Miracle Built to Last?

Prasad, Eswar S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Is the Chinese growth miracle - a remarkably high growth rate sustained for over twodecades - likely to persist or are the seeds of its eventual demise contained in the policiesthat have boosted growth? For all its presumed flaws, the particular approach tomacroeconomic and structural policies...

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