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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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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Allwine, Melanie - 2013

Adopted on September 8 of 2000, the United Nations Millennium Declaration stated as its first goal that countries "…[further] resolve to halve, by the year 2015, the proportion of the world's people whose income is less than one dollar a day and the proportion of people who suffer from...

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Cooperativeness and Impatience in the Tragedy of the Commons

Fehr, Ernst; Leibbrandt, Andreas - 2021

reduce the current and the future yield for both others and themselves. Accordingly, economic theory predicts that more … fishermen who exhibit a higher propensity for cooperation in a laboratory public goods experiment, and those who show more … patience in a laboratory time preference experiment, exploit the fishing grounds less in their daily lives. Moreover, because …

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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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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

This paper examines fungibility as a possible explanation for the missing link between foreign aid and economic growth. The composition of aid plays a crucial role in determining the composition of government spending and, consequently, the magnitude of fungibility and its impact on growth....

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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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The Economics of Replication

Müller-Langer, Frank - 2017

Replication studies are considered a hallmark of good scientific practice. Yet they are treated among researchers as an ideal to be professed but not practiced. To provide incentives and favorable boundary conditions for replication practice, the main stakeholders need to be aware of what drives...

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