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Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development

Amodio, Francesco; Medina, Pamela; Morlacco, Monica - 2022

implications for industrial development. Using data from Peru, we document substantial employer concentration and high self …

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Economic Foundations of Contraceptive Transitions: Theories and a Review of the Evidence

Karra, Mahesh; Wilde, Joshua - 2023

We review the foundations of the economic development-contraception nexus, focusing on the pathways through which … economic development and contraceptive dynamics are mediated. Using global data, we document the correlations between economic … development and contraception transitions over time and across geographies. We briefly examine the evidence of the role of …

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Africa's Industrialization Prospects: A Fresh Look

Naudé, Wim; Tregenna, Fiona - 2023

This paper identifies the determinants of industrialization in 18 African countries, 1965 to 2018, using various estimators and applying a battery of robustness checks. Industrialization in Africa is driven by historical legacies such as colonialism; geographical factors such as rainfall and...

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(De Facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Land Tenure in Sub-Saharan Africa

Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2023

We study the role of proximity to historical ethnic borders in determining individual land ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Following an instrumental variable strategy, we document that individuals have a lower likelihood of owning land near historical ethnic borders. In particular, the...

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Melancholy Hues: The Futility of Green Growth and Degrowth, and the Inevitability of Societal Collapse

Naudé, Wim - 2023

The economic expansion witnessed in the last 0,08% of modern human history is an anomalous event. It has been compared to a "rocket ship that took off five seconds ago, and nobody knows where it's going." This paper explores the destiny of this rocket ship. It shows that economic growth cannot...

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Labor Market Power and Development

Armangué-Jubert, Tristany; Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, … - 2023

countries. We structurally estimate a model of oligopsony with free entry for countries at different stages of development and … the top of the development ladder. …

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Economic Mobility and Fairness in a Developing Country: Evidence from Peru

Castro, Juan Francisco; Yamada, Gustavo; Medina, Santiago; … - 2023

Periods of rapid economic growth in developing countries have been well studied in terms of poverty and income inequality reduction, but much less is known about the performance of these countries in terms of economic mobility. We study intragenerational mobility in Peru using an asset-based...

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"Romanticizing Penniless Entrepreneurs?" The Relationship between Start-Ups and Human Wellbeing across Countries

Naudé, Wim A.; Amorós, José Ernesto; Cristi M., Oscar - 2013

We study the effect of entrepreneurship and its allocation between necessity and opportunity entrepreneurship on three indicators of countries' wellbeing: monetary wellbeing, non-monetary wellbeing and our own indicator of a country's ability to translate economic growth into non-monetary...

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Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: Theory, Evidence and Policy

Naudé, Wim A. - 2013

This paper provides an overview of the state of the art of the intersection of development economics and … entrepreneurship. Given the relative neglect of entrepreneurship by development scholars it deals with (i) recent theoretical insights … from the intersection of entrepreneurship and development studies; (ii) the empirical evidence on the relationship between …

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Disease and Development Revisited

Bloom, David E.; Canning, David; Fink, Guenther - 2013

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...

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