implementation of national health policies, or more favorable geography. The paper uses micro level data for children under five to … geography – best explains Ghana’s mortality advantage. The results of the analysis indicate that wealth variables are not able … to explain any of the child mortality variation between Ghana and its neighbors. Geography and health policy variables …

relocation processes in automobile components suppliers. These factors help explain changes in production geography in the sector … institutional environment are the main barriers to such processes of mobility, and may also determine the geographical destination …

geography including distance from the equator and a dummy for sub-Saharan Africa. …

We find an undiscovered effect of geography on the choices of writing system in ancient civilizations that in turn …

. Geography determined where Europeans originally settled: in Northeastern USA, along those segments of the Atlantic coast where … density in 1900; and some where different sets of geography variables (e.g. temperature) are used as instruments. Our findings …

(physical and political geography) and how much can be derived from endogenous second nature factors (man-made agglomeration …

highlighted in literature: institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The “Institutions school” assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the “Geography school” considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …