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Early starts, reversals and catchup in the process of economic development

Chanda, Areendam; Putterman, Louis - 2004

Early states like China, India, Italy and Greece have been experiencing more rapid economic growth in recent decades than have later-comers to agriculture and statehood like New Guinea, the Congo, and Uruguay. We show that more rapid growth by early starters has been the norm in economic...

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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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India's economic growth: From socialist rate of growth to Bharatiya rate of growth

Virmani, Arvind - 2004

Paper reviews India's growth performance since independence. Phrases suchas "Hindu Rate of Growth," sometimes make a telling comment and expose obscureeconomic data to a wider audience, but they can just as readily obscure reality byfocussing attention on the wrong issue. There is nothing in the...

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What Can Be Learned About the Economies of China and India from Purchasing Power Comparisons?

Heston, Alan - 2008

Comparisons of India and China have been made for over 50 years. This paper focuses on purchasing power estimates in China and India in the 2005 round of the UN International Comparison Programme (ICP) that was coordinated by the World Bank, the Regional Banks and Economic Commissions. The 2005...

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The resource curse and its potential reversal

Boschini, Anne; Pettersson, Jan; Roine, Jesper - 2012

Several recent papers suggest that the negative association between natural resource intensity and economic growth can be reversed if institutional quality is high enough. We try to understand this result in more detail by decomposing the resource measure, using alternative measures of both...

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The role early-life conditions in the cognitive decline due to adverse events later in life

van den Berg, Gerard J.; Deeg, Dorly J. H.; Lindeboom, … - 2010

Serious life events, such as the loss or the onset of a chronic condition may influence cognitive functioning. We examine whether the cognitive impact of such events is stronger if conditions very early in life were adverse, using Dutch lnogitudinal data of older persons. We exploit exogenous...

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The Effect of Health on Income: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Commuting Accidents

Halla, Martin; Zweimüller, Martina - 2011

This paper interprets accidents occurring on the way to and from work as negative health shocks to identify the causal … effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … health shocks are quasi-randomly assigned. A fixed-effects difference-in-differences approach estimates a negative and …

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The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

Brunello, Giorgio; Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; … - 2011

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

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The effect of superstition on health: Evidence from the Taiwanese Ghost month

Halla, Martin; Liu, Chia-Lun; Liu, Jin-tan - 2019

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

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Socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on earnings: Evidence from population-wide data on Swedish workers

Lundborg, Petter; Nilsson, Martin; Vikström, Johan - 2011

In this paper, we test for the existence of socioeconomic heterogeneity in the effect of health shocks on labor market … hospitalizations as a measure of health shocks. Our results suggest large heterogeneity in the effects, where low educated individuals … suffer relatively more from a given health shock. This result holds across a wide range of different health shocks and our …

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