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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264330
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265093
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2008
There is a well-known debate about the roles of geography versus institutions in explaining the long-term development … institutions and found that this supported their line of reasoning. We believe there is value-added to consider this debate at the … mechanisms from geography via institutions to economic development outcomes. In particular, we examine the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010300161
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Endogenous Institutional Change and Economic Development: A Micro-Level Analysis of Transmission Channels
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
There is a well-known debate about the role of institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. We … believe there is value-added to consider the institutions hypothesis at the micro level within a country to analyze the exact … the emergence of institutions relevant for agricultural development, thereby incorporating insights from the literatures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329965
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Endogenous institutional change and economic development : a micro-level analysis of transmission channels
Grimm, Michael; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
There is a well-known debate about the role of institutions in explaining the long-term development of countries. We … believe there is value-added to consider the institutions hypothesis at the micro level within a country to analyze the exact … the emergence of institutions relevant for agricultural development, thereby incorporating insights from the literatures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010255777
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Slavery, education, and inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality. In other words, those counties that displayed a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278600
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Short-Term Impacts of Targeted Cash Grants and Business Development Services: Experimental Evidence from Entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882468
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Short-term impacts of targeted cash grants and business development services: experimental evidence from entrepreneurs in Burkina Faso
Grimm, Michael; Soubeiga, Sidiki; Weber, Michael - 2021
Most support programs targeted at small firms in low- and middle-income countries fail to generate transformative effects at a large scale due to bad targeting, too little flexibility, and the limited size of the support, among others. This paper assesses the short-term effects of a randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705581
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Rainfall Risk and Fertility: Evidence from Farm Settlements during the American Demographic Transition
Grimm, Michael - 2016
shows that this effect is reduced if risk management devices such as irrigation systems, formal financial institutions or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584666
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Food price inflation and children's schooling
Grimm, Michael - 2008
I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271077