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Intergenerational Progress in Educational Attainment when Institutional Change Really Matters: a Case Study of Franco-Americans vs. French-Speaking Quebeckers
Parent, Daniel - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009
Quebec and the fact that Franco-Americans were fairly successful in replicating the same educational institutions as the ones … made profound changes to its educational institutions, particularly in the post-secondary system, in the mid-to-late 60's …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015277
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Sibling gender, inheritance customs and educational attainment : evidence from matrilineal and patrilineal societies
Collins, Matthew - 2022
Using data from 27 sub-Saharan African countries, I identify the causal effect of sibling gender on education and how it varies according to inheritance customs. Boys who inherit their father's property experience no effect of sibling gender, while boys who do not inherit experience a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270266
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Beyond Institutionalism: There Lies a Good Set of Trade Policies
Mamoon, Dawood; Murshed, S. Mansoob - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to empirically examine the contribution of trade liberalisation to differences in the level of prosperity across nations. We compare this with the relative contribution of institutional capacity to prosperity, as well as the role of human capital accumulation in that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876646
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: A Solution to the Debate on Settler Mortality Rates
Auer, Raphael - Schweizerische Nationalbank (SNB) - 2007
my instruments are significant predictors of mortality and are otherwise excludable to institutions. Among other things … mortality strongly affected institutions in former colonies, yet it had no effect on institutions in the rest of the world. This … variable estimations, I show that also the relation between institutions and income is highly significant and that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008925019
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Angus Maddison and Development Economics
Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
expansion on the non-Western world and 6. the role of institutions in economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712285
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Introduction to the REI Special Issue: "The Role of History, Biogeography, and Institutions for Comparative Development"
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Presbitero, Andrea Filippo - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 5 (2014) 2
The importance of history, culture, and biogeography in shaping current institutions and the long-run process of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165219
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Angus Maddison and Development Economics
Szirmai, Adam - United Nations University, Maastricht Economic and … - 2011
expansion on the non-Western world and 6. the role of institutions in economic development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195550
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Book Review - "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
Can, Raif - In: Central Bank Review 13 (2013) 1, pp. 83-88
institutions are the fundamental cause of the income inequality in today’s world. They make a distinction between inclusive and … extractive institutions in terms of their impact on a nation’s development. While inclusive political and economic institutions … spur economic prosperity, extractive ones explain why some nations are poor. This book intensely discusses how institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941574
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Why it matters what people think: Beliefs, legal origins and the deep roots of trust
Wahl, Fabian - Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung, … - 2012
This paper analyses the connection between legal origins and generalized trust. Based on recent results of institutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955033
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The political economy of rural property rights and the persistence of the dual economy
Fergusson, Leopoldo - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 167-181
Rural areas often have more than one regime of property rights and production. Large, private-property farms owned by powerful landowners coexist with subsistence peasants who farm small plots with limited property rights. At the same time, there is broad consensus that individual,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679306