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Agriculture, transportation and the timing of urbanization : global analysis at the grid cell level

Motamed, Mesbah J.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Masters, … - 2014

urbanization occurs sooner in places with higher agricultural potential and comparatively lower transport costs, using worldwide … thresholds of urbanization. Controlling for unobserved heterogeneity across countries through fixed effects and using a variety … of spatial econometric techniques, we find a robust association between earlier urbanization and agro …

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Exploration of the Kyoto Protocol and Doha Round on decarbonising between high-income OECD and developing countries

Brahmasrene, Tantatape; Lee, Jung Wan - In: International journal of green economics 12 (2018) 3/4, pp. 322-344

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The deep determinants of the middle-income trap

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

The fundamental, underlying factors of development are often neglected when analyzing the question why countries experience a growth slowdown at the middle-income range. Although these so-called `deep determinants' such as geography and institutions have been found to be decisive for the break...

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The soviet economy : the late 1930s in historical perspective

Davies, R. W.; Harrison, Mark; Chlevnjuk, Oleg Vitalʹevič - 2018 - This version: 1 March 2018

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Long-term effects of equal sharing: evidence from inheritance rules for land

Bartels, Charlotte; Jäger, Simon; Obergruber, Natalie - 2020

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....

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Driving over the hill : car intensity during structural transformation

Mac Domhnaill, Ciarán - 2024

This paper examines the number of licensed private cars in the economy per unit of GDP, or car intensity, as an intrinsic component of car use that may be underlying the observed peak car phenomenon. Using data on 88 countries from 1950 to 2010, I demonstrate that car intensity evolves in a...

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