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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Empirical Investigation

Acemoglu, Daron - 2000

We exploit differences in the mortality rates faced by European colonialists to estimate the effect of institutions on economic performance. Our argument is that Europeans adopted very different colonization policies in different colonies, with different associated institutions. The choice of...

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Geography and Economic Development

Gallup, John Luke - 1998

This paper addresses the complex relationship between geography and macroeconomic growth. We investigate the ways in which geography may matter directly for growth, controlling for economic policies and institutions, as well as the effects of geography on policy choices and institutions. We find...

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Does a Leapfrogging Growth Strategy Raise Growth Rate? Some International Evidence

Wang, Zhi - 2010

While openness to trade is a well-recognized hallmark of many successful emerging market economies known as "growth miracles," another component of the growth model is a leapfrogging strategy - the use of policies to guide the industrial structural transformation ahead of a country's factor...

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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity

Hoff, Karla - 2010

framework, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth matter not just directly but because …

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Commodity prices, commodity currencies, and global economic developments

Groen, Jan J. J. - 2010

In this paper we seek to produce forecasts of commodity price movements that can systematically improve on naive statistical benchmarks, and revisit the forecasting performance of changes in commodity currencies as efficient predictors of commodity prices, a view emphasized in the recent...

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Occupational Choice and Development

Eeckhout, Jan - 2007

The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a … globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …

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World Technology Usage Lags

Comin, Diego A. - 2006

across the world. We do so by calculating how many years ago these technologies were used in the U.S. at the same intensity …

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Death and Development

Lorentzen, Peter - 2005

Analyzing a variety of cross-national and sub-national data, we argue that high adult mortality reduces economic growth by shortening time horizons. Higher adult mortality is associated with increased levels of risky behavior, higher fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital....

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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'

Deaton, Angus - 2005

In this essay, I review Robert Fogel's The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100 which is concerned with the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history of health, but for explaining aspects of current health,...

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RECONSIDERING EXPECTATIONS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AFTER

Fogel, Robert W. - 2005

At the close of World War II, there were wide-ranging debates about the future of economic developments. Historical … the likelihood of secular stagnation; this topic continued to be debated throughout the post-World War II expansion … growth in less developed countries were contradicted when during the mid- and late-1970s, fertility rates in third world …

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