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  1. Higher economic growth in poor countries, lower migration flows to the OECD
    revisiting the migration hump with panel data
    Author: Bencek, David; Schneiderheinze, Claas
    Published: 06/2020
    Publisher:  Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel

    Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the "migration hump" is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is... more

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    Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges. Although merely based on cross-sectional evidence, the "migration hump" is often treated as a causal relationship. Since the peak is located at rather high per capita incomes of 6000-10 000 USD policy makers in rich destination countries worry that supporting economic development in poor origin countries might increase migration. In this paper we systematically test whether the migration hump holds up to more scrutiny, finding that the crosssectional pattern is misleading. Using 35 years of migration flow data from 198 countries of origin to OECD destinations, we successfully reproduce the hump-shape in the cross-section. However, more rigorous fixed effects panel estimations that exploit the variation over time consistently show a negative association between income and emigration. This result is independent of the level of income a country starts out at and thus casts doubt on any causal interpretation of the migration hump.

     
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    Series: Kiel working paper ; no. 2145 (June 2020)
    Subjects: Internationale Migration; Ursache; Kausalität; Entwicklung; Wirtschaftswachstum; Entwicklungshilfe; Statistische Analyse; International migration; economic development; development assistance
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  2. Development of small and medium entrepreneurship in the Republic Of Croatia
    Author: Radlović, Ivana; Hunjet, Anica; Kozina, Goran
    Published: 2020

    Entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic growth and a generator of employment opportunities in all modern economies across the world. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of modern entrepreneurship. In the Republic of Croatia, SMEs... more

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    Entrepreneurship is a key driver of economic growth and a generator of employment opportunities in all modern economies across the world. Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the engines of modern entrepreneurship. In the Republic of Croatia, SMEs are also indispensable in the effort to boost employment and economic growth. The global economic crisis has virtually brought the national economies worldwide to a halt, causing a considerable decline in production, consumption, and gross domestic product. In such conditions, the development of individual entrepreneurial competencies and entrepreneurial culture represents the main preconditions for successful economic growth and development. The SME sector plays a key role in achieving this by increasing the national economy’s competitiveness in the regional and European Union markets. The aim of this paper is to present the position of entrepreneurs in the Republic of Croatia, to identify challenges that come with setting up a business, and to describe the state of small and medium entrepreneurship in the Republic of Croatia.

     
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference; Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference (Online); [Zagreb, Croatia] : [IRENET, Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy], 2015; 6(2020), 1 vom: Sept., Seite 333-340; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: KMU; Entrepreneurship; Kroatien; KMU; Entrepreneurship; Kroatien; entrepreneurship; small business; Republic of Croatia; economic development; European Union
  3. Political power, elite control, and long-run development
    evidence from Brazil
    Author: Martinez-Bravo, Monica; Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico S.
    Published: 20 June 2020
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Subjects: political power; elites; regime transition; economic development
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  4. Rebundling institutions
    Author: Kalkschmied, Katja
    Published: February 2020
    Publisher:  Department of Economics, Department of Public Economics, University of Graz, Graz

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    Series: Graz economics papers ; GEP 2020, 03
    Subjects: legal institutions; property rights; contracting; interrelated incentives; joint effects; economic development
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  5. Religion in economic history: a survey
    Author: Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger
    Published: June 2020
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism,... more

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    This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms -Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization, human capital, emancipation, and the causes and consequences of Jewish persecution. One set of papers on Christianity studies the role of the Catholic Church in European economic history since the medieval period. Taking advantage of newly digitized data and advanced econometric techniques, the voluminous literature on the Protestant Reformation studies its socioeconomic causes as well as its consequences for human capital, secularization, political change, technology diffusion, and social outcomes. Works on missionaries show that early access to Christian missions still has political, educational, and economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and Western Europe. Finally, cross-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power and conflict. Second, human capital often played a leading role in the interconnection between religion and economic history. Third, many socioeconomic factors matter in the historical development of religions.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 13371
    Subjects: religion; economic history; Judaism; Christianity; Islam; economic development; education; persecution; political economy; finance; specialization; trade
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  6. Entrepreneurship and the fight against poverty in us cities
    Author: Lee, Neil; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés
    Published: 20 April 2020
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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    Series: Array ; DP14643
    Subjects: entrepreneurship; poverty; cities; economic development; USA
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  7. The developer's dilemma
    a survey of structural transformation and inequality dynamics
    Author: Alisjahbana, Armida S.; Kim, Kyunghoon; Sen, Kunal; Sumner, Andrew; Yusuf, Arief Anshory
    Published: March 2020
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    This paper discusses the 'developer's dilemma' - a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally... more

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    This paper discusses the 'developer's dilemma' - a tension emerging from the fact that developing countries are simultaneously seeking structural transformation and broad-based growth to raise incomes of the poor. Simon Kuznets originally hypothesized that structural transformation may have a tendency - in the absence of policy intervention - to put upward pressure on income inequality. However, broad-based economic growth requires steady or even falling income inequality to maximize the growth of incomes at the lower end of the distribution. The purpose of our paper is: (i) to revisit the seminal Kuznets paper in order to understand how Kuznets understood the structural transformation and income inequality relationship precisely; (ii) to discuss the empirical experience of the developing world in terms of structural transformation and, in doing so, to outline a typology of 'varieties' of structural transformation; and (iii) to discuss the structural transformation-inequality relationship and how it may differ under different patterns of structural transformation.

     
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2020, 35
    Subjects: income inequality; structural transformation; economic development; Kuznets; Lewis
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  8. Can community information campaigns improve girls' education?
    Author: Cotton, Christopher; Nanowski, Jordan; Nordstrom, Ardyn; Richert, Eric
    Published: 3-2020
    Publisher:  Department of Economics, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

    We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and others.... more

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    We examine the impact of a large, randomized Girls' Education Challenge (GEC) project in rural Zimbabwe. The multifaceted project initially provided information about girls' rights and education barriers to girls, parents, teachers, and others. Later, the project introduced a learn-to-read program and provided resources such as bicycles and books. The information campaign significantly improved mathematics performance and school enrolment in a short time frame. The subsequent provision of resources and curriculum changes corresponded to improvements in literacy but did not correspond to any additional improvements in mathematics and enrolment beyond what was observed following the information provision alone.

     
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    Series: Queen's Economics Department working paper ; no. 1426
    Subjects: Girls' Education Challenge; education; empowerment; information provision; impact evaluation; economic development; field experiment; multifaceted intervention
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  9. A new measure of foreign rule based on genetic distance
    Author: Dharmapala, Dhammika
    Published: April 2020
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    The consequences for countries of past foreign rule are the subject of a vast literature across history and the social sciences. This paper constructs a novel measure of past foreign (or minority) rule - the genetic distance of a country's ruling... more

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    The consequences for countries of past foreign rule are the subject of a vast literature across history and the social sciences. This paper constructs a novel measure of past foreign (or minority) rule - the genetic distance of a country's ruling elite in the year 1900 from the country's ethnic majority - by mapping historical information on these groups to existing data on bilateral genetic distances between countries and populations. This generates an "elite-population genetic distance" in 1900 (EPGD_1900) for each of 228 present-day countries and territories. While this continuous measure is positively correlated with existing dichotomous measures of foreign rule, it captures an additional dimension of variation absent from the existing measures. The paper documents robust conditional correlations between EPGD_1900 and current income levels, and between EPGD_1900 and current fiscal capacity (controlling for various relevant country characteristics, existing measures of foreign rule, the genetic distance of a country's ethnic majority from that of the UK, and continent fixed effects). In particular, both current GDP per capita and tax revenue as a percentage of GDP are substantially lower for countries and territories with higher EPGD_1900. While these relationships may be attributable to unobserved and persistent variation in state-building capabilities across societies, the results are robust to controlling for a widely-used index of state antiquity that measures the history of state-building capacity.

     
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    Edition: Revised version: March 2020, first version: January 2015
    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8202 (2020)
    Subjects: foreign rule; fiscal capacity; economic development
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  10. Political instability and political terror
    global evidence on persistence
    Author: Asongu, Simplice; Uduji, Joseph I.; Okolo-Obasi, Elda N.
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  African Governance and Development Institute, [Yaoundé]

    We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in... more

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    We test the hypotheses that fundamental characteristics in regional proximity, landlockedness, religious-domination, legal origin, and income levels affect cross-country differences in the persistence in political terror and political instability in 163 countries for the period 2010 to 2015. The empirical evidence is based on Generalised Method of Moments. The hypotheses are that the following are associated with comparatively higher levels of persistence in political terror and political instability: regions with predominantly low income countries (Hypothesis 1); landlockedness (Hypothesis 2); Christian-orientation (Hypothesis 3); French civil law (Hypothesis 4) and Low income (Hypothesis 5). The tested hypotheses are largely invalid. Only Hypothesis 5 and Hypothesis 2 are robustly investigated in the light of concerns about instrument proliferation. Hypothesis 2 is valid for political terror but not for political instability while Hypothesis 5 is neither valid for political instability nor for political terror.

     
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    Series: AGDI working paper ; WP/20, 016
    Subjects: political instability; political terror; economic development; comparative studies
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  11. Theory and empirics of capability accumulation
    implications for macroeconomic modelling
    Author: Aistleitner, Matthias; Gräbner-Radkowitsch, Claudius; Hornykewycz, Anna
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz

    The accumulation of new technological capabilities is of high empirical relevance, both for the development of countries and the business success of firms. In this paper, we aim to delineate strategies how these processes of capability accumulation... more

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    The accumulation of new technological capabilities is of high empirical relevance, both for the development of countries and the business success of firms. In this paper, we aim to delineate strategies how these processes of capability accumulation can be considered more accurately in comprehensive macroeconomic models. To this end, we conduct an interdisciplinary review of the literature specialized on capability accumulation by analyzing both empirical as well as theoretical literature on the firm and aggregated level. In doing so, we collect evidence various determinants and mechanisms of capability accumulation and align them with the current representation of capability accumulation in macroeconomic models. Based on these results, we make some suggestions on how macroeconomists may integrate these determinants derived from the specialized literature into their models.

     
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    Series: ICAE working paper series ; no. 105 (March 2020)
    Subjects: Capability accumulation; complexity; economic development; innovation; technological change; agent-based modeling; endogeneous growth; knowledge accumulation and learning
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  12. Spurring economic growth through human development
    research results and guidance for policymakers
    Author: Bloom, David E.; Khoury, Alexander; Kufenko, Vadim; Prettner, Klaus
    Published: February 2020
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a... more

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    Education, general health, and reproductive health are key indicators of human development. Investments in these domains can also promote economic growth. This paper argues for the importance of human development related investments based on i) a theoretical economic growth model with poverty traps, ii) a literature review of evidence that different human development related investments can promote growth, and iii) own empirical analyses that aim at estimating the relative contribution of different human development indicators to economic growth across heterogeneous growth regimes. Our results suggest the following associations: (i) a one-child decrease in the total fertility rate corresponds to a 2 percentage point (pp) increase in annual per capita GDP growth in the short run (5 years) and 0.5 pp higher annual growth in the mid to long run (35 years), (ii) a 10% increase in life expectancy at birth corresponds to a 1 pp increase in annual GDP per capita growth in the short run and 0.4 pp higher growth in the mid to long run, and (iii) a one-year increase in average educational attainment corresponds to a 0.7 pp increase in annual growth in the short run and 0.3 pp higher growth in the mid to long run. By contrast, infrastructure proxies are not significantly associated with subsequent growth in any of the models estimated.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12964
    Subjects: Wirtschaftswachstum; Bildungsinvestition; Infrastrukturinvestition; Armut; Sterblichkeit; Wachstumstheorie; Panel; Welt; human development; economic development
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  13. The effect of inter-municipal cooperation on local business development in German municipalities
    Author: Wolfschütz, Eva
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Philipps-University Marburg, School of Business and Economics, Marburg

    Does inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) enhance municipal economic performance? This study employs marginal structural models to address selection into treatment and time-dependent confounding to estimate the effectiveness of IMC in the field of local... more

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    Does inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) enhance municipal economic performance? This study employs marginal structural models to address selection into treatment and time-dependent confounding to estimate the effectiveness of IMC in the field of local business development. I use data on municipalities in four West-German states, Lower Saxony, Hesse, Rhineland Palatinate, and Bavaria during the years 2008-2015. I find that, over time, IMC has a positive effect on local economic performance and local business development resources are spent more productively in cooperating municipalities.

     
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    Subjects: Inter-municipal cooperation; economic development; marginal structural models; Germany
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  14. The process of economic development in West Sichuan
    the case of Daocheng County
    Author: Holz, Carsten A.
    Published: February 2020
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region... more

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    Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a sustainable development trajectory? What form does economic development take? What is the role of the government vs. the private sector? What are the broader socio-economic and cultural consequences? The focus is on Daocheng County, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Region, West Sichuan. The fact that it is a predominantly Tibetan county adds a nationality dimension to the issue of economic development.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8104 (2020)
    Subjects: economic development; tourism development; infrastructure development; povertyalleviation; backward region; fiscal transfers; Tibet
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  15. Is there a fiscal resource curse?
    resource rents, fiscal capacity, and political institutions in developing economies
    Author: Masi, Tania; Savoia, Antonio; Sen, Kunal
    Published: February 2020
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural... more

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    States' fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural resources rents may reduce incentives to invest in fiscal capacity. However, political institutions that limit rulers' discretion over the use of resource revenues may mitigate or neutralize this negative effect. We investigate this hypothesis using panel data for 1995 to 2015 for 62 developing countries. The results suggest: (1) point-source resources are negatively associated with fiscal capacity, while diffuse resources are not; (2) developing economies with institutionalized executive constraints can neutralize the negative effect of point-source resources; (3) the effect of resource rents works mainly through institutions that make the tax system accountable and transparent. Thus it is possible to develop both fiscal capacity and the natural resources sector, without any trade-off.

     
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    Subjects: state capacity; fiscal capacity; resource curse; institutions; constraints on the executive; economic development
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  16. The middle-income trap 2.0
    the increasing role of human capital in the age of automation and implications for developing Asia
    Author: Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Center for East Asia Macro-Economic Studies, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    We modify the concept of the middle-income trap (MIT) against the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the (future) challenges of automation (creating the concept of the "MIT 2.0") and discuss the implications for developing Asia. In... more

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    We modify the concept of the middle-income trap (MIT) against the background of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the (future) challenges of automation (creating the concept of the "MIT 2.0") and discuss the implications for developing Asia. In particular, we analyze the impacts of automation, artificial intelligence, and digitalization on the growth drivers of emerging market economies and the MIT mechanism. Our findings suggest that improving human capital accumulation, particularly the upgrading of skills needed with the rapid advance of automation, will be key success factors for overcoming the MIT 2.0.

     
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    Series: CEAMeS discussion paper ; no. 2018, 15
    Subjects: automation; AI; human capital; middle-income trap; developing Asia; economic development; economic growth; employment
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  17. Trajectories to high income
    comparing the growth dynamics in China, Korea, and Japan with cointegrated VAR models
    Author: Murach, Michael; Wagner, Helmut; Kim, Jungsuk; Park, Donghyun
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Center for East Asia Macro-Economic Studies, University of Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    We analyze and compare the patterns of economic growth and development in China, Korea, and Japan in the post-war period. The geographical proximity and cultural affinity between the three countries, as well as the key role of the development state... more

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    We analyze and compare the patterns of economic growth and development in China, Korea, and Japan in the post-war period. The geographical proximity and cultural affinity between the three countries, as well as the key role of the development state in the economies, suggest that an analytical comparison would be a meaningful and valuable exercise. Furthermore, Korea and Japan are two of the few economies that have jumped from middle income to high income in a short period and thus offer potentially valuable lessons for China. China is following a structural change that Korea and Japan underwent decades ago. We use Cobb-Douglas production functions to assess the long-run equilibrium relationships between per capita GDP, capital, and labor as well as the features of structural change by means of cointegrated vector autoregressive (CVAR) models. We show that such equilibrium relationships cannot be rejected for all three countries, while the evidence is stronger for China and Korea than for Japan. Our hypothesis tests show that the estimated Cobb-Douglas production functions display coefficients of capital and employment that sum up to one and broken linear trends that can be attributed to structural breaks and (changes in) total factor productivity (TFP) growth. We observe a striking similarity between the Korean and the Chinese experience, which gives some optimism that China may be capable of graduating to high income, like Korea.

     
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    Series: CEAMeS discussion paper ; no. 2020, 16
    Subjects: aggregate production function; comparative economic growth; China; Korea; Japan; economic development
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  18. Political power, elite control, and long-run development
    evidence from Brazil
    Author: Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Federico; Martinez-Bravo, Monica
    Published: June 2020
    Publisher:  Centro de estudios monetarios y financieros, Madrid, Spain

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    Subjects: Political power; elites; regime transition; economic development
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  19. Education supply and economic growth in nineteenth-century France
    Author: Montalbo, Adrien
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Paris School of Economics, Paris

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    Series: Working paper / Paris School of Economics ; no 2020, 06
    Subjects: primary instruction; economic development; nineteenth-century France
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  20. International disease epidemics and the shadow economy
    Author: Berdiev, Aziz N.; Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.
    Published: July 2020
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector undermines compliance with... more

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    Adding to the emerging body of research related to the current coronavirus crisis, this paper studies the impact of disease epidemics on the worldwide prevalence of the shadow or the underground economy. The informal sector undermines compliance with government regulations and lowers tax collections. Our main hypothesis is that epidemics positively impacts the spread of the shadow economy. Using data on nearly 130 nations and nesting the empirical analysis in the broader literature on the drivers of the shadow sector, we find that both the incidence and the intensity of epidemics positively and significantly contribute to the spread of the underground sector. Numerically, a ten percent increase in the intensity of epidemics leads to an increase in the prevalence of the shadow economy by about 2.1 percent. These findings about the spillovers from epidemics have implications for economic policies in the current times of coronavirus.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8425 (2020)
    Subjects: shadow economy; epidemics; COVID-19; government; economic development
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  21. Bogotá y área de influencia: tendencias económicas en las primeras dos décadas del siglo XXI
    Author: Aguilera Díaz, Maria M.; Mora-Quiñones, Rocío; Ramírez-Rodríguez, Carolina
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Banco de la República Colombia, Centro de Estudios Económicos Regionales (CEER), Cartagena

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    Series: Documentos de trabajo sobre economía regional y urbana ; núm. 291 (agosto, 2020)
    Subjects: Bogotá; regional economy; quality of life; economic development
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  22. Economic development and the motherhood wage penalty
    Author: Agüero, Jorge M.; Marks, Mindy; Raykar, Neha
    Published: June 2020
    Publisher:  University of Connecticut, Department of Economics, Storrs, CT

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    Series: Department of Economics working paper series / University of Connecticut ; 2020, 06
    Subjects: Female earnings; family size; family penalty; fertility; economic development
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  23. Measure twice, cut once
    entrepreneurial ecosystem metrics
    Author: Leendertse, Jip; Schrijvers, Mirella; Stam, Erik
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    Publisher:  U.S.E. Research Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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    Series: U.S.E. working paper series ; nr: 20, 01
    Subjects: entrepreneurial ecosystem; regional dynamics; entrepreneurship; economic development; economic policy; entrepreneurship policy
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  24. Once the great lockdown is lifted
    post COVID-19 options for the economy
    Author: Ritzen, Jozef M. M.
    Published: 18 December 2020
    Publisher:  Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (UNU-MERIT), Maastricht, The Netherlands

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    Series: Working paper series / United Nations University, UNU-MERIT ; #2020, 057
    Subjects: COVID‐19; employment; economic development; environmental sustainability; social cohesion education; health; monetary policy; sovereign long‐term interest rates; conditionalities; taxation; stock market
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  25. Reassessing the resource curse using causal machine learning
    Author: Hodler, Roland; Lechner, Michael; Raschky, Paul A.
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics, University of St.Gallen, St. Gallen

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    Series: Discussion paper / University of St.Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics ; no. 2020, 16 (September 2020)
    Subjects: Resource curse; mining; economic development; conflict; causal machine learning; Africa
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