[PDF] Top 20 Essays in development economics

... live in the same neighborhood will vote near their home in the same place, on the same ...). In light of these findings, an abstention in the day of an election may be socially costly for ... See full document

... impact. In particular, I allow for heterogeneous effects depending on the games’ kick-off time, worldwide audience level and tournament ...level in the city of São Paulo. Results are displayed in ... See full document

... The relevant trade-o¤ in NGNs is between the incentive to investment and the degree of price competition in the future. On the one hand, incumbent operators that will likely make most of the investment are ... See full document

... inefficiency in educational systems. In this case, the optimal policy takes an intuitive and informationally less demanding ...linear in bequests, the optimal policy implies in a large ... See full document

... concern in DiD analysis is the possible existence of time-varying, confounding factors, here meaning variables that are simultaneously explaining the process of the expansion of the Federal System Education and ... See full document

... series. In fact, frequencies associated with movements longer than one year are almost negligible in terms of contribution to total ...time. In particular, one can detect clearly periods of higher ... See full document

... schools in the Brazilian Northeast between 2007 and 2016, this study analyzes the impact of cumulative heat exposure on educational ...detrimental. In our preferred specification – which includes spatial, ... See full document

... produced in Schoellman (2012). First, education quality in Brazil ranges from ...numbers in the education quality interval, however, a more appropriate method for comparing the two distributions is ... See full document

... fall in income inequality in ...improve in income distribution, especially since ...reductions in the gender, race, informality and urban-rural wage gaps, conditional on human capital and ... See full document

... unused in large measure. This outcome is not previewed in the “Big Push” model, where either all agents invest, or none ...model in order to account for the possibility of a “white elephant” highway ... See full document

... uneven development in a broad manner, in which the North grows faster than the South in the long-run ...growth in rich and poor ...step in understanding how Thirlwall’s analysis ... See full document

... The article reviews the state of high-tech sector of Ukraine and the state program of the development of science, technology and innovation sector. Similar programs of other countries were analyzed and according ... See full document

... market. In early 2005, the Brazilian Congress approved a new bankruptcy ...variables. In general, both models yield similar ...increase in both total debt and long-term debt, and a reduction ... See full document

... 12 in 3,000 fields in the US were fully ...concentration in the field, as the more firms have access to the same tract, the harder will be to reach a mutual interest ...during development ... See full document

... Abstract: In recent decades, women had substantial advances in access to higher education and better job positions, but these achievements were not reflected in the top ranking of ...women in ... See full document

... da in- tervenção do Estado, pela existência de circunstâncias como as mencionadas a ...regimes in- termediários deu origem a possibilidades de créditos externos com menores graus de condicionamento interno ... See full document

... factors in frustrating their innovative activities; they were grouped in three categories: funding factors (which include financing constraints both internal and external), knowledge factors (lack of ... See full document

... agglomeration. In fact, we concluded that if transport costs are signif- icantly high, firms will prefer to disperse between regions and overcome the absence of knowledge spillovers by cooperating in ...the ... See full document

... patterns in returns and excess re- turns over the riskless interest rate, implying a similar dynamics for expected returns and expected excess returns, I show that this does not hold in the BY ... See full document

... Public debt and its sustainability; debt overhang; debt relief; fiscal policy; public deficit; economic growth; Inflation; African Countries; determinants of economic growth; investmen[r] ... See full document