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(2015-03-11)This paper evaluates the casual impact of migration on homicides rates for Ecuadorian provinces for the period 1999-2012. Our main measure of migration is the stock of asylum seekers. In order to address the endogeneity ...
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The persistence of (subnational) fortune: Geography, agglomeration and institutions in the New World (2014-11-04)Using subnational historical data, this paper establishes the within country persistence of economic activity in the New World over the last half millennium. The paper constructs a data set incorporating measures of ...
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(2014-11-04)Over the last two decades the work of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson and their associates has enriched the debate about the long run determinants of economic prosperity. The main message of these ...
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(2014-11-04)This paper combines two institutional theories of comparative post-colonial development to examine the importance of legal-colonial origins and settlement conditions on the development of economic and political institutions ...
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(2014-11-04)We built a unique dataset of 300,000 famous people born between Hammurabi's epoch and 1879, Einstein's birth year. It includes, among other variables, the vital dates, occupations, and locations of celebrities from the ...