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Guns, Germs, and Slaves: an Alternative View of the Colonial Origins of Comparative Development
This paper shows that early colonial interactions between Europeans and indigenous populations, specifically the deaths of the latter, …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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David Sylvan
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Anastasia Aladysheva
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Elena Gadjanova
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Can One Hear the Shape of a Target Zone?
We develop an exchange rate target zone model with finite exit time and non-Gaussian tails. We show how the tails are a consequence of …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Max-Olivier Hongler
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Shekhar Hari Kumar
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Daniele Rinaldo
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Networks of Destruction: Political Patronage and the Great Leap Famine of China
We study the mortality cost of political patronage in the context of China’s Great Leap Famine (GLF; 1958-1962). As a direct …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Ran Tao
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Huayu Xu
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Dali Yang
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What’s Beauty Worth? Evidence from the Chinese Labor Market
We use a Chinese longitudinal survey to examine the association between beauty and individual labor market earnings. We estimate …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Xinchen Dai
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Minhui Zhou
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Assessing Military Access in Politics: A Dyadic Methodology
The extensive literature on civil-military relations deals with the influence of the military on politics by attending to either …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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David Sylvan
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Too Much Finance or Statistical Illusion: A Comment
A recent policy brief from the Peterson Institute suggests that the "Too Much Finance" result may be an artifact of spurious …
Enrico Berkes
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Ugo Panizza
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Jean-Louis Arcand
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Braving the Waves: The Role of Time and Risk Preferences in Illegal Migration from Senegal
This paper aims to provide the first evidence concerning the relationship between time and risk preferences and illegal migration in an …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Linguère Mously Mbaye
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Weak Governments and Trade Agreements
The recent theoretical literature on the determinants of trade agreements has stressed the importance of political gains, such as …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Marcelo Olarreaga
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Laura Zoratto
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Aid, peasants and social exclusion
Using unique village census data collected in 2003 and 2008 in Senegal, we assess the impact of a major World Bank-funded Community …
Jean-Louis Arcand
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Natascha Wagner
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Conflict, Ideology and Foreign Aid
In this paper, we present a rent-seeking model of conflict, which highlights the role of ideology in determining whether the government …
Julien Labonne
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Adama Bah
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Jean-Louis Arcand
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