We consider whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse than other countries, as...

This paper considers the argument about whether Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries are mainly poor because they are governed worse...

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional...

The Grand Transition (GT) view claims that economic development is causal to institutional development, and that many institutional...

Measures of corruption and income are highly correlated across countries. We use prehistoric measures of biogeography as instruments...

Prehistoric measures of biogeography are used as instruments for modern income levels. We find that our instrumented incomes explain...

Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady state output...

We use factor analysis to derive a robust measure of religiosity from items reported in five waves of the World Value Survey. Our...

Some recent empirical studies deny any direct performance effects of measures of geography and conclude that institutions trump all...

Long-run development (in income) causes a large fall in the share of agriculture commonly known as the agricultural transition. We...

Factor endowments are usually taken as given in trade theoretical analyses of technological change. We use the Deardorff (1974)...

Translated to a cross-country context, the Solow model (Solow, 1956) predicts that international differences in steady-state output...

Most empirical studies of long-run growth refer to one of the two seminal contributions by Robert Solow in 1956 and 1957. His work...

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from the equator....

Some recent empirical studies deny any direct effect of geography on development and conclude that institutions dominate all other...

The paper considers the transformation of the political system as countries pass through the Grand Transition from a poor developing...

We combine the augmented Solow model with the Mincer equation to derive a specification that identifies an education externality...

We combine the augmented Solow model with the Mincer equation to derive a specification that identifies an education externality...