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    Is Zimbabwe More Productive Than the United States? Some Observations From PWT 8.1 

    İmrohoroğlu, Ayşe; Üngör, Murat
    In Penn World Table (PWT) 8.1, several developing countries stand out as outliers with high total factor productivity (TFP) levels relative to the United States (U.S.). For example, in 2011, Zimbabwe and Trinidad and ...
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    How do empowerment and self-determination affect national health outcomes? 

    Garces-Ozanne, Arlene; Kalu, Edna Ikechi; Audas, Richard
    There remains a persistent gap in health outcomes between wealthy and poor countries. Basic measures such as life expectancy, infant and child mortality remain divergent, with preventable deaths being unacceptably high, ...
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    Income Inequality and FDI: Evidence with Turkish Data 

    Ucal, Meltem; Bilgin, Mehmet Hüseyin; Haug, Alfred A.
    This paper explores how foreign direct investment (FDI) and other determinants impact income inequality in Turkey in the short- and long-run. We apply the ARDL (Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag) modelling approach, which ...
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    Deadlines, Procrastination, and Inattention in Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment 

    Knowles, Stephen; Servátka, Maroš; Sullivan, Trudy
    We conduct a field experiment to analyze the effect of deadline length on charitable giving. Subjects are invited to complete an online survey, with a donation going to charity if they do so. Participants are given either ...
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    Measuring aid effectively in tests of aid effectiveness 

    Fielding, David; Knowles, Stephen
    In the extensive empirical literature on aid effectiveness, aid is always measured as a share of GDP. However, measuring aid in real dollars per capita is also consistent with standard growth theory. We show that the choice ...
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    What Explains Changes in the Level of Abuse Against Civilians during the Peruvian Civil War? 

    Fielding, David; Shortland, Anja
    Using a new monthly time-series data set, we explore the factors associated with variations in the number of civilians killed or wounded by participants in the civil war in Peru during the 1980s and 1990s. We find that an ...
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    A comparison of alternatives to regression analysis as model building techniques to develop predictive equations for software metrics 

    Gray, Andrew; MacDonell, Stephen
    The almost exclusive use of regression analysis to derive predictive equations for software development metrics found in papers published before 1990 has recently been complemented by increasing numbers of studies using ...
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    Newspapers and advertising: The effects of ad-valorem taxation under duopoly. 

    Kind, Hans Jarle; Schjelderup, Guttorm; Stähler, Frank
    Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language in ...
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    Understanding the Etiology of Electoral Violence: The Case of Zimbabwe 

    Fielding, David
    Recent theoretical and empirical work indicates that incumbent governments are likely to attempt to influence election outcomes by violent means (rather than by bribery and fraud) when their level of popular support is ...
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    Ethnic Fractionalization, Governance and Loan Defaults in Africa 

    Adrianova, Svetlana; Baltagi, Badi H.; Demetriades, Panicos; Fielding, David
    We present a theoretical model of moral hazard and adverse selection in an imperfectly competitive loans market that is suitable for application to Africa. The model allows for variation in both the level of contract ...
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