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IZA Discussion Paper No. 2950
Informality as a Stepping Stone: Entrepreneurial Entry in a Developing Economy
John Bennett, Saul Estrin
published as 'Informal firms in developing countries: entrepreneurial stepping stone or consolation prize?' in Small Business Economics, 2010, 34 (1), 53-63
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2949
Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 747-793
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2948
A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country Migrants
David McKenzie
published as 'A Profile of the World's Young Developing Country International Migrants' in: Population and Development Review, 2008, 34 (1), 115 - 135
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2935
Social Attitudes and Economic Development: An Epidemiological Approach
Yann Algan, Pierre Cahuc
published as 'Inherited Trust and Growth' in: American Economic Review, 2010, 100 (5), 2060 - 2092
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2934
Returns to Capital in Microenterprises: Evidence from a Field Experiment
Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie, Christopher Woodruff
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (4), 1329-1372
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2922
The Enfranchisement of Women and the Welfare State
Graziella Bertocchi
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2011, 55 (4), 535-553
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2921
An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Hugo R. Nopo
published in: Economics Letters, 2008, 100 (2), 292-296
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2920
Women on the Move: The Neglected Gender Dimension of the Brain Drain
Jean-Christophe Dumont, John P. Martin, Gilles Spielvogel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2914
Spending to Save? State Health Expenditure and Infant Mortality in India
Sonia R. Bhalotra
published in: Health Economics, 2007, 16 (9), 911-928
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2913
Trade, Quality Upgrading and Wage Inequality in the Mexican Manufacturing Sector
Eric Verhoogen
published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2008, 123 (2), 489-530
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2905
Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition
Matteo Cervellati, Uwe Sunde
see IZA DP 7199 for a substantially revised and extended version
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2901
Why Is Child Labor Illegal?
Sylvain Dessy, John Knowles
revised version published in: European Economic Review, 2008, 52 (7), 1275 - 1311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2889
Should Market Liberalization Precede Democracy? Causal Relations between Political Preferences and Development
Pauline Grosjean, Claudia Senik
published as "Democracy, Market Liberalization and Political Preferences" in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2011, 93(1), 365-381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2878
Birth Spacing, Fertility Selection and Child Survival: Analysis Using a Correlated Hazard Model
Pushkar Maitra, Sarmistha Pal
published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2008, 27 (3), 690-705
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2869
Child Labor and Schooling Response to Changes in Coca Production in Rural Peru
Ana C. Dammert
revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2008, 86 (1), 164-180
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2858
Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Quest for Growth
Santanu Chatterjee, Paola Giuliano, Ilker Kaya
published as 'Where Has All the Money Gone? Foreign Aid and the Composition of Government Spending' in: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2012, 12 (1), Article 26
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2852
Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92
Sarmistha Pal, Sugata Ghosh
published as 'Poverty, Elite Heterogeneity and the Allocation of Public Spending: Panel Evidence from the Indian States' in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2012, 58 (1), 51-78
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2844
Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and their Impact on Education in Africa
Jean Bourdon, Markus Frölich, Katharina Michaelowa
published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A (Statistics in Society), 2010, 73, 93-116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2843
Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports
Claudio Ferraz, Frederico S. Finan
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (4), 1274-1311
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2842
Formal and Informal Risk Sharing in LDCs: Theory and Empirical Evidence
Pierre Dubois, Bruno Jullien, Thierry Magnac
published in: Econometrica, 2008, 76(4), 679-726
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