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| Beschreibung: | Zugl.: Göteborg, Univ., Diss., 2006. - Enth. 4 Beitr. |
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Overview ix
Paper 1: Island Status, Country Size and Institutional Quality in Former Colonies
1. Introduction 1
2. Country size, islands and institutional quality 3
2.1 Country size 3
2.2 Islands 5
2.3 Previous empirical results 5
3. Data specification and general empirical model 6
4. Results : 8
4.1 The basic model 8
4.2 Institutions and economic performance 13
4.3 Robustness checks 17
4.3.1 Trade openness 17
4.3.2 Vulnerability .....23
4.3.3 Colonial history 24
4.3.4 Dependent versus independent states 27
4.3.5 Social capital and identity 29
5. Conclusions 32
References 34
Data Appendix 37
Paper 2: Endogenous Institutional Change after Independence
1. Introduction 1
2. Institutional development after independence 4
2.1 Singapore 4
2.2 DR Congo 6
2.3 Botswana 7
2.4 Zambia 8
2.5 Ghana 9
3. The model 10
3.1 Basics 10
3.2 Functional form 12
3.3 Optimal institutional change 16
4. Extensions 20
4.1 Endogenous labor supply 20
4.2 Natural resource booms and declines 26
4.3 Foreign aid 27
4.4 Trade liberalization 28
4.5 Impediments to institutional efficacy 29
5. Conclusions 30
References 33
Appendix 37
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Paper 3: Congo: The Prize ofPredation
Introduction 321
Greed and Grievance in Congolese Conflicts 323
Background: 1960 94 323
The Rwanda Genocide and the War Against Mobutu: 1994 97 324
The Great African War: 1998 325
The Model 327
Agents 327
The Game and Its Solution 330
Analysis 332
Concluding Remarks 334
References 335
Paper 4: The Determinants of Rural Child Labor: An Application to India
1. Introduction 1
2. The theoretical model. 4
3. Data and descriptive statistics 13
3.1 Activity rates 16
3.2 School attendance in India 18
4. The empirical model 18
5. Results 24
5.1 Household income, land and productive assets 25
5.2 School availability 31
5.3 Child characteristics 31
5.4 Parental characteristics 31
5.5 Household characteristics 32
5.6 Village characteristics 32
5.7 Marginal effects 33
5.8 Are idle children really idle? 33
5.9 Previous results 34
6. Conclusions 34
References 36
Appendix 1 38
Appendix 2 40
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Table of Contents
Overview ix
Paper 1: Island Status, Country Size and Institutional Quality in Former Colonies
1. Introduction 1
2. Country size, islands and institutional quality 3
2.1 Country size 3
2.2 Islands 5
2.3 Previous empirical results 5
3. Data specification and general empirical model 6
4. Results : 8
4.1 The basic model 8
4.2 Institutions and economic performance 13
4.3 Robustness checks 17
4.3.1 Trade openness 17
4.3.2 Vulnerability .23
4.3.3 Colonial history 24
4.3.4 Dependent versus independent states 27
4.3.5 Social capital and identity 29
5. Conclusions 32
References 34
Data Appendix 37
Paper 2: Endogenous Institutional Change after Independence
1. Introduction 1
2. Institutional development after independence 4
2.1 Singapore 4
2.2 DR Congo 6
2.3 Botswana 7
2.4 Zambia 8
2.5 Ghana 9
3. The model 10
3.1 Basics 10
3.2 Functional form 12
3.3 Optimal institutional change 16
4. Extensions 20
4.1 Endogenous labor supply 20
4.2 Natural resource booms and declines 26
4.3 Foreign aid 27
4.4 Trade liberalization 28
4.5 Impediments to institutional efficacy 29
5. Conclusions 30
References 33
Appendix 37
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Paper 3: Congo: The Prize ofPredation
Introduction 321
Greed and Grievance in Congolese Conflicts 323
Background: 1960 94 323
The Rwanda Genocide and the War Against Mobutu: 1994 97 324
The Great African War: 1998 325
The Model 327
Agents 327
The Game and Its Solution 330
Analysis 332
Concluding Remarks 334
References 335
Paper 4: The Determinants of Rural Child Labor: An Application to India
1. Introduction 1
2. The theoretical model. 4
3. Data and descriptive statistics 13
3.1 Activity rates 16
3.2 School attendance in India 18
4. The empirical model 18
5. Results 24
5.1 Household income, land and productive assets 25
5.2 School availability 31
5.3 Child characteristics 31
5.4 Parental characteristics 31
5.5 Household characteristics 32
5.6 Village characteristics 32
5.7 Marginal effects 33
5.8 Are idle children really idle? 33
5.9 Previous results 34
6. Conclusions 34
References 36
Appendix 1 38
Appendix 2 40
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