Documents et rapports
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The Effects of Climate Change in the Poorest Countries : Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad (anglais)
Empirical studies of the economic effects of climate change largely rely on climate anomalies for causal identification purposes. Slow and permanent changes in climate-driven geographical conditions, that...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10561 Date du document: 5 septembre 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Haslop,Federico,Zarate Vasquez,Roman David,Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
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Exciting, Boring, and Nonexistent Skylines : Vertical Building Gaps in Global Perspective (anglais)
Despite the widespread prevalence and economic importance of tall buildings, little is known about how their patterns vary across space and time. This paper focuses on vertical real estate, aiming to quantify...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10365 Date du document: 15 mars 2023 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Barr,Jason
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Consumption Cities versus Production Cities : New Considerations and Evidence (anglais)
Cities dramatically vary in their sectoral composition across the world, possibly lending credence to the theory that some cities are production cities with high employment shares of urban tradables while...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS10105 Date du document: 24 juin 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Ianchovichina,Elena,Haslop,Federico
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Scars of Pandemics from Lost Schooling and Experience : Aggregate Implications and Gender Differences Through the Lens of COVID-19 (anglais)
Pandemic shocks disrupt human capital accumulation through schooling and work experience. This study quantifies the long-term economic impact of these disruptions in the case of COVID-19, focusing on countries...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9932 Date du document: 8 février 2022 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Samaniego,Roberto,Jedwab,Remi Camille,Romer,Paul M,Islam,Asif Mohammed
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Technical Paper 3. Estimating the Spillover Economic Effects of Foreign Conflict : Evidence from Boko Haram (anglais)
Violent conflicts present a formidable threat to regional economies. Throughout the world, border regions in many countries are possibly impacted by the cross-border economic effects of regional insurgencies...
Type de document: Mémorandum économique sur un pays Numéro du rapport: 166003 Date du document: 12 novembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Blankespoor,Brian,Masaki,Takaki,Rodríguez-Castelán,Carlos
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Technical Paper Two : Climate Change, Rural Livelihoods, and Urbanization - Evidence from the Permanent Shrinking of Lake Chad (anglais)
There is a vast economic literature studying the effects of climate change on long-run growth, migration, urbanization, and human capital, among several other outcomes. The paper is structured as follows:...
Type de document: Mémorandum économique sur un pays Numéro du rapport: 165927 Date du document: 9 novembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Haslop, Federico,Masaki,Takaaki,Rodriguez Castelan,Carlos
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Human Capital Accumulation at Work : Estimates for the World and Implications for Development (anglais)
In this paper, the authors: (i) study wage-experience profiles and obtain measures of returns to potential work experience using data from about 24 million individuals in 1,084 household surveys and census...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9786 Date du document: 29 septembre 2021 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Romer,Paul M,Islam,Asif Mohammed,Samaniego,Roberto
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Cities of Workers, Children, or Seniors? Age Structure and Economic Growth in a Global Cross-Section of Cities (anglais)
A large literature documents the positive influence of a city's skill structure on its rate of economic growth. By contrast, the effect of a city's age structure on its economic growth has been a hitherto...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS9040 Date du document: 15 octobre 2019 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Pereira,Daniel,Roberts,Mark
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Demography, urbanization, and development rural push, urban pull, and urban push? (anglais)
Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty)...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 125336 Date du document: 21 septembre 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Christiaensen,Luc,Gindelsky,Marina
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Demography, urbanization and development : rural push, urban pull and... urban push ? (anglais)
Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural-urban migration, focusing on rural push factors (agricultural modernization and rural poverty)...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS7333 Date du document: 23 juin 2015 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Jedwab,Remi Camille,Christiaensen,Luc,Gindelsky,Marina