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Structural Change And Productivity Growth In Developing Countries, Ahmed Salim Nuhu Jan 2017

Structural Change And Productivity Growth In Developing Countries, Ahmed Salim Nuhu

Masters Theses

The dual-economy model predicts that holding productivity constant, labor reallocation from less to more productive sectors, also known as 'structural change' results in improvement in economy-wide productivity. The objective of this thesis is to test the empirical predictions of this model using sectoral-level data from twenty-eight developing countries. Using the shift-share growth decomposition approach, we find regional growth-enhancing effects of structural change in Asia, Latin America and North Africa from, 1980 to 2000 and growth-reducing effects in Sub-Saharan Africa over the same period. However, as intersectoral productivity gaps disappeared after 2000, technological progress led the growth process in much of …


Fertility And Female Labor Force Participation: The Role Of Legal Access To Contraceptives, Chaney Skadsen Dec 2016

Fertility And Female Labor Force Participation: The Role Of Legal Access To Contraceptives, Chaney Skadsen

Chaney Skadsen

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Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Case Studies: Does The Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?, David Powell Dec 2016

Synthetic Control Estimation Beyond Case Studies: Does The Minimum Wage Reduce Employment?, David Powell

David Powell

Panel data are often used in empirical work to account for fixed additive time and unit effects.  The synthetic control estimator relaxes the assumption of additive effects for case studies in which a treated unit adopts a single policy.  This paper generalizes the case study synthetic control estimator to estimate treatment effects for multiple discrete or continuous variables, jointly estimating the treatment effects and synthetic controls for each unit.  Applying the estimator to study the disemployment effects of the minimum wage for teenagers, I estimate an elasticity of -0.44, substantially larger in magnitude than estimates generated using additive fixed effects.