Exceptional Argentina Di Tella, Glaeser and Llach - Thomas Piketty

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Table 1: School Enrollment in Chicago and Buenos Airies Chicago Children Aged 5-14 Buenos Aires Various Age Groups Total Population (Of Age Group) Total Population (Of Age Group) Year % in School % in School 1870 66.14% 61,874 1883 64.63% 52,231 Age 5-14 1880 54.96% 106,543 1895 57.72% 117,388 Age 6-14 1890 66.39% 214,470 1904 67.45% 188,271 Age 6-15 1900 64.82% 342,000 1943 90.10% 290,922 Age 6-13 1910 85.52% 353,520 1920 89.80% 486,969 1930 86.34% 553,884 Sources: (1) All of the Chicago data are from are from IPUMS, except 1890 which is from the print edition of the 1890 census. (2) Censo Escolar Nacional -correspondiente a fines de 1883 y principios de 1884, Segundo Censo Nacional (1895), Censo General de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (1904), Tercer Censo Nacional (1914), and Cuarto Censo Escolar de la Nación (1948)
Table 2: Top 5 Industries in Chicago (1909) and Buenos Aires (1914) Total Employment Share of Total Manufacturing Employment Share of Total City Population Value Added per Worker Capital per Worker (1914 US $) (1914 US $) Top Five Industries in Chicago (By Employment) Clothing, men's, including shirts 38,370 10.75% 1.85% $1,191.50 $1,023.20 Foundry and machine-shop products 36,868 10.33% 1.78% $1,426.24 $2,625.67 Printing and Publishing 33,439 9.37% 1.61% $1,702.41 $1,513.60 Slaughtering and Meat Packing 27,147 7.61% 1.31% $1,576.51 $4,566.25 Lumber and timber products 11,680 3.27% 0.56% $1,099.02 $1,628.57 Top Five Industries in Buenos Aires (By Employment) Dressing 35,731 23.93% 2.26% $568 $763 Metallurgy and related 16,243 10.88% 1.03% $727 $1,254 Weaving, leathers, furs, fiber, yarn and fabrics 9,260 6.20% 0.58% $665 $1,201 Bakeries 8,500 5.69% 0.54% $625 $516 Printing press and lithographies 6,644 4.45% 0.42% $877 $1,174 Notes: (1) Chicago data from the 1910 Census of Manufacturers. (2) Buenos Aires Data from the Censo Nacional 1914.
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Exceptional Argentina Di Tella, Gla
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A third explanation of Argentina’
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Maddison's "Western Offshoots" by l
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A final point on this mechanistic a
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GDP in 1900 at 12,100 (in constant
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nationalized railways and banks, to
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country interacted with initial con
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1900. As there is an extremely stro
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Between the 1940s and 1970s income
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particularly in terms of food consu
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Even before the 2001 crisis, Argent
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Scandinavia and Northern Europe the
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Figure 4. A modified Human Developm
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Figure 6. Per capita GDP across Arg
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Table 2 Livestock per Capita 1895 C
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Table 5 Mean Share of Exports (Impo
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Table 7 Tariff Statistics for perio
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Table 9 Evolution of Industrial Pro
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CHAPTER FIVE Path-Dependent Import-
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actors, and they were demanding pro
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the primary sector, using land and
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Figure 1: The Long Run: Four Region
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Finally, in the reversal of pattern
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Figure 3: Medium Run Preferences ov
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sector to give rise to a protection
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technological improvements or incre
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Argentina did relatively well when
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World War, a second globalization e
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Argentine primary sector and ensure
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Clearly, world market conditions we
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for the years to come. The most imp
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governments zigzagged in their poli
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public spending on infrastructure s
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understand the rise of the urban-ru
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To sum up, by the beginning of the
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has a comparative advantage in the
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L λ = m L K κ = m K That is, λ i
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K c a = 1− α 1−α T A ( κ )
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Given a set of parameters ϒ , φ a
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consumption of good i. For any agen
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Proposition 3 In the short run, pro
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ρ 1/ 1 ρ ρ 1 ( ξ ξ ) 1 TT K ,
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Up to 2008, the FPV government had
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negative correlation between the pr
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policies would, supposedly, eviscer
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I. Introduction In a seminal study,
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terms, Peronist beliefs in the 1990
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Several authors have emphasized the
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foreign capital and trade as the gl
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of already available information. A
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having the need to do more than wak
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Argentines (who implement these pol
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opinion about elements of capitalis
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intense (the proportion is under 1.
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involved in social ordering that wi
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cost of the deviating firm, since w
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Admissible Region Bounds on w b Nex
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The previous proposition may be par
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and note that Peron insists on the
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Appendix 2: Definitions of Variable
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Table II: The Beliefs of Peronists
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Transition Remarks The previous cha
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CHAPTER SEVEN A Short Episodic Hist
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the income distribution between 193
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empirical evidence and on existing
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of commodities. The country was off
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accounts increased by 8% between 19
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Argentina in 1942 (4.1%) is not ver
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This change in inequality is also r
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1982, when Mexico’s default on it
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1995. While growth bounced back qui
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The main characteristics of this ep
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skilled workers that more than offs
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Household Expenditure Survey. An in
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The relationship between internatio
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machinery and equipment can acceler
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occurred not only in production tec
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a relative abundance of rents to sh
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even when the number of well-off in
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and similar patterns emerge when co
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This chapter described the level an
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Transition Remarks Economic success
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CHAPTER EIGHT Why do Argentines tru
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in the 1970s and 1980s. Despite the
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Figure 5. Percentage of the populat
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analysis of the Argentinean and Chi
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observationally equivalent individu
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the low rank policeman. 13 4. The C
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Figure 7. Share of people having a
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6. Why did the Argentinean Police d
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instability, σ, a worried leader h
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the deeper question of why the Arge
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Table 2. Comparative facts for cano
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of formal education, whereas in the
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only bargaining tool to get money.
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Table 6. Tierra del Fuego Subinspec
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4. Police deaths during the 20th ce
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Of course, these conclusions depend
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“stop go” dynamics 4 ). In fact
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income distribution and earnings gr
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Figure 2. Basic Statistics Food Clo
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Table 2 Dep. Var.: Share of food Sm
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Figure 3. Variety in food retailing
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Table 3 Dep. Var.: Share of food at
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3.3 Income distribution effects The
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Figure 6. Individual Effects Using
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Expenditure Income 5000 6000 4000 4
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Figure 10. Income distribution Dens
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Appendix A: Estimation strategy Est
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w ijt where [ ln( 1+ ∏ ) − ln(
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2.2 Income distribution effects Fol
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Appendix B: The data To run our est
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Appendix C: Additional tables C1: B
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C3: Table 3 coefficients Dummy for
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CONCLUSION 20 th century Argentina
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can be harbingers of worse things t
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Ahumada, Hildegart, Alfredo Canaves
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Barro, Robert J. 2005. “Rare Even
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Burzaco, Eugenio et al. 2004. “Ma
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Cortés Conde, Roberto and María M
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Di Tella, Rafael, Juan Dubra and Ro
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Gaggero, Horacio and Alicia Garro.
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Gerchunoff, Pablo, Fernando Rocchi
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James, Daniel. 1988. “October 17
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Maddison, Angus. 2006. The World Ec
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Piketty, T. 2003. “Income Inequal
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Spiller, Pablo and Mariano Tommasi.
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Williamson, Jeffrey G. 1995. “The
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