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American education in the age of mass migrations, 1870-1930 (2010)
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct...
The Relationship Between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps ∗ (2010)
This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose an unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both, the...
The expansion and convergence of compulsory schooling in Western Europe, 1950–2000 (2010)
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over 1950–2000. We show that a convergence process has occurred across these countries since 1950. We...
Have more strictly regulated banking systems fared better during the recent financial crisis? (2009)
Ahrend, Rudiger, Arnold, Jens, Murtin, Fabrice
We assess whether during the recent financial crisis banking systems in countries with more stringent prudential banking regulation have proved more stable. We find indicators of regulatory strength...
The century of education (2009)
Morrisson, Christian, Murtin, Fabrice
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007)...
American education in the age of mass migrations 1870-1930 (2009)
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the...
American education in the age of mass migrations 1870 - 1930 (2009)
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the...
The convergence of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000 (2008)
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has...
The convergence process of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000 (2008)
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has...
American economic development since the civil war or the virtue of education (2006)
This paper is the first empirical framework that explains the phenomenon of fast growth combined with the demographic transition occurring in the United States since 1860. I propose a structural...
American economic development since the civil war or the virtue of education (2006)
This paper is the first empirical framework that explains the phenomenon of fast growth combined with the demographic transition occurring in the United States since 1860. I propose a structural...
American Economic Development Since the Civil War or the Virtue of Education
This paper is the first empirical framework that explains the phenomenon of fast growthcombined with the demographic transition occurring in the United States since 1860. Ipropose a structural model...
HIV/AIDS and Poverty in South Africa: a Bayesian Estimation
Fabrice Murtin, Federica Marzo
In this paper we assess the causal impact of HIV/AIDS on monetary poverty using a panel data-set from South Africa and modeling the consequences of the illness on both earnings and transfers. Two...
What Determines Productivity in Senegal? Sectoral Disparities and the Dual Labor
Damien Echevin, Fabrice Murtin
Growth of the informal sector of the Senegalese economy may result in a productivity slowdown and could induce a surge in inequality and poverty. The production process is similar for some subsectors...
The convergence process of compulsory schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000
Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has...
Planning for the optimal mix of paygo tax and funded savings
DE MENIL, GEORGES, MURTIN, FABRICE, SHESHINSKI, EYTAN
We analyze the optimal balance between social security taxation and private saving in the provision of retirement income in dynamically efficient economies, a question at the center of policy debates...
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
This paper presents an historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010. We use data on total enrolment in Primary, Secondary and at University to estimate...
Education inequalities and the Kuznets curves: a global perspective since 1870
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
This paper presents a new dataset on educational attainment (primary, secondary and tertiary schooling) at the world level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly...
American Education in the Age of Mass Migrations 1870-1930
Murtin, Fabrice, Viarengo, Martina
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870-1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct the...
optimal matching
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto (2007)database....
The Convergence of Compulsory Schooling in Western Europe: 1950-2000
Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo
This paper examines the expansion of compulsory schooling in fifteen Western European countries over the period 1950-2000. We show that a convergence process of mandatory years of schooling has...
Christian Morrisson, Fabrice Murtin
This paper presents a historical database on educational attainment in 74 countries for the period 1870-2010, using perpetual inventory methods before 1960 and then the Cohen and Soto database. We...
Prudential Regulation and Competition in Financial Markets
Rudiger Ahrend, Jens Arnold, Fabrice Murtin
This paper examines how a range of stability-oriented regulatory policies for banking and insurance are related to selected stability and competition outcomes in these sectors. Based on survey...
Have more strictly regulated banking systems fared better during the recent financial crisis?
Ahrend, Rudiger, Arnold, Jens, Murtin, Fabrice
We assess whether during the recent financial crisis banking systems in countries with more stringent prudential banking regulation have proved more stable. We find indicators of regulatory strength...
Le bénéfice de la santé. Un apport des théories de la croissance endogène
Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, Fabrice Murtin
This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both, the...
What Determines Productivity in Senegal? Sectoral Disparities and the Dual Labour Market
Damien Echevin, Fabrice Murtin
This paper analyses the output gap between the formal and informal sectors in Senegal using a matched employer-employee database. While the production process in some informal sub-sectors is similar...
The Relationship Between Health and Growth: When Lucas Meets Nelson-Phelps
Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt, Fabrice Murtin
This paper revisits the relationship between health and growth in light of modern endogenous growth theory. We propose a unified framework that encompasses the growth effects of both the rate of...
American education in the age of mass migrations 1870–1930
Fabrice Murtin, Martina Viarengo
This paper derives original series of average years of schooling in the United States 1870–1930, which take into account the impact of mass migrations on the US educational level. We reconstruct...
A Framework for Assessing Green Growth Policies
Alain De Serres, Fabrice Murtin, Giuseppe Nicoletti
This paper proposes an analytical framework for assessing policies that will contribute to a better integration of environmental externalities in the pursuit of economic efficiency and growth...