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Fertility and the oil curse
The paper empirically investigates whether oil abundance affects fertility in a panel of develo** and developed countries for 1970–2020. The exploration sheds light into why poor develo** economies rich in...
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The moderating role of financial development in the nexus between population aging and saving
The paper empirically investigates the saving consequence of population aging, an issue that is important for policymaking and still far from uncontroversial. Rather than providing another piece of evidence to...
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Open AccessShared genetic architectures of educational attainment in East Asian and European populations
Educational attainment (EduYears), a heritable trait often used as a proxy for cognitive ability, is associated with various health and social outcomes. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWASs) on EduY...
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Boosting the power of genome-wide association studies within and across ancestries by using polygenic scores
Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have been mostly conducted in populations of European ancestry, which currently limits the transferability of their findings to other populations. Here, we show, through...
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Carbon dioxide emissions, financial development and political institutions
The paper empirically examines whether and how political institutions shape the nexus between finance and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. In a sample of develo** and developed countries, it finds that financial...
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Financial liberalization, political institutions, and income inequality
Rising income inequality coinciding with financial liberalization has stimulated extensive studies on the possible links between income inequality and different forms of financial liberalization, both inputs a...
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Oil Abundance and Income Inequality
The paper empirically investigates the impact of natural resource abundance, in particular oil, on income disparities. It employs common correlated effects pooled mean group methodology for estimation to accou...
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Natural Resources and Economic Development: New Panel Evidence
The question as to whether natural resources are a curse on economic growth and development is subject to considerable debates and remains controversial. Using heterogeneous panel cointegration techniques, thi...
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The link between economic growth and growth volatility
This paper investigates the relationship between economic growth and growth volatility through simultaneous equations system. By employing the identification through heteroskedasticity method of Rigobon (Rev E...
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Gene cloning and characterization of a soybean (Glycine max L.) LEA protein, GmPM16
Late embryogenesis abundant (LEA) proteins, present in abundance in seeds during the late stages of development, are associated with desiccation tolerance. In the present work, we characterize a soybean LEA pr...
