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William Easterly
Researcher at New York University
Publications - 253
Citations - 51357
William Easterly is an academic researcher from New York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Per capita income & Investment (macroeconomics). The author has an hindex of 93, co-authored 253 publications receiving 49657 citations. Previous affiliations of William Easterly include York University & Center for Global Development.
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Africa's Growth Tragedy: Policies and Ethnic Divisions
William Easterly,Ross Levine +1 more
TL;DR: This article showed that ethnic diversity helps explain cross-country differences in public policies and other economic indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa, and that high ethnic fragmentation explains a significant part of most of these characteristics.
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Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies, and conclude that ethnic conflict is an important determinant of local public finances.
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The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of the history of the big push and its connections to the present day: 1. Planners Versus Searchers WHY PLANNERS CANNOT BRING PROSPERITY 2. The Legend of the Big Push 3. You Can't Plan a Market 4. Planers and Gangsters ACTING OUT THE BURDEN 5. The Rich Have Markets, the Poor Have Bureaucrats 6. Bailing Out the Poor 7. The Healers: Triumph and Tragedy The White Man's ARMY 8. Invading the Poor
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Public goods and ethnic divisions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model that links heterogeneity of preferences across ethnic groups in a city to the amount and type of public goods the city supplies, showing that the shares of spending on productive public goods - education, roads, sewers, and trash pickup - in U.S. cities (metro areas/urban counties) are inversely related to the city's ethnic fragmentation.
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth: An Empirical Investigation
William Easterly,Sergio Rebelo +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the empirical regularities relating fiscal policy variables, the level of development and the rate of growth are described, and they employ historical data, recent cross-section data, and newly constructed public investment series.