Nber Working Paper Series Explaining Inequality the World Round: Cohort Size, Kuznets Curves, and Openness
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We would like to thank Abhijit Banerjee, Angus Deaton, Michael Kremer, Andrew Warner, David Weil and participants at the Harvard-MIT Growth and Development Workshop for helpful comments and suggestions. In addition, we are grateful to Leonardo Bartolini and Alan Drazen for providing a tabulation of the IMF data on capital controls. All opinions expressed are those of the authors and not those of the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York or the Federal Reserve System.
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