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The Devil is in the Shadow – Do Institutions Affect Income and Productivity or only Official Income and Official Productivity?

Dreher, Axel; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2007

This paper assesses the relationship between institutions, output, and productivity, when official output is corrected for the size of the shadow economy. Our results confirm the usual positive impact of institutional quality on official output and total factor productivity, and its negative...

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Making market information services work better for the poor in Uganda:

Ferris, Shaun; Engoru, Patrick; Kaganzi, Elly - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2008

"There is growing pressure for farmers in countries such as Uganda to accelerate their efforts to commercialize production in the face of increasing market competition from neighboring countries and across the world. To assist farmers, a new generation of low cost market information services is...

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Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Maluccio, John A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

education and children's clothing. We also examine individual-level education outcomes and find that parents do not have … not pool their income. Moreover, the collective model predicts that intrahousehold allocations reflect differences in …

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AIDS, poverty, and hunger: challenges and responses

Gillespie, Stuart - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2006

...the authors examine the impacts of HIV and AIDS on labor markets and wages, household income and consumption dynamics, and on the …

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Cash transfer programs with income multipliers

Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Davis, Benjamin; de Janvry, Alain - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

additional income. The ultimate income effects are multiples of the amounts transferred. This paper analyzes the PROCAMPO program …, nonindigenous backgrounds, and households located in the Center and Gulf regions. High multipliers reflect marginal income …

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Intrahousehold allocation and gender relations

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Maluccio, John A. - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2000

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Cash transfer programs with income multipliers

Sadoulet, Elisabeth; Davis, Benjamin; de Janvry, Alain - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2001

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Whose education matters in the determination of household income

Jolliffe, Dean - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 1997

-level income functions. The accepted practice in the literature is to use the education level of the household head. This paper … the household is a better explanatory variable of household income. Least absolute deviations (LAD) estimators and … censored least absolute deviations (CLAD) estimators are used to predict income. Standard errors, which are robust to …

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia; Long, Ngo Van; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2009

attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …

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