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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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"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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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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...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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997203
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997280
-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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attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main …
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We investigate the evolution of global welfare in two dimensions: income per capita and life expectancy. First, we … estimate the marginal distributions of income and life expectancy separately. More importantly, in contrast to previous … univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 …
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