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The Specific Allocation Fund (DAK) : Mechanism and Uses

Usman, Syaikhu; Mawardi, M. Sulton; Poesoro, Adri; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

This study aims to analyze the management of the Specific Allocation Fund (DAK). The three largest DAK-recipient sectors are the focus of the study : education, health, and roads infrastructure. The study sample areas are four districts. This paper was compiled based on the results of in-depth...

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Economic Growth in a Cross-Section of Cities

Glaeser, Edward L. - 1995

We examine the relationship between urban characteristics in 1960 and urban growth (income and population) between 1960 and 1990. Our major findings are that income and population growth move together and both types of growth are (1) positively related to initial schooling, (2) negatively...

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Regional Growth and Migration : A Japan-U.S. Comparison

Barro, Robert J. - 1992

Do poor economies grow faster than rich ones? This important economic question (which we call [beta]-convergence) is … of convergence in both countries: poor prefectures and states grow faster. We also find that there is intraregional as … well as interregional convergence. We analyze the cross sectional standard deviation across prefectures and states. We find …

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What Changes Gini Coefficients of Education? On the dynamic interaction between education, its distribution and growth

Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011

We are interested in the relation between Gini coefficients of education, educational variables, and growth. We specify a system of 14 difference equations with lagged dependent variables in education variables, as well as a growth regression, auxiliary equations for savings and investment...

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Technology and the Changing Family: a Unified Model of Marriage, Divorce Educational Attainment and Married Female Labor-Force Participation

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kocharkov, Georgi; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015

Marriage has declined since 1960, with the drop being bigger for non-college educated individuals versus college educated ones. Divorce has increased, more so for the non-college educated. Additionally, positive assortative mating has risen. Income inequality among households has also widened. A...

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From Access to Income : Regional and Ethnic Inequality in Indonesia

Suryadarma, Daniel; Widyanti, Wenefrida; Suryahadi, Asep; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

This study investigates regional and ethnic inequality in Indonesia from five dimensions : access to education and health facilities, education outcome, health outcome, voice, as well as income and consumption. We believe this is the first comprehensive study that looks at ethnic inequality in...

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Rural Nonfarm Employment and Incomes in the Himalayas

Micevska, Maja; Rahut, Dil Bahadur - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008

Nonfarm activities generate on average about 60 percent of rural households incomes in the Himalayas. This paper analyzes the determinants of participation in nonfarm activities and of nonfarm incomes across rural households. A unique data set collected in the Himalayan region of India allows us...

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Government Debt and Capital Accumulation in an Era of Low Interest Rates

Mankiw, Nicholas Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...

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Equalizing Health and Education : Approach of the Twelfth Finance Commission

Srivastava, D. K. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006

Service standards in the provision of health and education in the states in India are low on average and also characterized by large inter-state disparities. These disparities are due to differences in fiscal capacity, differences in revenue effort and differences in priority accorded to the...

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Latent Heterogeneity in the Marginal Propensity to Consume

Lewis, Daniel J.; Melcangi, Davide; Pilossoph, Laura - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We estimate the unconditional distribution of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) using clustering regression applied to the 2008 economic stimulus payments. By deviating from the standard approach of estimating MPC heterogeneity using interactions with observables, we can recover the full...

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