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New Estimates of Government Net Capital Stocks for 22 OECD Countries 1960-2001

Kamps, Christophe - EconWPA - 2005

The issue of whether government capital is productive has received a great deal of recent attention. Yet empirical analyses of public capital productivity have generally been limited to the official capital stock estimates available in a small sample of countries. Alternatively, many researchers...

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew - EconWPA - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth determination. The data includes over 3,000 cross-sectional observations and 39 demographic control variables. The large number of observations provides enough degrees of freedom to...

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Tax Burden and the Mismeasurement of State Tax Policy

Reed, W. Robert; Rogers, Cynthia L. - EconWPA - 2005

Tax Burden, defined as the ratio of total tax revenues over personal income, is prominently used to summarize state tax policy. We analyze the empirical relationship between changes in Tax Burden and changes in state tax policy from 1987 to 2000 – as measured by states’ own forecasts of the...

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The inefficiency of firm-augmenting public input vs. The inapplicability of provision rules

Colombier, Carsten - EconWPA - 2004

This paper contributes to the debate about the appropriate efficiency rule for the provision of a firm-augmenting public input. This debate is caused by the dissatisfaction of Kaizuka-rule, i.e. a Samuelson-type condition for public inputs, in the long run. Therefore the applicability of...

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A MODEL OF CORRUPTION IN AN INVESTMENT PROJECT

Sikdar, Soumyen; Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005

The present paper analyzes the phenomenon of corruption in the context of a Public Works Department (PWD) in a developing country city and examines its tenacity in the face of anticorruption measures. Different behaviour patterns of the supervisor (official) of the PWD have been considered. The...

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Subsidios de Educación: Impacto en la Migración y Convergencia Regional.

Duran, Gonzalo - EconWPA - 2005

: During the last couple of decades, the migratory movements in Chile have been minimum, regions are far from achieving match in the per capíta income, situation that would give persistence to the regional inequity. According to studies, in 52 years, half of the gap between a rich and a poor...

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The evolution and convergence of the government expenditure composition in the OECD countries: an analysis of the functional distribution

Sanz, Ismael; Velázquez, Francisco J. - EconWPA - 2001

, 1996). This paper has explored the existence of convergence in the structure of government expenditure by functions in the … first through the similarity index and afterwards using the usual convergence indicators (ƒÒ, ƒã and ƒ×), adapted to the … that there are some individual factors that impede the convergence to a single structure in the long run. This could be one …

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MRS. GANDHI GAVE NEW ECONOMIC APPROACHES

SUBRAMANIAM, DR. VSR. - EconWPA - 2004

Plenty of food, Sufficient clothing, Proper monitoring of the Key Socio- Economic factors, with commitment to Domestic Productivity were the Essence of the Administrative strategy of Mrs. Indira Gandhi (Late Prime Minister of India). These approaches could be critically related to the remarkable...

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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005

If bigger objects go into a jar, then there will be space to fill it with smaller objects in sequence. If the order of the objects are reversed, then it ends in filling it at the starting point. Happiness in life is similar to this. Fill high priority needs in the life, and smaller needs can be...

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Fiscal Policy and Educational Attainment in the United States - A Generational Accounting Perspective

Chojnicki, Xavier; Docquier, Frederic - EconWPA - 2003

In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale and al. (1999) and disaggregate them per schooling level. We show that low skill newborns are characterized by a negative generational...

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