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Risk, inequality and time in the welfare economics of climate change: is the workhorse model underspecified?

Hepburn, Cameron; Hakon SÃƒÂ¦len; Atkinson, Giles - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

climate change economics, by surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, time, and income inequality. The results …

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Farm productivity and efficiency in rural Bangladesh: The role of education revisited

Asadullah, M. Niaz; Rahman, Sanzidur - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2005

This paper reassesses the debate over the role of education in farm production in Bangladesh using a large dataset on rice producing households from 141 villages. Average and stochastic production functions are estimated to ascertain the effect of education on productivity and efficiency. A full...

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Automatic Selection for Non-linear Models

Castle, Jennifer; Hendry, David - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Our strategy for automatic selection in potentially non-linear processes is: test for non-linearity in the unrestricted linear formulation; if that test rejects, specify a general model using polynomials, to be simplified to a minimal congruent representation; finally select by encompassing...

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Intrahousehold Allocation of Education Expenditure and Returns to Education: The Case of Sri Lanka

Himaz, Rozana - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

This paper uses demand analysis to explore whether intrahousehold allocation of education expenditure differs between boys and girls in rural Sri Lanka. Contrary to most countries in South Asia a significant bias favouring girls is found in 1990/91 for the 5-9 and 17-19 age groups and in...

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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

The returns to education remain a central concern for development policy. In developed countries there is evidence that the returns to education have been rising. Evidence for changes over this period for developing countries is limited. In this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to...

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The role of income in money demand during hyper-inflation: the case of Yugoslavia

Nielsen, Bent; Mladenovic, Zorica - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

-inflation variables such as real income has been given a somewhat passive role, either assuming it exogenous or to have a negligible role … extreme Yugoslavian episode to investigate the role of income. The analysis suggests that even in extreme hyper-inflation the … monetary variables and real income are simultaneously determined. The methodology enables a description of the short term …

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PUBLIC EXPENDITURES GROWTH IN GREECE AND PORTUGAL: WAGNER'S LAW AND BEYOND.

COURAKIS, S.; MOURA-ROQUE, F.; TRIDIMAS, G. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1990

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Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China.

Knight, J.; Shi, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996

We have posed an interesting and possibly original question: Why are Chinese villages that are so close together geographically so far apart economically? We have developed an answer in terms of factor immobiblities and processes of cumulative causation. Our results are not conclusive: Sharper...

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A Note on Leisure Inequality in the US: 1965-2003

Sanz, Almudena Sevilla; Nadal, Jose Ignacio GImenez - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

consistent with a model of quality-quantity of leisure, where individuals substitute quality for quantity as their income rises. …

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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality.

Knight, J.; Shi, L.; Renwei, Z. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each …

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