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climate change economics, by surveying the attitudes of over 3000 people to risk, time, and income inequality.  The results …
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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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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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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 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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-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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Trade of the OECD countries has grown faster than income during the postwar period. This paper tests a number of … different hypotheses for the observed growth in the trade/income ratio. For small open economies, increases in real output and …
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This paper studies variation in individual labor income over time using a panel vector autoregression (PVAR) in income … variation in labor income is due to residual variation in the wage rate, work hours, and unemployment hours. I also explore the … their contribution to short-run and long-run income movements. The model is estimated on a sample of male household heads …
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This paper assesses the quantitative importance of a number of sources of income risk for household welfare and … precautionary saving. To that end I construct a lifecycle consumption model in which household income is subject to shocks … associated with disability, health, unemployment, job changes, wages, work hours, and a residual component of household income. I …
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