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Voting with your Children: A Positive Analysis of Child Labour Laws

Doepke, Matthias; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We develop a positive theory of the adoption of child-labour regulation, based on two key mechanisms. First, parental decisions on family size interact with their preferences for child-labour regulation. Second, the supply of child labour affects skilled and unskilled wages. If policies are...

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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?

Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...

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Technology Dissemination and Economic Growth: Some Lessons for the New Economy

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper attempts to draw lessons for the New Economy from what economists know about technology dissemination and economic growth. It argues that what is most notable about the New Economy is that it is knowledge-driven, not just in the sense that knowledge now assumes increasing importance...

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Long-Run GDP Growth Framework and Scenarios for the World Economy

Duval, Romain; Maisonneuve, Christine de la - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper develops and applies a simple “conditional growth” framework to make long-term GDP projections for the world economy, taking as a starting point recent empirical evidence about the importance of total factor productivity and human capital in explaining current cross-country...

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Educational Attainment in the OECD, 1960-95

de la Fuente, Angel; Doménech, Rafael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This document describes the construction of series on the educational attainment of the adult population in a sample of 21 OECD countries for the period 1960-95. These series are a revised version of the data set described in de la Fuente and Doménech (2000).

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Human Capital and the Future of Transition Economies

Spagat, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Transition economies have an initial condition of high human capital relative to GDP per capita, giving them high … economics from transition economics. …

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Do Markets Favour Women's Human Capital More Than Planners?

Münich, Daniel; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …

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Are Endowments Fate?

Nugent, Jeffrey B; Robinson, James A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

In recent theories of comparative development the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet what explains comparative institutional evolution? We investigate this issue by studying the coffee exporting economies of Latin America. While homogeneous in many ways, they experienced...

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Origins and Consequences of Child Labour Restrictions: A Macroeconomic Perspective

Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper we investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labour restrictions for economic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire equilibrium may be inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the imposition of...

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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...

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