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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We...

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The Ethical Foundations of Population Policies

Dasgupta, Partha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984

of future population size. The essay begins with a summary of welfare economic theory as it pertains to situations where … population size is not subject to choice, and notes that a symmetry (or anonymity) axiom on social welfare functions has almost … invariably been invoked in the theory. It then summarizes optimum population theory and emphasizes that the existing theory …

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Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …

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New Evidence on the Fertility Transition in Ireland 1880-1911

O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991

Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are reassessed. Revised county estimates of Ig are subjected to regression analysis, and added insight into CPA is offered by comparing Ireland with Scotland and applying the measure...

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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro F; Kinoshita, Yuko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms –privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization– as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...

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Market Access for Sale: Latin America's Lobbying for US Tariff Preferences

Kee, Hiau Looi; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American countries. The basic framework is one developed by Grossman and Helpman (1994) that is extended to explain the relationship between foreign lobbying and tariff...

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Employment Laws in Developing Countries

Djankov, Simeon; Ramalho, Rita - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We survey the research on the effect of employment laws in developing countries, using papers published since 2004. The survey is further supported by cross-country correlation analyses. Both exercises show that developing countries with rigid employment laws tend to have larger informal sectors...

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Common Factors in Latin America’s Business Cycles

Aiolfi, Marco; Catão, Luis A. V.; Timmermann, Allan G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a common factor approach to reconstruct new business cycle indices for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico ("LAC-4") from an unprecedentedly comprehensive dataset spanning 135 years. We establish the robustness of our indices through a variety of tests, use the indices to explore...

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Institutions and the Historical Roots of Latin American Divergence

Bértola, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this essay we analyze the relation between long-term growth and institutional development. Relative backwardness has been a constant feature of the history of Latin America. In the wake of Independence the gap between Latin America and the industrializing world was already wide and widened...

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Lost Decades: Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

Bates, Robert H; Coatsworth, John H; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...

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