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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U …-shaped. At the same time, average hours worked increase monotonically with women's education. This pattern is true for all women … baby-sitting and housekeeping. Highly educated women substitute a significant part of their own time for market services to …

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Pro-poor trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa

Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Porto, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential pro-poor bias in the existing structure of protection in six countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) (i.e., whether it redistributes income from rich to poor households). We also explore the extent to which the barriers faced by SSA...

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Human Development in Africa: A Long-run Perspective

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Long-run trends in Africa’s well-being are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP’s HDI. A sustained improvement in African human development is found that falls, nonetheless, short of those experienced in other developing regions. Within Africa,...

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The Marginal Cost of Public Funds in Developing Countries: An Application to 38 African Countries

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Warlters, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In this paper we propose estimates of the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) in 38 African countries. We develop a simple general equilibrium mode inspired by the “1-2-3” model of Devarajan et al. (1994) that can handle taxes on the five major tax classes, takes account of the informal...

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GM Food Crop Technology: Implications For Sub-Saharan Africa

Anderson, Kym; Jackson, Lee Ann - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop varieties sought to increase farmer profitability through cost reductions or higher yields. The next generation of GM food research is focusing also on breeding for attributes of interest to consumers, beginning with ‘golden rice’, which...

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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment

Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Can international migration promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability? In order to examine this question, we designed a behavioral measure of the population’s desire for better governance. A postcard was distributed to households with the pledge...

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Unrestricted Market Access for Sub-Saharan Africa: How Much is it Worth and Who Pays?

Ianchovichina, Elena; Mattoo, Aaditya; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries have recently been announced by the European Union, Japan and the United States. This Paper assesses the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) of these initiatives and others that might be taken. We find that fully unrestricted access...

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Would Multilateral Trade Reform Benefit Sub-Saharan Africans?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper examines whether, in the presence of trade preferences, Sub-Saharan African economies, and especially its poorest households, could gain from multilateral trade reform. The World Bank’s LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of current trade...

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Tax and Benefit Reform in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Heady, Christopher; Smith, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper analyses the changes to the tax and social security systems that have occurred since Czechoslovakia's `velvet revolution' in 1989. It shows how the tax system is moving to meet the requirements of a market economy. It suggests that a particularly high priority has to be given to...

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Women's Wages in Full- and Part-Time Jobs in Great Britain

Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …

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