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Awareness and AIDS: A Political Economy Perspective

Aldashev, Gani; Baland, Jean-Marie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Across African countries, prevention policies are unrelated to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS and, even in countries in which they were successful, these policies are often unstable or reversed. To explain these two puzzles, we propose a simple political economy model that examines how prevention...

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The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate

Cavalcanti, Tiago; Tavares, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

a gender wage gap, associated with lower female labour force participation rates and higher fertility. This paper … presents a growth model where saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenously determined, and there is wage … through an increase in fertility. We find that for several countries a large fraction of the actual difference in output per …

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Duration of Marriage, Fertility and Female Employment Opportunities in England and Wales in 1911

Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

shown that a substantial number of couples used birth control for 'spacing' as well as 'stopping' fertility. Moreover … good. In general the results obtained do not fit with the 'Princeton' view of the European fertility transition, with its …

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From Malthusian Stagnation to Modern Growth

Galor, Oded; Weil, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper examines the historical evolution of the relationship between population growth, technological change, and the standard of living. It considers several unified models that encompass the transition between three distinct regimes that have characterized the process of economic...

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Population, Technology and Growth: From the Malthusian Regime to the Demographic Transition

Galor, Oded; Weil, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

This paper develops a unified model of growth, population, and technological progress that is consistent with long-term historical evidence. The economy endogenously evolves through three phases. In the Malthusian regime, population growth is positively related to the level of income per capita....

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Structural and Stabilization Aspects of Fiscal and Financial Policy in the Dependent Economy

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

The paper considers the response of a small, open dependent economy to a variety of fiscal and financial shocks. It also examines the influence of alternative budget-balancing rules on the response of the economy to external shocks, such as a change in the world interest rate. The approach...

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The Current Global Economic Situation, Outlook and Policy Options, with Special Emphasis on Fiscal Policy Issues

Buiter, Willem H. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

The paper provides an account of the current global economic situation, outlook and policy options. Medium-term prospects are mediocre and fraught with considerable downside risk. Fiscal and monetary policy options for the main industrial countries to improve global economic performance are...

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When the North Last Headed South: Revisiting the 1930s

Reinhart, Carmen M.; Reinhart, Vincent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The U.S recession of 2007 to 2009 is unique in the post-World-War-II experience by the broad company it kept. Activity contracted around the world, with the advanced countries of the North experiencing declines in spending normally the purview of the developing economies of the South. The last...

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External Debt, Capital Flight and Political Risk

Alesina, Alberto F; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

This paper provides an explanation of the simultaneous occurrence in developing countries of a large accumulation of external debt, private capital outflows and relatively low domestic capital formation. We consider a general equilibrium model in which two types of government with conflicting...

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An Economic Model of Household Income Dynamics, with an Application to Poverty Dynamics among American Women

Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

The rise in inequality and poverty is one of the most important economic and social issues in recent times. But in contrast to the literature on individual earnings inequality, there has been little work modelling (as opposed to documenting) household income dynamics. This is largely because of...

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