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Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts
Karlan, Dean S.; Zinman, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Expanding credit access is a key ingredient of development strategies worldwide. Microfinance practitioners, policymakers, and donors have ambitious goals for expanding access, and seek efficient methods for implementing and evaluating expansion. There is less consensus on the role of consumer...
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The Role of Rents to Human Capital in Economic Development
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
steady states arise because rents to human capital are self perpetuating. Inequality in abilities may be good for growth … also good for growth because it gives the young property rights over their own human capital, which are thus equivalent to …
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Family Ties
Alesina, Alberto F; Giuliano, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
growth, but they may provide relief from stress, support to family members and increased wellbeing. We argue that the value …
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring any Jewish father to educate his children. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this exogenous change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history....
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Human Capital and Optimal Positive Taxation of Capital Income
Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper analyzes optimal linear taxes on capital and labour incomes in a life-cycle model of human capital investment, financial savings, and labour supply with heterogenous individuals. A dual income tax with a positive marginal tax rate on not only labour income but also capital income is...
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From Farmers to Merchants, Voluntary Conversions and Diaspora: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
From the end of the second century C.E., Judaism enforced a religious norm requiring Jewish fathers to educate their sons. We present evidence supporting our thesis that this change in the religious and social norm had a major influence on Jewish economic and demographic history. First, the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136751
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...
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The Economics of Human Cloning
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In this Paper, we analyse the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone's income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792154
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Taxes, Benefits, and Careers: Complete Versus Incomplete Markets
Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
An incomplete markets life-cycle model with indivisible labour makes career lengths and human capital accumulation respond to labour tax rates and government supplied non-employment benefits. We compare aggregate and individual outcomes in this individualistic incomplete markets model with those...
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Growth and Human Capital: A Network Approach
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Giannitsarou, Chryssi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We study the interactions and dynamics of human capital, growth and inequality by explicitly embedding networks into a … standard endogenous growth model with overlapping generations. The human capital of a household depends on investment in … often. During transition, (i) high overall growth is achieved when the network has high degree centralization and the most …
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