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Inequality And Group Participation: Theory And Evidence From Rural Tanzania

La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the …

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Non-Keynesian Effects of Fiscal Policy Changes: International Evidence and the Swedish Experience

Giavazzi, Francesco; Pagano, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

In earlier work we documented two episodes in which a sharp fiscal consolidation was associated with a surprisingly large expansion in private domestic demand. In this paper we draw on further evidence to investigate if and when fiscal policy changes can have such non-Keynesian effects. In the...

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Non-Separable Preferences and Frisch Labor Supply: One Solution to a Fiscal Policy Puzzle

Bilbiie, Florin Ovidiu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper proposes a theoretical explanation of the empirical finding that private consumption increases in response to an increase in government spending. The explanation requires two ingredients. First, labor demand expands (e.g. prices are sticky). Second, general non-separable preferences...

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Fiscal Policy, Wealth Effects and Markups

Monacelli, Tommaso; Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We document that an increase in government purchases generates a rise in consumption, the real and the product wage, and a fall in the markup. This evidence is robust across alternative empirical methodologies used to identify innovations in government spending (structural VAR vs. narrative...

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Leaving Home and Living Alone: An Historical Perspective

Wall, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987

continuities in household composition. In particular, households in the pre-industrial era were no more likely than present … resulted in a household composition which resembles that produced by early widowhood in the seventeenth century. Nor has the … to illustrate household types. The paper concludes by suggesting that a standard set of tables should be agreed upon and …

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Interpreting the 'One Big Wave' in US Long-Term Productivity Growth

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

mysterious doubling in the ratio of output to capital input when the postwar era is compared with 1870-1929. Measurement … the measurement of capital. A new MFP series taking account of all these adjustments grows more slowly throughout, and the …

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The Mirage of Convergence: Why Poor Countries May Only Seem to Be Closing the Income Gap

Filer, Randall K; Hajkova, Dana; Hanousek, Jan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Replication of two recent studies of growth determinants shows that results are sensitive to the choice of data from which growth rates are calculated, especially with respect to whether economic convergence has occurred. Previous warnings against using data that has been adjusted to increase...

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On the Measurement of Trade Costs: Direct vs. Indirect Approaches to Quantifying Standards and Technical Regulations

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

In this article, we review the literature on the measurement of trade costs in international trade with a special …

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New Estimates of British Unemployment, 1870-1913

Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Existing estimates of the annual unemployment rate from 1870 to 1913 were constructed by the Board of Trade, initially in 1888, and updated thereafter. This is still the series which is widely used and cited. It is based on records of the number unemployed in various trade unions and it has a...

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Choosing to Compete: How different are girls and boys?

Booth, Alison L; Nolen, Patrick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

Using a controlled experiment, we examine the role of nurture in explaining the stylized fact that women shy away from …

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