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A Model of Demographic and Economic Processe Interaction
Olenev, Nicholas; Sarancha, Dmitry - EconWPA - 2003
in education, (ii) the production level depends on the education level, and (iii) the pollution ia directly prportional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408298
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Water Rights Arrangements in Australia and Overseas
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
There are significant differences in the way water rights are defined, allocated and administered in Australia and overseas. This paper includes comparisons of the arrangements for managing water rights against accepted best practice principles for South Au stralia, Queensland, NSW, Victoria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556157
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Industrialization and Infant Mortality
Federman, Maya; Levine, David I. - EconWPA - 2005
. At the same time, pollution from factories appears quite harmful to infants. The overall effect was slightly higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118693
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POLLUTION AND WELFARE IN THE PRESENCE OF INFORMAL SECTOR: IS THERE ANY TRADE-OFF?
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - EconWPA - 2005
the informal manufacturing sector creates pollution, higher the use of informal sector product, higher is the pollution … created and higher the discrepancy between actual and permissible levels of pollution, so that the emission tax payable by the … formal sector is also higher. The efficiency of a representative worker is inversely related to the level of pollution. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118943
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"Waste in the Inner City: Asset or Assault?"
Ackerman, Frank; Mirza, Sumreen - EconWPA - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125982
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The Anarchy of Numbers: Aid, Development, and Cross-country Empirics
Roodman, David - EconWPA - 2004
Recent literature contains many stories of how foreign aid affects economic growth. All the stories hinge on the statistical significance in cross-country regressions of a quadratic term involving aid. Among the stories are that aid raises growth (on average) 1) in countries where economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407636
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Inequality and Growth: Does Time Change Anything
Gobbin, Niko; Rayp, Glenn - EconWPA - 2004
The econometric analysis of economic growth has always been subject to major flaws and shortcomings. Data scarcity and reliability, parameter heterogeneity, omitted variables bias, endogeneity problems, ... have seriously tainted estimation results. In this paper we propose an alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407640
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Intelligence, Human Capital, and Economic Growth: A Bayesian Averaging of Classical Estimates (BACE) Approach
Jones, Garett; Schneider, W. Joel - EconWPA - 2005
Human capital plays an important role in the theory of economic growth, but it has been difficult to measure this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407739
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Mortality Rate and Property Rights in a Model with Human Capital and R&D
Sequeira, Tiago - EconWPA - 2004
We use a set of established growth models, which simultaneously include human capital and R&D, to show that the effect of mortality rate in human capital accumulation is quantitatively more important than the effect of perfectly guaranteed patents on research. First, we show that the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407750
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CRECIMIENTO, INSTITUCIONES Y CONVERGENCIA EN MEXICO CONSIDERANDO A LA FRONTERA NORTE
Diaz-Bautista, Alejandro; Celaya, Diana - EconWPA - 2004
El presente estudio se centra en uno de los problemas económicos regionales fundamentales de nuestra época: el desenvolvimiento económico de la convergencia y el crecimiento en las regiones considerando a las instituciones. El estudio se ocupa de revisar la literatura teórica del crecimiento...
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