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Trade Liberalisation and Poverty in Nepal A Computable General Equilibrium Micro Simulation Analysis
Cockburn, John - EconWPA - 2004
Concern is growing regarding the poverty impacts of trade liberalization. The strong general equilibrium effects of trade liberalization can only be properly analysed in a CGE model. However, the aggregate nature of CGE models is not suited to detailed poverty analysis. We bridge this gap by...
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Within-the-family education and its impact on equality
Nordblom, Katarina - EconWPA - 2001
This is a theoretical study of human-capital formation, where parental, as well as public investments are essential. Policy influence rich and poor parents differently when they make educational decisions. Rich parents allocate resources efficiently between physical bequests and educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125917
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Changing Pattern of Poverty 1997-2004
Angeriz, Alvaro; Chakravarty, Shanti - EconWPA - 2005
It has been noted that failure to meet the target set by government for reducing the head count ratio of child poverty in Britain is partly due to the success of government policy in generating economic growth. Apart from missing the argument that absolute poverty is not a meaningful idea, this...
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Movements Into and Out of Child Poverty in New Zealand: Results from the Linked Income Supplement
Ballantyne, Suzie; Chapple, Simon; Maré, David C.; … - EconWPA - 2004
This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by children’s households in New Zealand over the 1997/98, 1998/99, and 1999/2000 periods are analysed. The annual Income Supplement to the Household Labour Force Survey allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134624
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The Role of Endogenous Skill Choice in an Aging Economy
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This chapter analyzes the effects of an aging population on individual skill choices and the production structure by means of a dynamic general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and probabilistic aging. The model allows for capital-skill complementarity, which strongly affects the...
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Hidden Teacher Effort in Educational Production: Monitoring vs. Merit Pay
Jaag, Christian - EconWPA - 2005
This paper deals with the optimality of teacher incentive contracts in the presence of costly or limited government resources. It considers educational production under asymmetric information as a function of teacher effort and class size. In the presence of costly government resources and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076924
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School Characteristics and the Demand for College
Bezmen, Trisha; II, Craig A. Depken - EconWPA - 1996
We estimate the demand for colleges in the United States by relating new applications to easily comparable characteristics of the schools in the sample. We find that the demand for 1134 U.S. colleges in 1994 is positively related to out-of-state tuition but inversely related to in- state...
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Education, Inequality and Violent Crime in Minas Gerais
Puech, Frédéric - EconWPA - 2005
role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … model for 723 municipalities of Minas Gerais, one of the 26 Brazilian states. Education has a significant reducing effect …
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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective
Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004
mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has … nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based …
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MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR MODELLING THE HEALTH SECTOR:NIGERIA
NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2005
GOOD HEALTH IS A CRUCIAL PART OF WELL-BEING BUT SPENDING ON HEALTH CAN BE JUSTIFIED ON ECONOMIC GROUNDS. THE GOAL OF … REDUCING POVERTY PROVIDES A DIFFERENT BUT EQUALLY POWERFUL CASE FOR HEALTH INVESTMENTS. HOWEVER, IF POLICYMAKERS ARE TO … ACCELERATE THE SUBSTANTIAL HEALTH GAINS OF RECENT DECADES, ESPECIALLY FOR THE POOR IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NIGERIA, THE …
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