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Schooling and Parental Death
Gertler, Paul; Levine, David I.; Ames, Minnie - EconWPA - 2003
Loss of a parent is one of the most traumatic events a child can face. If loss of a parent reduces investments in children, it can also have long-lasting implications. This study uses parametric and semi-nonparametric matching techniques to estimate how one human capital investment, school...
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"Civil Economy and Civilized Economics: Essentials for Sustainable Development"
Goodwin, Neva; 2001, January - EconWPA - 2001
sustainable development. Looming environmental crises have served as a prime motivating force for reevaluating fundamental … begun to reshape economics. The broadest conception of sustainability is found if we understand sustainable development to … mean Socially And Environmentally Just And Sustainable development - "SAEJAS development". Throughout the paper we will see …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556099
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Does Governance Matter?Some Evidence from Indian States
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005
-dimensional, it is conceptualised as a goal and as a process that accelerates growth, equity and human development potential. We … development outcomes such as life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality rate and per capita income (logarithms of), within the … better quality of governance leads to better development outcomes. …
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What's in a Name?
Aura, Saku; Hess, Gregory D. - EconWPA - 2004
Plenty. This paper analyzes two broad questions: Does your first name matter? And how did you get your first name anyway? Using data from the National Opinion Research Center’s (NORC's) General Social Survey, including access to respondent’s first names from the 1994 and 2002 surveys, we...
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The Economics of Child Labor: Comment
Swinnerton, Kenneth A.; Rogers, Carol Ann - EconWPA - 1999
labor, "[g]eneral economic development, equitably distributed, is the best and most sustainable way of reducing child labor … while economic development and development policies are necessary to eliminating child labor, they are not always sufficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125821
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Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings
Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2000
This study uses Social Security earnings records matched to recent cross-sections of the SIPP and CPS to study the earnings progress of U.S. immigrants.The data show that immigrants' earnings grow 10 to 13 percent during their first twenty years in the U.S. relative to the earnings of natives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408366
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Human Capital in Transitional Russia
Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2002
.S. Current Population Survey 1992-2000, the returns to schooling are still lower in Russia; while the returns to experience are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076535
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the Transition Process in China: A theoretic and empirical Study
Pu, Chen; Chihying, Hsiao - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we analyse the driving forces of the transition from plan to market in China. A two segments and two sectors model is constructed to take into account the particular economic situation in China during the transition process: a large agricultural sector and an industrial sector; a...
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Political Competition in Economic Perspective
Bardhan, Pranab; Yang, Tsung-Tao - EconWPA - 2004
It is sometimes argued that political competition yields benefits to the citizens just as competition in economic markets yields benefits to consumers. We consider the economic costs and benefits of political competition and find that the story is somewhat more complicated. We first review the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556020
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The Determinants of Economic Well-being:An Application in the Indian States
Basu, Sudip Ranjan - EconWPA - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of economic well-being. We provide a methodology to compute well-being by aggregating different socio-economic dimensions with factor analysis technique. We also estimate quality of good governance (using latent variable approach) and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556056