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Unhappiness and Crime: Evidence from South Africa

Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2003

This paper is the first of its kind to study quality of life responses of crime victims. Using cross-sectional data from the OHS97 survey of South Africa, we show that victims report significantly lower well-being than the non-victims, ceteris paribus. Happiness is lower for nonvictimized...

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Stigma and Social Control

Blume, Lawrence E. - EconWPA - 2003

Social interactions provide a set of incentives for regulating individual behavior. Chief among these is stigma, the … context of undertaking criminal acts. Stigma is a flow cost of uncertain duration which varies negatively with the number of … individual chooses the behavior that, if detected, is stigmatized. The comparative static analysis of stigma costs differs from …

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The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Labor Supply of Married Couples

Eissa, Nada; Hoynes, Hilary Williamson - EconWPA - 2000

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SAVINGS MOBILIZATION ROLE OF NIGERIAN COMMERCIAL BANKS:AN ANALYTICAL POLICY STUDY

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2003

CAPITAL ACCUMULATION HAS BEEN EMPHASISED AS THE MAJOR FACTOR GOVERING THE RATE OF DEVELOPMENT. THIS STUDY THEREFORE AIMS EXPLORING IN THE LIGHT OF PAST TRENDS, THE ROLE AND SCOPE OF COMMERCIAL BANKS AS FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES IN MOBILIZING DOMESTIC SAVINGS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND THE CONSTRAINTS IN...

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Effects of changes in flows of funds between Government and households.A SAM approach to Portugal.

Santos, Susana - EconWPA - 2005

Through the use of aggregate Social Accounting Matrices for Portugal, the flows of funds from three government subsectors to households will be studied, as well as the flows from the latter to the former. From the SAM modelling, both a static and a comparative static analysis will be made, in...

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Welfare Benefits and Work Incentives. An Analysis of the Distribution of Net Replacement Rates in Europe using EUROMOD, a Multi- Country Microsimulation Model.

Immervoll, Herwig; O'Donoghue, Cathal - EconWPA - 2003

This paper considers the methodology of measuring replacement rates, comparing simulation based approaches, which simulate replacement rates for a representative sample of the population, with other approaches that simulate replacement rates for "typical" families or are entirely based on...

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Cost savings of unit-based pricing of household waste: The case of the Netherlands

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - EconWPA - 2004

Using a panel data set for Dutch municipalities we estimate effects for weight-based, bag-based, frequency-based and volume-based pricing of household waste collection. Unit-based pricing shows to be effective in reducing solid and compostable and increasing recyclable waste. Pricing has no...

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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...

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Indicators of unemployment and low-wage traps (Marginal effective tax rates on labour)

Carone, Giuseppe; Salomaki, Aino; Immervoll, Herwig; … - EconWPA - 2004

This paper presents results of an on-going joint European Commission / OECD project, aimed at monitoring the direct influence of tax and benefit instruments on household incomes. Indicators of financial work incentives are needed for identifying any undesired influences of taxes and social...

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Análisis económico de la actitud hacia el fraude fiscal en España

Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; Sanzo-Perez, Maria Jose; … - EconWPA - 2005

This paper is inscribed in the literature on fiscal fraud and moral of taxpayers. We analyse the attitude of the Spaniards respect to two kinds of fraud: the hiding of income to pay less taxes and the hiding of information to benefit fraudulently from goods and services that otherwise one would...

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