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Social ties within school classes –- the roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings
Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Kooreman, Peter - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper we identify the lines along which social ties between high school teenagers are primarily formed. To this end, we introduce interaction weights between pupils in the same school class that are a function of exogenous individual background characteristics, like gender, ethnicity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077075
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Food Expenditure, Food Preparation Time and Household Economies of Scale
Vernon, Victoria - EconWPA - 2004
This paper is concerned with the effect of household size on the allocation of household money and time to food consumption. A broad literature has examined household economies of scale. Since food is a private good, it might be expected that larger households, which could economize on shared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408293
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THE HIDDEN INEQUALITY IN SOCIALISM
Henderson, David; McNab, Robert M; Rozsas, Tamas - EconWPA - 2004
, measured inequality of income for those countries increased. Researchers linked the increase to the egalitarian values of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118811
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Measures of the Real GDP of U.S. Trading Partners: Methodology and Results
Santos, Claudio H. Dos; Shaikh, Anwar M.; Zezza, Gennaro - EconWPA - 2003
direct and export-share-weighted sums of trading-partner real GDPs. Finally, given that our new measures of GDP for these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124901
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Business Models For Transport eBusiness
Cisic, Dragan; Franciskovic, Ivan; Peric, Ana - EconWPA - 2003
In this paper authors are presenting expectations from electronic commerce and its connotations on transport logistics. Based on trends, the relations between the companies in the international transport have to be strengthened using Internet business models. In the paper authors are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119332
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MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT OF HAPPINESS : A PRIORITY IN SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Dr.VSR.Subramaniam - EconWPA - 2005
happiness, and it can induct problems as well. GDP, a vague relation builder is used as an index to measure the progress and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408439
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A PUSH TO GEORGE ( IN ) BUSH
DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005
An imperative need has arisen to provide a Constructive push to the President Bush. American population, Corporate units, Expatriates and all nations with their currency related to US $, are not happy in the current $ dipping situation. Even the currencies of poor nations are galloping upward in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556940
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An axes to activate the Egyptian securities market in saving development(in arabic)
Elasrj, Hussein A. Motlb - EconWPA - 2004
1999 to 2003.The total issues declined from LE 55.6 billion in 1999 or 17% of GDP and 146.7% of gross saving to LE 18 ….5 billion in 2003 and or 4.6% of GDP and 31.5% of gross saving .The total value of trading also dropped down from LE 42 ….1 billion or 12.9% of GDP and 111% of gross saving to LE33.7 billion or 8.3% of GDP and 57.2% of gross saving during the period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561577
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IS A TAX CUT ON CULTURAL GOODS CONSUMPTION ACTUALLY DESIRABLE?:A MICROSIMULATION ANALYSIS
Prieto-Rodriguez, Juan; Romero-Jordan, Desiderio; … - EconWPA - 2004
evaluated in terms of revenue and welfare. These types of fiscal reforms will lead to welfare and efficiency gains that can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076605
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An Investigation of the Gains from Commitment in Monetary Policy
Schaumburg, Ernst; Tambalotti, Andrea - EconWPA - 2003
measure of the (lack of) credibility of the monetary policy authority, we investigate the welfare effect of a marginal … for only 6 quarters is enough to bridge 75% of the welfare gap between discretion and commitment. This seems to justify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076809