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The Dynamics of Returns to Education in Kenyan and Tanzanian Manufacturing

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis; Wambugu, Anthony; … - EconWPA - 2004

this paper we use data from Kenya and Tanzania to estimate returns to education for manufacturing workers and examine how … in Kenya.We test for the importance of ability bias and find convexity robust to endogeneity. Treating education as an …

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Monitoring Banking Sector Fragility

Kibritcioglu, Aykut - EconWPA - 2002

In the financial crisis literature, it is usually argued that, contrary to the case of currency crises, building a time series index to identify banking crisis episodes is highly difficult, particularly because of the lack of reliable data on banking sector variables (non-performing loans,...

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Working-age Adult Mortality and Primary Sschool Attendance in Rural Kenya

Yamano, Takashi; Jayne, Thomas S. - EconWPA - 2005

rural Kenya using a panel of 1,266 households surveyed in 1997, 2000, and 2002. We find a strong correlation between working … adult death. The evidence indicates that rising adult mortality in rural Kenya is adversely affecting primary school …

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Sustained Macroeconomic Reforms, Tepid Growth: A Governance Puzzle in Bolivia?

Kaufmann, Daniel; Mastruzzi, Massimo; Zavaleta, Diego - EconWPA - 2003

We are increasingly cognizant of the limits to large cross-country empirical studies in trying to understand in-depth a particular country reality, in ways useful for advice. At the same time, merely relying on a single country account at a particular point in time ignores the historical and...

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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY

NWAOBI, GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

ILLUSTRATE THE INTERRELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NATURAL RESOURCES, CORRUPTION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA; AS WELL AS PROPOSING ANTI-CORRUPTION …

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Why doesn't Capitalism flow to Poor Countries?

Tella, Rafael Di; MacCulloch, Robert - EconWPA - 2004

those in OECD countries. A possible explanation is that corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces the … this explanation: people who perceive corruption to be high in the country are also more likely to lean left ideologically … and to declare to support a more intrusive government in economic matters. Finally, we show that the corruption …

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“One Man, One Dollar”? Examining the equalization argument in support of campaign contribution limits

Vanberg, Christoph - EconWPA - 2005

grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the second is that they democratize the financing of campaigns by …

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PREFERENCES,DEVELOPMENT AND THE CORRUPTION TRAP

Correani, Luca - EconWPA - 2004

traditional anticorruption measures such as the increase in corruption costs or the organization of public education campaigns … would not permanently reduce corruption levels if poverty remains diffused. Using an overlapping generation model based on a … mechanism of cultural transmission, we study the evolution both of social attidudes towards bureaucratic corruption and the …

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How do Institutions Affect Corruption and the Shadow Economy?

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2005

corruption. It shows that an improvement in institutional quality reduces the shadow economy and affects the corruption market …. The exact relationship between corruption and institutional quality is, however, ambiguous and depends on the relative … effectiveness of the institutional quality in the shadow and corruption markets. The predictions of the model are empirically tested …

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CORRUPTION AROUND THE WORLD: EVIDENCE FROM A STRUCTURAL MODEL

Dreher, Axel; Kotsogiannis, Christos; McCorriston, Steve - EconWPA - 2004

The causes and consequences of corruption have attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy … makers. Central in the discussion on the impact of corruption are perception-based indices. While informative, these indices … are ordinal in nature and hence provide no indication of how much economic loss is attributed to corruption. Arguably …

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