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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

We set up a unified growth model capturing the transition of a primitive and egalitarian hunter-gatherer society, into an advanced and despotic early civilization, and finally into a more egalitarian industrial society. Agents are either landowners or landless; both earn income from human...

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

production. The ``organization'' of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …

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The Roads To and From Serfdom

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

production. The "organization" of society is determined endogenously, and depends on agricultural technology and population … agents own their labor. In this process, the role of population growth switches from being a force driving the transition … the 19th century US which had sparser population had a larger percentage slaves in the population. …

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Power Law Signature in Indonesian Population

Mulianta, Ivan; Situngkir, Hokky; Surya, Yohanes - EconWPA - 2004

The paper analyzes the spreading of population in Indonesia. The spreading of population in Indonesia is clustered in … population does not have fat tail properties, while in the other hand; there exists power-law signature in kotamadya. We analyzed …

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Maintaining Momentum to 2015? An impact evaluation of interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in Bangladesh

White, Howard; Masset, Edoardo; Blondal, Nina; … - EconWPA - 2005

Bangladesh has experienced rapid fertility decline and reductions in under-five mortality over the last three decades. This impact study unravels the various factors behind these changes. Economic growth has been important, but so have major public sector interventions, notably reproductive...

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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline …

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Sex, Equality, and Growth (in that order)

Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002

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CLAVES DE LA INFLACION DE 2005

Marongiu, Federico - EconWPA - 2005

El tema de la inflación ha sido uno de los más debatidos en los últimos meses. Los incrementos de precios registrados en el primer trimestre de 2005 han avivado la discusión. Este trabajo muestra que el problema está lejos de estar fuera de control y que determinadas medidas de política...

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Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theorectical Underpinnings and Challenges

Arestis, Philip; Sawyer, Malcolm - EconWPA - 2003

Macroeconomic Policies of the Economic and Monetary Union: Theoretical Underpinnings and Challenges Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer, The Levy Economics Institute and Leeds University Abstract This paper presents two issues: first, an effort to decipher the type of economic analysis and...

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Measuring China's Fiscal Policy Stance

Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005

This paper argues that the tradtitional way of gauging a country's fiscal policy stance by looking at government budget deficit or cyclically adjusted budget deficits is misleading in the case of China, since a lot of what usually would be considered fiscal policy is conducted via investment by...

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