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. When the externalities on education are very high relatively to the positive externalities on health, the indirect subsidy … policies subsidizing education. This legitimacy lies in the fact that education is a source of positive externalities. In a … education also requires to tax births. Indeed, education subsidies decrease the net cost of children such that parents can …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …
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This article aims at investigating the interplay between environmental quality, health and development. We consider an …
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between La Réunion and France is persistent in the three dimensions of the HDI: health, education and even more in the …
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as well. Education and health care have become less accessible due to increased costs linked to the decentralization of … paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health … causality mechanisms between these three components (school absenteeism, health status and child labor) can occur either way, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784100
This paper examines the influence of political ideology on economic growth in the French democracy since 1871. It does so by addressing three main issues : the property and the reliability of a political ideology index in the long-run, the robustness of the relationship between ideology and...
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El turismo está experimentando fuertes transformaciones en las últimas décadas. Las posibilidades turísticas se están ampliando progresivamente y, junto a los destinos tradicionales, plenamente consolidados, se abren paso nuevas opciones de disfrute vacacional en las áreas rurales y...
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This paper combines ISSP survey data and experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game to determine the effect of status or relative income on work effort. We find a strong effect of others' incomes on individual effort decisions in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...
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We examine through an experimental design how rational and non-rational considerations affect the decision to vote or to abstain in First Past the Post and PR elections. We show that in both types of elections, but particularly so under PR, a majority of subjects do not make the "right"...
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