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This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...
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We investigate the impact of increases in wheat flour prices on household food security using unique nationally …
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poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient …
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Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...
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Teams are becoming increasingly important in work settings. We develop a framework to study the strategic implications of a meritocratic notion of desert under which team members care about receiving what they feel they deserve. Team members find it painful to receive less than their perceived...
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models based on independent utilities; sharing of product market rents; equity concerns resulting from social comparisons … between employee groups; and differences in work organization as a source of union rents or quasi-rents. Only equity concerns …
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particular, we analyze how horizontal fairness concerns affect performance and efficiency in an environment characterized by … high efforts. The treatment difference instead seems to be driven by the fact that the norm of equity is violated far more … frequently in the equal wage treatment. After having suffered from violations of the equity principle, agents withdraw effort …
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, it seems that some countries can compensate better than others and thereby achieve higher equity in the educational …
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economic rationales for public intervention to control obesity. We take into account equity issues as well as efficiency …
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reforms on equity and efficiency for the case of Germany. We find that a flat rate tax with a low tax rate and a low basic …
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