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Fiscal policy instruments and the political economy of designing programs to reach the poorest

Ahmad, Ehtisham - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

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The power of the interviewer: a qualitative perspective on African survey data collection

Randall, Sara; Coast, Ernestina; Compaore, Natacha; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

Tanzania, Uganda, Senegal and Burkina Faso. RESULTS Despite comprehensive training manuals and definitions, interviewers …

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Fiscal Adjustment in Southern Europe: the Limits of EMU Conditionality.

Blavoukos, Spyros; Pagoulatos, George - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

The EMU fiscal adjustment paths of the four Southern Europe members (Italy, Spain, Greece, and Portugal – SE-4) vary along two dimensions: a) cross-temporal (pre- and post-EMU accession) and b) cross-country. We account for the cross-temporal variation by distinguishing between the ‘hard’...

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Inflation, inequality and social conflict

Crowe, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents a political economy model of inflation as a result of social conflict. Agents are heterogeneous in terms of income. Agents’ income levels determine their ability to hedge against the effects of inflation. The interaction of heterogeneous cash holdings and preferences over...

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On the international dimension of fiscal policy

Benigno, Gianluca; De Paoli, Bianca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This paper analyses the international dimension of fiscal policy using a small open economy framework in which the government finances its spending by levying distortionary taxation and issuing non-state-contingent debt. The main finding of the paper is that, once the open economy aspect of the...

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Government spending shocks, wealth effects and distortionary taxes

Cloyne, James - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The size and sign of the government spending multiplier crucially depends on how the spending is financed and how consumers respond to implied future tax increases. I investigate this issue in an estimated New Keynesian DSGE model with distortionary labor and capital taxes and, importantly, with...

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Institutional constraints on profligate politicians: the conditional effect of partisan fragmentation on budget deficits

Wehner, Joachim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

The literature on the common pool resource problem in budgeting has thus far not explored the likely interaction between size fragmentation (the number of decision makers) and procedural fragmentation (the structure of the process in which they interact).The argument put forward in this article...

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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ROLE OF FISCAL POLICY IN STABILISATION AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

BUITER, W.H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1988

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Welfare reforms and child well-being in the US and UK

Waldfogel, Jane - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

-income families, looking specifically at the effects on poverty, family expenditures, and child health and development. The paper … finds some commonalities but also some notable differences. Common to both countries is a sizable reduction in child poverty …, although the reduction in child poverty in the US has been less, and some families appear to have been left behind. Expenditure …

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Child farm labour: theory and evidence

Bhalotra, Sonia; Heady, Chris - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in...

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