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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?
Arunachalam, Raj - 2008
This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...
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Missing Unmarried Women
Anderson, Siwan - 2015
women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is … more extreme for women in these regions compared to developed countries. We provide systematic estimates of the excess … female mortality faced by older unmarried women in developing regions. We place these estimates in the context of the missing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457157
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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia
Krishna, Pravin - 2010
This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...
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Daily Cross-Border Equity Flows : Pushed or Pulled?
Griffin, John M. - 2002
In a model that is consistent with the existence of a home bias and with foreign investors that are less informed than domestic investors, we show that unexpectedly high worldwide returns lead to net equity inflows into small countries. In addition, a small country experiences net equity inflows...
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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change - the reallocation of labor from low- to...
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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia
Vogl, Tom - 2012
Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...
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On the Design of Hierarchies : Coordination Versus Specialization
Hart, Oliver - 1999
We develop a model of hierarchies based on the allocation of authority. A firm's owners have ultimate authority over a firm's decisions, but they have limited time or capacity to exercise this authority. Hence owners must delegate authority to subordinates. However, these subordinates also have...
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Is the American Soft Power a Casualty of the Trade War?
Fan, Haichao; Hu, Yichuan; Tang, Lixin; Wei, Shang-Jin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The US trade war against China in 2018-2019 can either enhance or diminish the US soft power in China, depending on … the US soft power--is affected by the trade war, utilizing variations across Chinese cities in the exposure to the Trump …
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A Theory of Power Structure and Institutional Compatibility : China vs. Europe Revisited
Jia, Ruixue; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
differences in the power structure of society: (1) the Ruler enjoyed weaker absolute power in Europe; (2) the People were more on … par with the Elites in China in terms of power and rights. Based on these narratives, we build a game-theoretical model … and analyze how the power structure can shape the stability of an autocratic rule. If we read greater absolute power of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482621
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Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?
Cohen, Lauren - 2010
This paper employs a new empirical approach for identifying the impact of government spending on the private sector. Our key innovation is to use changes in congressional committee chairmanship as a source of exogenous variation in state-level federal expenditures. In doing so, we show that...
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