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The Sensitivity of Labor Demand Functions to Choice of Dependent Variable

Borjas, George J. - 1985

This paper investigates whether the parameters of labor demand functions are sensitive to alternative methods of estimation. The assumption that the production technology is of the Generalized Leontief type implies that the demand system can be estimated by analyzing cross-section differences in...

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Why Doesn't Capitalism Flow to Poor Countries?

Tella, Rafael Di - 2007

corruption, which is more widespread in poor countries, reduces more the electoral appeal of capitalism than that of socialism …

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State Versus Private Ownership

Shleifer, Andrei - 1998

costs must be strong. In essence, this is the case for capitalism over socialism, explaining the dynamic vitality' of free … enterprise. The great economists of the 1930s and 1940s failed to see the dangers of socialism in part because they focused on … the role of prices under socialism and capitalism and ignored the enormous importance of ownership as the source of …

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Pervasive Shortages Under Socialism

Shleifer, Andrei - 1991

We present a new theory of pervasive shortages under socialism, based on the assumption that the planners are self … suggests that market socialism is bound to fail even without computational complexities facing the planners …

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Left, Right, Left : Income, Learning and Political Dynamics

Morrow, John - 2013

The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...

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Financial Crisis in a Socialist Setting : Impact on Political Behavior, Social Trust, and Economic Values

Abramitzky, Ran; Ben-Porath, Netanel; Lavy, Victor; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Research on the political and social impacts of financial crises has focused chiefly on free market economies, hindering our understanding of their effects in other settings. We exploit an episode of a financial crisis that hit the Israeli kibbutzim to study its impact in a socialist context....

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Social experimentation : A National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Hausman, Jerry A. (ed.); Wise, David A. (contributor) - 1985

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Interactions-Based Models

Brock, William - 2000

This paper describes a range of methods which have been proposed to study interactions in economic and social contexts. By interactions, we refer to interdependences between individual decisions which are not mediated by markets. These types of models have been employed to understand phenomena...

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Peer Effects with Random Assignment : Results for Dartmouth Roommates

Sacerdote, Bruce - 2000

This paper uses a unique data set to measure peer effects among college age roommates. Freshman year roommates and dormmates are randomly assigned at Dartmouth College. I find that in this group, peer effects are very important in determining levels of academic effort and in decisions to join...

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Assigning Deviant Youths to Minimize Total Harm

Cook, Philip J. - 2005

A common practice in the fields of education, mental health, and juvenile justice is to segregate problem youths in groups with deviant peers. Assignments of this sort, which concentrate deviant youths, may facilitate deviant peer influence and lead to perverse outcomes. This possibility adds to...

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