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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income

Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research

Praag, Bernard van - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. …

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Identifying All Distinct Sample P-P Plots, with an Application to the Exact Finite Sample Distribution of the L1-FCvM Test Statistic

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

P-p plots contain all the information that is needed for scale-invariant comparisons. Indeed, Empirical Distribution …-p plots for two balanced sample of size <I>n</I> absent ties. Distributions of EDF test statistics are embedded in this set …

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Confidence Management: On Interpersonal Comparisons in Teams

Crutzen, Benoît S.Y.; Swank, Otto H.; Visser, Bauke - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Organization differ in the degree to which they differentiate employees by ability. We analyse how the effect of differentiation on employee morale may explain this variation. By comparing employees using ordinary talk, a manager boosts the self-image of some, but hurts that of others. Whether...

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Polarization, Information Collection and Electoral Control

Martinez, Silvia Dominguez; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

We identify the conditions under which voters can induce political parties to collect information and to select policies which are optimal from the representative voter’s point of view. We show that when parties are office motivated the voting rule should encourage parties to collect...

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How Polarization and Political Instability affect Learning through Experimentation

Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

. In this paper we examine how in a two-party system polarization and political instability affect learning through …, polarization between political parties does not always decrease active learning. In the case with endogenous elections we find that …

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Long Run Returns to Education: Does Schooling Lead to an Extended Old Age?

Kippersluis, Hans van; O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on health is not yet firmly established. We exploit Dutch compulsory schooling laws in a Regression Discontinuity Design applied to linked data from health surveys, tax files and...

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Cut-point Shift and Index Shift in Self-reported Health

Lindeboom, Maarten; Doorslaer, Eddy van - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

a population. This reporting heterogeneity may invalidate group comparisons and measures of health inequality. This …

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Religion and Income

Bettendorf, L.; Dijkgraaf, E. - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

This paper tests whether the behaviour of households in different countries is homogeneous with respect to the influence of religion on income. The violation of the homogeneity assumption would have two consequences. First, results based on country studies might not be applicable to other...

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Abolishing GDP

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Institute - 2007

Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...

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