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The euro area is experiencing a severe and highly complex crisis. It comprises three problem areas, the difficulties of some highly indebted European sovereigns to ascertain funding at palatable cost, the disconcerting fragility of the European banking system and disappointing growth prospects...
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This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model of the world economy calibrated to aggregate and firm-level data. Our framework features cross-country labor productivity difference, international trade, remittances, and a...
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Tanzania. Using cross-reports on asset holdings, we construct measures of misperception of income among all pairs of households … over-evaluation or under-evaluation of income in our data, although there is a slight over-evaluation on the part of …
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This paper reviews a number of recent contributions that demonstrate that a blend of welfare economics and statistical analysis is useful in the evaluation of the citations received by scientific papers in the periodical literature. The paper begins by clarifying the role of citation analysis in...
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and income inequality among pensioners in Hungary before the introduction of pension reforms. We find that the old system …
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This paper uses household surveys from 13 developing countries to describe consumption choices, health and education investments, employment patterns and other features of the of the economic lives of the “middle classes” defined as those whose daily consumption per capita is between $2 and...
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concluded that divorce has little effect on women’s average household income. Employing an Abadie (2003) technique that allows … us to look at the impact of marital break-up throughout the income distribution, however, we find that divorce greatly … increases the probability that a woman lives in a household with income in the bottom quartile. While women partially offset the …
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Albarrán et al. (2009a ) introduced a novel methodology for the evaluation of citation distributions consisting of a pair of high- and a low-impact measures defined over the set of articles with citations below or above a critical citation level CCL. Albarrán et al. (2009b ) presented the...
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This paper contains the first empirical applications of a novel methodology for comparing the citation distributions of research units working in the same homogeneous field. The paper considers a situation in which the world citation distribution in 22 scientific fields is partitioned into three...
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suggest that heights are influenced positively by family income per capita and negatively by the number of children or the … influence on both nutrition and disease. Applying our results to long-term trends, we find that rising household income and …
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