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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth
Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...
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Does Willful Ignorance Deflect Punishment? - An Experimental Study
Bartling, Björn; Engl, Florian; Weber, Roberto A. - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies whether people can avoid punishment by remaining willfully ignorant about possible negative consequences of their actions for others. We employ a laboratory experiment, using modified dictator games in which a dictator can remain willfully ignorant about the payoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674729
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Measuring Health Inequality with Categorical Data: Some Regional Patterns
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank - CESifo - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
Millner, Antony - CESifo - 2013
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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Regional Inequality and Internal Conflict
Lessmann, Christian - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies the influence of interregional inequality within countries on internal con-flicts. Regional inequalities are measured by the population-weighted coefficient of variation of regional GDP per capita. As the main innovation, I use a panel data set of country-level re- gional...
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Probability Adjusted Rank-Discounted Utilitarianism
Asheim, Geir B.; Zuber, Stéphane - CESifo - 2014
We propose and axiomatize probability adjusted rank-discounted critical-level generalized utilitarianism (PARDCLU). We thus generalize rank-discounted utilitarianism (RDU) (proposed by Zuber and Asheim, 2012) to variable population and risky situations and thereby take important steps towards...
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Food for Fuel: The Effect of the U.S. Biofuel Mandate on Poverty in India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; … - CESifo - 2012
domestic prices. Under perfect pass-through, the mandate leads to a reduction in rural poverty by about 39 million people, and … poverty increase by a total of 8 million people. Our study suggests that the US biofuel mandate may lead to modest increase in …
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Direct Distribution of Rents and the Resource Curse in Iran: A Micro-econometric Analysis
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - CESifo - 2014
tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative …
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Fighting Lone Mothers' Poverty through in-Work Benefits - Methodological Issues and Policy Suggestions
Pronzato, Chiara - CESifo - 2013
(2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … result that policy makers could obtain in terms of poverty reduction? In this paper, I estimate a discrete choice model of … have minimized poverty among lone mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877897
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Roles of Social Conformity in Deviance in Poverty: A Study on Working Poverty and Educational Investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N.; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - CESifo - 2013
In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty … despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …
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