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Autor, David H.; Figlio, David N.; Karbownik, Krzysztopf; … - 2016

Using birth certificates matched to schooling records for Florida children born 1992 - 2002, we assess whether family disadvantage disproportionately impedes the pre-market development of boys. We find that, relative to their sisters, boys born to disadvantaged families have higher rates of...

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Food for fuel : the effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012

a sharp increase in world poverty. -- clean energy ; food prices ; household welfare ; renewable fuel standards … ; poverty …

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The elusive quest for the holy grail of an impact of EU funds on regional growth

Fidrmuc, Jan; Hulényi, Martin; Zajkowska, Olga - 2019

We analyze the impact of EU structural and cohesion funds on economic growth of European regions, using 2SLS to tackle … economic growth in the EU. The inter-regional spillovers in the effect of Cohesion Policy on regional growth are found to be … redistribution: institutional reform can also help boost growth performance. …

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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States

De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016

We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we...

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Is social security part of the social safety net?

Brown, Jeffrey R.; Coronado, Julia Lynn; Fullerton, Don - 2009

Security program that reduces overall inequality by redistributing from high income individuals to middle income individuals … inequality. Second, we find that this result is driven largely by the lack of redistribution across the middle and upper part of …

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The importance of geographic access for the impact of microfinance

Alimukhamedova, Nargiza; Filer, Randall Keith; Hanousek, Jan - 2015

The geographic distance between a household and financial institutions may constitute a significant obstacle to achieving the benefits of modern financial institutions. We measure the impact of improved distance-related access to microcredits in Uzbekistan. Residents living closer to...

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Human capital quality and aggregate income differences : development accounting for US states

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Ruhose, Jens; Woessmann, Ludger - 2015

attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses. …

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Climate change and economic activity : evidence from U.S. states

Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; Pesaran, M. Hashem; … - 2022

We investigate the long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change across 48 U.S. states over the period 1963.2016 using a novel econometric strategy which links deviations of temperature and precipitation (weather) from their long-term moving-average historical norms (climate) to various...

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Resource-richness and economic growth in contemporary U.S.

Jaimes, Richard; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2017

Policy Act of 2005. We also document the resource boom indirect effects on other growth-enhancing activities, particularly …

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The economic consequences of rising US government debt: privileges at risk

Bohn, Henning - 2010

growth rate of the economy. The paper examines the ramifications of debt financing at low interest rates. Given the short …

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