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Gerontocracy revisited : unilateral transfer to the young may benefit the middle-aged

Poutvaara, Panu - 2001

-aged owning land may gain by providing public education even when they cannot tax the young. This requires that labor is not …

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Do land markets anticipate regulatory change? : evidence from Canadian conservation policy

Bošković, Branko; Nøstbakken, Linda - 2016

changes to regulation. Using shifting land use regulation boundaries and oil lease prices from Canada, we estimate the effect … of anticipated regulatory change on the value of land. We find that anticipated rezoning decreases the price of … regulation is capitalized into land values. …

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Land trade and development : a market design approach

Bryan, Gharad; De Quidt, Jonathan; Wilkening, Tom; … - 2017

high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that … private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that market design has the potential to contribute to the development …, comparing the performance of several continuous-time land exchanges. Farmers are able to achieve high degrees of efficiency, and …

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Pricing the ecosystem and taxing ecosystem services : a general equilibrium approach

Eichner, Thomas (contributor); Pethig, Rüdiger (contributor) - 2007

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Informal labor exchange teams and participation in the labor market : evidence from rural Tanzania

Arciniegas, Christian; Dumas, Christelle; Fahn, Matthias - 2025

We investigate labor exchange teams in rural communities, which are prevalent in many developing countries. We show theoretically that these teams are beneficial to employers, who can outsource the monitoring of workers. Team members are incentivized to exert a high level of effort because any...

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Social norms and misinformation : experimental evidence on learning about menstrual health management in rural Bangladesh

Castro, Silvia; Czura, Kristina - 2021

Inadequate hygiene during menstruation can have severe consequences, such as adverse health effects, lower educational attainment and higher work absenteeism. Cultural taboos and social norms surrounding menstruation may contribute to misinformation about menstrual hygiene and may also interfere...

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Fiscal policies for job creation and innovation : the experiences of US states

Chirinko, Robert S.; Wilson, Daniel J. - 2022

This paper reviews selected fiscal policy initiatives undertaken by US states to encourage job creation and innovation. We begin with a discussion of some general considerations about the design of tax policies summarized in a tax policy design table. Four policies are reviewed: job creation tax...

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Divided government and polarization : regression-discontinuity evidence from US States

Repetto, Luca; Sosa Andrés, Maximiliano - 2022

This paper studies how divided government - arising when control of the government branches is split between parties - affects the polarization of the legislature and policy implementation. Using data on electoral and legislative outcomes for US states and a regression-discontinuity design, we...

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The political competition-economic performance puzzle : evidence from the OECD countries and the Italian regions

Padovano, Fabio (contributor); Ricciuti, Roberto (contributor) - 2008

Empirical tests of the theories on the relationship between political competition and economic performance generate a puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the larger set of policy instruments reduces the tax...

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Fundamental determinants of school efficiency and equity : german states as a microcosm for OECD countries

Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2007

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