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The economics of human development and social mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252655
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Agency and communication in IMF conditional lending : theory and empirical evidence
Marchesi, Silvia; Sabani, Laura; Dreher, Axel - 2009
the countries' authorities, openness, and transparency, consistently with the theory. -- IMF conditionality ; delegation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817754
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Geopolitics, aid and growth
Dreher, Axel; Eichenauer, Vera; Gehring, Kai - 2014
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country has served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010425577
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Skill policies for Scotland
Heckman, James J. (contributor);  … - 2004
This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002540578
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009
Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003866216
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The costs of favoritism : is politically-driven aid less effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942325
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The impact of aid on growth revisited : do donor motives matter?
Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009
The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically. -- Aid ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832281
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On the relation between income inequality and happiness : do fairness perceptions matter?
Bjørnskov, Christian (contributor);  … - 2010
the World Values Survey data and a broad set of fairness measures, we find strong support for the negative (positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919804
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The spread of anti-trafficking policies : evidence from a new index
Cho, Seo-young; Dreher, Axel; Neumayer, Eric - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009232913
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Corruption and the shadow economy : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel (contributor); Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a cross-section of 120 countries and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003332206