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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture
Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999
A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...
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Abolishing GDP
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372528
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National and international income dispersion and aggregate expenditures
Fillat Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph F. - 2004
We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in average income) and national income dispersion (income...
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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries
McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017
properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …
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Well-being inequality and reference groups : an agenda for new research
Praag, Bernard M. S. van - 2010 - Version March 3, 2010
In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...
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Fuzzy firm name matching : merging Amadeus firm data to PATSTAT
Bremer, Leon - 2023
When merging firms across large databases in the absence of common identifiers, text algorithms can help. I propose a high-performance fuzzy firm name matching algorithm that uses existing computational methods and works even under hardware restrictions. The algorithm consists of four steps,...
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Robust ranking of journal quality : an application to economics
Chang, Chia-Lin; Maasoumi, Esfandiar; McAleer, Michael - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767002
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Ranking leading econometrics journals using citations data from ISI and RePEc
Zhang, Jialin; McAleer, Michael - 2013
The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact of 10 leading econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI and the highly accessible Research Papers in Economics...
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Quality weighted citations versus total citations in the sciences and social sciences
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2014
The paper analyses academic journal quality and research impact using quality weighted citations versus total citations, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A new Index of Citations Quality (ICQ) is presented, based on quality weighted citations....
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Ranking economics and econometrics ISI journals by quality weighted citations
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2014
The paper analyses academic journal quality and impact using quality weighted citations that are based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). A recently developed Index of Citations Quality (ICQ), based on quality weighted citations, is used to analyse...
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