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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System

Ederington, Josh - 2017

With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …

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The WTO Doha Round, Cotton Sector Dynamics and Poverty Trends in Zambia

Balat, Jorge F.; Porto, Guido G. - 2014

The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit agricultural farmers. In Zambia, these are rural, often...

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On trade policy preference and offshoring ties

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; … - 2022

This paper unpacks the role of the domestic content of imports as a novel source of policy interdependence along the global supply chain. We show how a rise in local contents embodied in imports can skew national trade policy preferences, and pull upstream and downstream countries in asymmetric...

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Economic aspects of human cloning and reprogenetics

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2002

This paper analyses the economic issues associated with human cloning and new reproductive technologies. We analyze the incentives for human cloning and its implications for the long run distribution of skills and income. We analyse models of human cloning for different motives, focusing on...

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Assortative mating on education : a genetic assessment

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Oreffice, Sonia; … - 2019

We investigate assortative mating on education using a sample of couples from the Health and Retirement Study. We estimate a reduced-form linear matching function, which links wife's education to husband's education and both wife's and husband's unobservable characteristics. Using OLS we find...

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Nature, nurture and egalitarian policy : what can we learn from molecular genetics?

Lundborg, Petter; Stenberg, Anders - 2009

This brief paper draws attention to molecular genetic research which may provide a new dimension to our understanding of how socioeconomic outcomes are generated. In particular, we provide an overview of the recently emerging evidence of gene-environment interaction effects. This literature...

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Are attitudes towards economic risk heritable? : analyses using the Australian twin study of gambling

Le, Anh Tram; Miller, Paul W.; Slutske, Wendy S.; … - 2010

This study employs multiple regression models based on DeFries and Fulker (1985), and a large sample of twins, to assess heritability in attitudes towards economic risk, and the extent to which this heritability differs between males and females. Consistent with Cesarini, Dawes, Johannesson,...

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Investigating the genetic architecture of non-cognitive skills using GWAS-by-subtraction

Demange, Perline A.; Malanchini, Margherita; Mallard, … - 2020

Educational attainment (EA) is influenced by characteristics other than cognitive ability, but little is known about the genetic architecture of these "non-cognitive" contributions to EA. Here, we use Genomic Structural Equation Modelling and prior genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of EA...

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Financial crises and liberalization : progress or reversals?

Saka, Orkun; Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei; … - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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Intergenerational ties and case fatality rates : a cross-country analysis

Bayer, Christian; Kuhn, Moritz - 2020

COVID-19 is spreading and has reached the state of a worldwide pandemic and health systems are or will be tested in how they can deal with it. So far, during this early phase of the pandemic, outcomes in terms of case-fatality rates (CFR) differ widely across countries. We explore how...

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