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Quantifying optimal growth policy
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
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Investment tax credits and the response of firms
Lerche, Adrian - 2022
This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional indirect effects arising from agglomeration economies. Exploiting a change in tax credit rates by firm size in Germany, I find that manufacturing firms increase capital and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429414
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Productive benefits of health : evidence from low-income countries
Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2005
Various household survey indicators of adult nutrition and health status are analyzed as determinants of individual wages. However, survey indicators of health status may be heterogeneous, or a combination of health human capital formed by investment behavior and variation due to genotype,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002597744
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Intrahousehold distribution and child poverty : theory and evidence from Côte d’Ivoire
Bargain, Olivier; Donni, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2011
Poverty measures in developing countries often ignore the distribution of resources within families and the gains from joint consumption. In this paper, we extend the collective model of household consumption to recover mother's, father's and children's shares together with economies of scale,...
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Engel curves, spatial variation in prices and demand for commodities in Côte d'Ivoire
Gbakou, Monnet Benoit Patrick; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011
This paper aims to estimate the price and income elasticities of the demand for essential commodities in Cote d'Ivoire. Using data from the 2002 Cote d'Ivoire Living Standard Survey and a theoretical framework developed by Crawford et al. (2003), we analyse price effects on the demand for groups...
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Regionalism in West Africa: do polar countries reap the benefits? : A role for migration
Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
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Parental risk preferences, maternal bargaining power, and the educational progressions of children : lab-in-the-field evidence from rural Côte D'Ivoire
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022
We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational expenses - elicited via lab-in-the-field experiments in rural Côte d'Ivoire - on the educational progression of boys and girls. Data from 135 couples and their children show that...
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Intra-household bargaining in Ivory Coast : experimental evidence from rural areas
Dimova, Ralitza; Abou, Edouard Pokou; Basu, Arnab K.; … - 2022
This paper proposes a novel experimental measure of women's relative bargaining power, relates this measure to expenditures on various household public goods, and studies its determinants. A key question we address in the process is whether higher bargaining power for women translates into...
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Assessing dishonesty in cocoa value chains : lab-in-the-field evidence from middlemen in Côte D'Ivoire
Boutin, Delphine; Jouvin, Marine; Olié, Louis - 2024
This study investigates dishonest behavior among cocoa middlemen in Côte d'Ivoire, focusing on the role of observability and financial penalties in deterring such behavior. Using on a modified version of the "die-under-cup task", we examine the cheating behaviors of 151 cocoa middlemen over...
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On-the-job learning and earnings : comparative evidence from Morocco and Senegal
Nordman, Christophe J.; Wolff, François-Charles - 2012
colleagues. We estimate the rate of knowledge diffusion inside the firm using two matched worker-firm data sets from Morocco and … diffusion is around 7 percent in Morocco and Senegal, but part of the learning-by-watching returns stems from firm heterogeneity … Morocco. -- earnings functions ; informal training ; learning-by-watching ; learning-by-doing ; returns to tenure ; Morocco …
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