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Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009

The paper presents a statistical generalisation, to working families in the whole of Britain, of Rowntree's finding that absolute poverty declined dramatically in York between 1899 and 1936. We use poverty lines devised by contemporary social investigators and two relatively newly-discovered...

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Real wages, working time, and the great depression : what does micro evidence tell us?

Hart, Robert A.; Roberts, J. Elizabeth - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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General human capital and employment adjustment in the great depression: apprentices and journeymen in UK engineering

Hart, Robert A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Payment for ecosystem services from forests

Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

the design of local and international policy instruments to prevent further deforestation and encourage forest growth …. This paper reviews the theory and evidence surrounding forest-related Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) schemes intended …

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Ecosystems and human health : the local benefits of forest cover in Indonesia

Garg, Teevrat - 2019

This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is … effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial incidence. Falsification tests reveal that the effect is specific … to malaria, with forest cover having no discernible effect on other diseases with a disease ecology different from that …

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Long-run trends in the distribution of income and wealth

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2014

This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...

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On the relevance and composition of gifts within the firm : evidence from field experiments

Bellemare, Charles; Shearer, Bruce S. - 2009

We investigate the economic relevance and the composition of gifts within a firm where output is contractible. We develop a structural econometric model that identifies workers' optimal reaction to monetary gifts received from their employer. We estimate the model using data from two separate...

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Gift exchange within a firm : evidence from a field experiment

Bellemare, Charles (contributor); … - 2007

We present results from a field experiment testing the gift-exchange hypothesis inside a tree-planting firm paying its workforce incentive contracts. Firm managers told a crew of tree planters they would receive a pay raise for one day as a result of a surplus not attributable to past planting...

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The use of violence in illegal markets : evidence from mahogany trade in the Brazilian Amazon

Chimeli, Ariaster B.; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2011

Agents operating in illegal markets cannot resort to the justice system to guarantee property rights, to enforce contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous agreements and to fight for market share. This...

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The roots of inequality: estimating inequality of opportunity from regression trees and forests

Brunori, Paolo; Hufe, Paul; Mahler, Daniel Gerszon - 2021

In this paper we propose the use of machine learning methods to estimate inequality of opportunity. We illustrate how our proposed methods - conditional inference regression trees and forests - represent a substantial improvement over existing estimation approaches. First, they reduce the risk...

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