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The welfare effects of globalization with labor market regulation
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2015
I examine how globalization affects wages and welfare in a general equilibrium model of international trade with partly … oligopolistic markets. Globalization is modeled as reducing trade costs or opening up shielded sectors to trade. There is a national … contributions to the latter's decisions. Both a shift from national to international regulation and a decrease in trade costs …
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Emigration from the UK, 1870 - 1913 and 1950 - 1998
Hatton, Timothy J. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003920255
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414017
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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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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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Informational shocks and street-food safety: a field study in urban India
Daniele, Gianmarco; Mookerjee, Sulagna; Tommasi, Denni - 2020
The street food market is a major source of food in developing countries, but is often characterized by unsafe food conditions. We investigate whether improvements in food safety can be achieved by providing information to vendors in the form of a training. Among randomly assigned groups of...
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Can crop purchase programs reduce poverty and improve welfare in rural communities? : evidence from the food reserve agency in Zambia
Fung, Winnie; Liverpool-Tasie, Lenis Saweda; Mason, Nicole - 2015
The last decade has seen a resurgence of parastatal crop marketing institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, many of which cite improving food security and incomes as key goals. However, there is limited empirical evidence on the welfare effects of these programs. This article considers one such...
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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014
The productivity of non-farm enterprises in rural Africa may be associated with the productivity of other spatially proximate farm and non-farm enterprises. To test for the presence and significance of such spatial autocorrelation we use data from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379209