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Eliciting motives for trust and reciprocity by attitudinal and behavioural measures
Farina, Francesco (contributor);  … - 2008
Value Surveys may reveal well-behaved societies by the statistical treatment of the agents' declarations of compliance with social values. Similarly, the results of experiments conducted on games with conflict of interest trace back to two important primitives of social capital - trust and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003735424
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581624
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A computationally practical simulation estimation algorithm for dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables
Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2009
This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables. The new approach can easily deal with the commonly encountered and widely discussed "initial conditions problem," as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824296
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The effect of economic crises on nutritional status : evidence from Russia
Stillman, Steven (contributor); Thomas, Duncan (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001987029
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Inequality and volatility moderation in Russia : evidence from micro-level panel data on consumption and income
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Sabirianova Peter, Klara; … - 2009
We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal … ; income ; consumption ; transition ; Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003863185
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The important role of equivalence scales : household size, composition, and poverty dynamics in Russia
Abanokova, Kseniya; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lokshin, Michael - 2020
countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … equivalence scales constructed from subjective wealth and more than 20 waves of household panel survey data from the Russia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012184084
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The reallocation of workers and jobs in Russian industry : new evidence on measures and determinants
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Gross job and worker flows in Russian industry are studied using panel data from a recent survey of 530 firms selected through national probability sampling. The data permit an examination of several important measurement issues - including the timing and definition of employment, the roles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412846
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Understanding interhousehold transfers in a transition economy : evidence from Russia
Kuhn, Randall; Stillman, Steven - 2002
-age populations in the world). Informal networks in Russia are likely to take on distinctive characteristics as the country's economic … found in much wealthier countries. Although it is often assumed that the elderly in Russia are a highly vulnerable economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413334
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual manufacturing census data from 1985 to 2000, we find that Soviet … Russia displayed job flow behavior quite different from market economies, with very low rates of job reallocation that bore … reforming Russia than in "gradualist" Ukraine, as did the estimated effects of privatization and competitive pressures from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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Transition from plan to market, height and well-being
Adserà, Alícia; Dalla Pozza, Francesca; Guriev, Sergej; … - 2019
Using newly available data, we re-evaluate the impact of transition from plan to market in former communist countries on objective and subjective well-being. We find clear evidence of the high social cost of early transition reforms: cohorts born around the start of transition are shorter than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121301