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Parenting style as an investment in human development
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Salamanca, Nicolás; Zhu, Anna - 2016
We propose a household production function approach to human development in which the role of parenting style in child rearing is explicitly considered. Specifically, we model parenting style as an investment in human development that depends not only on inputs of time and market goods, but also...
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Going beyond GDP with a parsimonious indicator : inequality-adjusted healthy lifetime income
Bloom, David E.; Fan, Victoria Y.; Kufenko, Vadim; … - 2020
Per capita GDP has limited use as a well-being indicator because it does not capture many dimensions that imply a "good life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can be calculated with manageable data requirements....
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Bias and careers: evidence from the aid effectiveness literature
Doucouliagos, Chris; Hinz, Thomas; Zigova, Katarina - 2020
We investigate whether estimates of the effect of aid on growth are influenced by authors' careers. We collect data on … on the reported magnitude of aid effectiveness, and on the degree of selectivity in which results are reported. On … with aid agencies. …
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Were COVID and the Great Recession well-being reducing?
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 1993-2022, Eurobarometer 1991-2022, the UK Covid Social Survey Panel, 2020-2022, the European Social Survey 2002-2020 and the IPSOS Happiness Survey 2018-2023 - we show...
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Migration, openness and the global preconditions of "smart development"
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
In this article, we present a first empirical reflection on 'smart development', its measurement, possible 'drivers' and 'bottlenecks'. We first provide cross-national data on how much ecological footprint is used in the nations of the world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009523002
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Peace, terrorism, or civil conflict? : understanding the decision of an opposition group
Jetter, Michael - 2016
When do opposition groups decide to mount a terrorism campaign and when do they enter an open civil conflict against … the ruling government? This paper models an opposition group's choice between peace, terrorism, and open conflict …. Terrorism emerges if executive constraints are intermediate and rents are sizeable. Open conflict is predicted to emerge under …
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Food aid and violent conflict : a review of literature
Koppenberg, Maximilian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Hirsch, Stefan - 2023
We decompose the relationship between food aid and conflict into the channels through which food aid can affect … empirical evidence on the effect of food aid on conflict shows that none of the previous studies proposes a compelling … estimation and ii) identifying the channels through which food aid influences conflict. We argue that future work should contain …
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Econometric mediation analyses : identifying the sources of treatment effects from experimentally estimated production technologies with unmeasured and mismeasured inputs
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2013
This paper presents an econometric mediation analysis. It considers identification of production functions and the sources of output effects (treatment effects) from experimental interventions when some inputs are mismeasured and others are entirely omitted.
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A social-psychological reconstruction of Amartya Sen's measures of inequality and social welfare
Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021
The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
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Happiness and the human development index : Australia is not a paradox
Leigh, Andrew (contributor); Wolfers, Justin (contributor) - 2006
In "Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia," Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with...
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