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Sierminska, Eva; Doorley, Karina - 2013

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that younger households' participation decisions in assets are more responsive...

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The determinants of China's international portfolio equity allocations

Agarwal, Isha; Gu, Grace Weishi; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2020

We analyze shifts in the structure of China's capital outflows over the past decade. The composition of gross outflows has shifted from accumulation of foreign exchange reserves by the central bank to nonofficial outflows. Unlocking the enormous pool of domestic savings could have a significant...

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Divestment and engagement : the effect of green investors on corporate carbon emissions

Kahn, Matthew E.; Matsusaka, John G.; Shu, Chong - 2023

This paper studies whether green investors can influence corporate greenhouse gas emissions through capital markets, either by divesting their stock and limiting polluters' access to capital, or holding polluters' stock and engaging with management. We focus on public pension funds, classifying...

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Repayment versus investment conditions and exclusivity in lending contracts

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Dasgupta, Indraneel; Morrissey, Oliver - 2009

Lenders condition future loans on some index of past performance. Typically, banks condition future loans on repayments of earlier obligations whilst international organizations (official lenders) condition future loans on the implementation of some policy action (‘investment’). We build an...

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The effects of credit status on college attainment and college completion

Gicheva, Dora; Ionescu, Felicia; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2012

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance college. Access to these credit lines and the interest rates charged on these loans can vary significantly across credit scores. In this paper, we analyze if credit status, as...

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The elite and the marginalised : an analysis of public spending on mass education in the Indian States

Pal, Sarmistha (contributor); Ghosh, Sugata (contributor) - 2008

-development spending ; India …

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Caste based discrimination : evidence and policy

Siddique, Zahra (contributor) - 2008

Caste-based quotas in hiring have existed in the public sector in India for decades. Recently there has been debate …

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Union membership effect on wage premiums : evidence from organized manufacturing industries in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor) - 2008

organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. -- Trade unions ; wage differentials ; manufacturing …

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Child work and schooling costs in rural Northern India

Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); … - 2006

children's propensities to work and to attend school in rural northern India in a bid to assess the extent of trade-off between … activities. Thus, unlike recent studies of child work in India's South Asian neighbors of Bangladesh and Pakistan, this paper … uncovers evidence of substantial trade-off between child work and school attendance. -- child labor ; schooling costs ; India …

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Sibling death clustering in India : state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2006

extent of state dependence in India, distinguishing this from family-level risk factors common to siblings. It offers a … ; multi-level model ; India …

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