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Starting with a comparative assessment of different welfare regimes and political economies from the perspective of gender awareness and "pro-women" policies, this paper identifies the determinants of cross-national variation in women's chances of being in a high-status occupation in twelve West...
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-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given … corruption on pollution. The indirect effect via income is positive or negative depending on the income level. If negative, the … corruption. Because this relationship is particularly strong at low income levels, developing countries can considerably improve …
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This study tests the prediction that perceived corruption reduces ethical behavior. Integrating a standard "cheating … corruption in state affairs are more likely to cheat and, thus, to fortify the negative consequences of corruption. Interestingly …
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I analyze the impact of food price inflation on parental decisions to send their children to school. Moreover, I use the fact that food crop farmers and cotton farmers were exposed differently to that shock to estimate the income elasticity of school enrolment. The results suggest that the...
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fixed effects model for the estimation of the impact of mandatory registration on mobile penetration growth, which is based …
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This paper presents a novel theory of corruption in public procurement. It considers an agency setting of contract … politician chooses a relatively lax auditing in order to create an incentive for cost-padding, and engages in corruption with the …
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perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to cheat. Interestingly, there is a small group of non-conformers. The …, this does not diminish the predictive role of corruption. …
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The positive association between moderate alcohol consumption and wages is well documented in the economic literature. Positive health effects as well as networking mechanisms serve as explanations for the "alcohol-income puzzle." Using individual-based microdata from the GSOEP for 2006, we...
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forecasts: a moving average transformation of the underlying forecasts and estimation with constant forecast-horizon- effects …
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) estimation methods. To obtain the result, the short run homogeneity restriction between money and prices is relaxed. In addition …
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