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Intrahousehold Allocation of Resources : The Bolivian Family
Inchauste, Gabriela - 2001
Recognizing that intrahousehold inequalities exist, this study focuses on the distribution of resources toward children across household types. A bargaining framework is used to test whether it matters who has control over resources. Results show that control over resources matters, as well as...
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Does child marriage matter for growth?
Mitra, Pritha; Pondi Endengle, Eric M.; Pant, Malika; … - 2020
Global attention to ending child marriage and its socio-economic consequences is gaining momentum. Ending child … marriage is not only critical from a development perspective but it also has important economic implications. This paper is the … first to quantify the relationship between child marriage and economic growth. Applying a simultaneous equations model, the …
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How do climate shocks affect the impact of FDI, ODA and remittances on economic growth?
Drabo, Alassane - 2021
The three main financial inflows to developing countries have largely increased during the last two decades, despite the large debate in the literature regarding their effects on economic growth which is not yet clear-cut. An emerging literature investigates the dependence of their effects on...
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Structural Adjustment, Economic Performance, and Aid Dependency in Tanzania
Agrawal, Nisha - 1993
Tanzania’s adjustment program, which began in the mid-1980s, was accompanied by a sharp increase in the levels of foreign assistance. Previous studies, using published data, have not reflected much improvement in economic performance during the reform period. This paper attempts to shed new...
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Trends in gender equality and women's advancement
Stotsky, Janet G.; Shibuya, Sakina; Kolovich, Lisa; … - 2016
This paper examines trends in indicators of gender equality and women's development, using evidence derived from individual indicators and gender equality indices. We extend both the United Nations Development Program's Gender Development Index and Gender Inequality Index to examine time trends....
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Tackling legal impediments to women's economic empowerment
Christopherson, Katharine; Yiadom, Audrey; Johnson, … - 2022
It is well established that a wide range of legal impediments in countries' domestic laws have prevented women from achieving full economic empowerment, which in turn has negative macroeconomic implications. In many countries, laws often reflect and perpetuate gender norms that limit women's...
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Gender Budgeting
Stotsky, Janet Gale - 2006
Women are disadvantaged relative to men, according to key economic, social, and political measures of equality, but in many areas, such as education, differences are narrowing. The concept of externalities underlies the arguments for including gender considerations in budget programs and...
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Strategic Interactions Between An Independent Central Bank and a Myopic Government with Government Debt
Stehn, Sven Jari - 2008
We analyse optimal discretionary games between a benevolent central bank and a myopic government in a New Keynesian model. First, when lump-sum taxes are available and public debt is absent, we show that a Nash game results in too much government spending and excessively high interest rates,...
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What is Different About Family Businesses?
Chami, Ralph - 2001
Family businesses make up forty percent of the Fortune 500 companies in the US, generate about two-thirds of the German GDP, employ about one-half of the labor force in Britain, and account for the majority of the private economies in developing countries. This paper develops a theory of family...
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Statistical Inference As a Bargaining Game
Ley, Eduardo - 2002
This paper extends the analogy, previously established by Learner (1978a), between a Bayesian inference problem and an economics allocation problem to show that posterior modes can be interpreted as optimal outcomes of a bargaining game. This bargaining game, over a parameter value, is played...
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