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The Elite and the Marginalised : An Analysis of Public Spending on Mass Education in the Indian States
Pal, Sarmistha; Ghosh, Sugata - 2021
and how far the interests of the marginalized poor are undermined by the dominant elite consisting mainly of the landed … and the capitalists. We distinguish the dominant elite from the minority elite (i.e., elected women and low caste … education while presence of capitalist elite, as reflected in greater degree of industrialisation enhances it, even in poorer …
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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016
This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984869
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Politicians, Governed vs. Non-Governed Interest Groups and Rent Dissipation
Epstein, Gil S. - 2014
Government intervention often gives rise to contests and the government can influence their outcome by choosing their type. We consider a contest with two interest groups: one that is governed by a central planner and one that is not. Rent dissipation is compared under two well-known contest...
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Do Interest Groups Affect Immigration?
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria; Mishra, Prachi - 2021
While anecdotal evidence suggests that interest groups play a key role in shaping immigration, there is no systematic empirical evidence on this issue. To motivate our analysis, we develop a simple theoretical model where migration policy is the result of the interaction between organized groups...
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class : The Impact of Within-Group Inequality
Blanden, Jo - 2011
Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social class; intergenerational mobility for this outcome is found to be unchanged. Our aim here is to...
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Age, Life-Satisfaction, and Relative Income : Insights from the UK and Germany
Fitzroy, Felix R. - 2011
We first confirm previous results with the German Socio-Economic Panel by Layard, et al. (2010), and obtain strong negative effects of comparison income. However, when we split the sample by age, we find quite different results for reference income. The effects on life-satisfaction are positive...
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Tastes, Castes, and Culture : The Influence of Society on Preferences
Fehr, Ernst - 2011
Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120848
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Race, Social Class, and Bulimia Nervosa
Goeree, Michelle Sovinsky - 2011
In this paper we explore a serious eating disorder, bulimia nervosa (BN), which afflicts a surprising number of girls in the US. We challenge the long-held belief that BN primarily affects high income White teenagers, using a unique data set on adolescent females evaluated regarding their...
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The Labor/Land Ratio and India's Caste System
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
This paper proposes that India's caste system and involuntary labor were joint responses by a nonworking landowning class to a low labor/land ratio in which the rules of the caste system supported the institution of involuntary labor. The hypothesis is tested in two ways: longitudinally, with...
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