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Nano, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo; Viarengo, Martina - 2021

We examine the role of financial aid in shaping the formation of human capital in economics. Specifically, we study the …

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The New Economics of Religion

Iyer, Sriya - 2021

The economics of religion is a relatively new field of research in economics. This survey serves two purposes – it is …. Several factors have influenced the economics of religion: (1) new developments in theoretical models including spatial models … economics of religion to reflect upon in years to come …

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Economics and Religion

Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010

This paper provides an overview of the relationship between economics and religion. It first considers the effects of …

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Recent Advances in the Economics of Individual Subjective Well-Being

Stutzer, Alois - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy …

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Governance and Public Service Delivery in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2017

Citizens in low income democracies depend, to a large extent, on the state for the provision of basic services either due to absence of a market for these services or poverty. This paper synthesizes the findings of the International Growth Centre (IGC) supported research on governance and public...

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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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Women Political Leaders, Corruption and Learning : Evidence from a Large Public Program in India

Afridi, Farzana - 2013

We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...

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The Formal Sector Wage Premium and Firm Size

Badaoui, Eliane; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We show theoretically that when larger firms pay higher wages and are more likely to becaught defaulting on labour taxes, then large high-wage firms will be in the formal sector andsmall low-wage firms will be in the informal sector...

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on LeaverCharacteristics, Employment and Recidivism:An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri

Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David W.; Troske, Kenneth R. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program forsingle parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changesand their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reformsfrom the perspective of the...

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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement,Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In many countries, non-compliance with minimum wage legislation is widespread, andauthorities may be seen as having turned a blind eye to a legislation that they havethemselves passed. But if enforcement is imperfect, how effective can a minimum wage be?And if non-compliance is widespread, why...

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