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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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Income and Population Growth
Brückner, Markus - 2013
Do populations grow as countries become richer? In this paper we estimate the effects on population growth of shocks to national income that are plausibly exogenous and unlikely to be driven by technological change. For a panel of over 139 countries spanning the period 1960-2007 we interact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080869
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The Legacy Lead Deposition in Soils and its Impact on Cognitive Function in Preschool-Aged Children in the United States
Clay, Karen - 2019
Surface soil contamination has been long recognized as an important pathway of human lead exposure, and is now a worldwide health concern. This study estimates the causal effects of exposure to lead in topsoil on cognitive ability among 5-year-old children. We draw on individual level data from...
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
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Family Economics Writ Large
Greenwood, Jeremy - 2016
Powerful currents have reshaped the structure of families over the last century. There has been (i) a dramatic drop in fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline in marriage and a rise in divorce; (iv) a higher...
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How Disasters Affect Local Labor Markets : The Effects of Hurricanes in Florida
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2007
) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …
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Technological Progress and (Un)Employment Development
Blien, Uwe - 2017
In recent times the employment effects of technical progress raised much intention. Will recent productivity gains lead … employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if product demand is inelastic. A …, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office. We estimate Marshallian type demand …
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Will GDP Growth Increase Happiness in Developing Countries?
Clark, Andrew - 2011
This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always...
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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth
Campos, Nauro F. - 2010
Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to systematically evaluate the evidence addressing this question. It uses a data set comprising 460 estimates of the effect of corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors...
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Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2010
We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
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