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Targeting Poverty Under Complementarities : Evidence from Indonesia's Unified Targeting System
Tohari, Achmad - 2017
coefficients, we evaluate Indonesia's three largest social programs. The setting for our evaluation is the launch of Indonesia …'s Unified Targeting system, an innovation developed to reduce targeting errors and increase program complementarities …
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2013
We measure the effects of trade liberalization over the period of 1993-2002 on regional poverty levels in 259 … four three-year periods. We find that poverty reduced more in regions that were more strongly exposed to import tariff … increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects …
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Dann warens nur noch vier Wie viele (und welche) Maßnahmen der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik brauchen wir noch?
Eichhorst, Werner; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik ist im Zuge der Hartz-Reformen grundsätzlich neustrukturiert und systematisch evaluiert worden. Die vorliegenden Evaluationsberichte derersten drei Hartz-Gesetze belegen nun vielfach, welche Instrumente der aktivenArbeitsmarktpolitik sich durch ihre Wirksamkeit...
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Back to Edgeworth? Estimating the Value of Time Using Hedonic Experiences
Krekel, Christian; MacKerron, George - 2023
Following early economist Francis Y. Edgeworth's proposal to measure people's hedonic experiences as they go about their daily lives, we use a smartphone app that over eight years randomly asked a panel of 30, 936 UK residents (N = 2, 235, 733) about their momentary feelings and activities to...
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Information Nudges, Subsidies, and Crowding Out of Attention : Field Evidence from Energy Efficiency Investments
Rodemeier, Matthias; Löschel, Andreas - 2023
How can information substitute or complement financial incentives such as Pigouvian subsidies? We answer this question in a large-scale field experiment that cross-randomizes energy efficiency subsidies with information about the financial savings of LED lighting. Information has two effects: It...
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Catching Up is Hard to Do : Undergraduate Prestige, Elite Graduate Programs, and the Earnings Premium
Hersch, Joni - 2019
A commonly held perception is that an elite graduate degree can "scrub" a less prestigious but less costly undergraduate degree. Using data from the National Survey of College Graduates from 2003 through 2017, this paper examines the relationship between the status of undergraduate degrees and...
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Reallocation and the Role of Firm Composition Effects on Aggregate Wage Dynamics
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni - 2018
Aggregate wages display little cyclicality compared to what a standard model would predict. Wage rigidities are an obvious candidate but a recent strand of the literature has emphasized the need to take into account the growing importance of worker composition effects during downturns. With...
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The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences : Evidence from Post-Wwii Southern Germany
Fiorini, Luciana Costa - 2020
Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents testing for causal effects because (i) people can select into communities while (ii) government...
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Allocating Subsidies for Private Investments to Maximize Jobs Impacts
Robalino, David A. - 2020
Governments often aim to influence the amount and sectoral allocation of private investments through explicit or implicit subsidies. The rules used to select projects to benefit from subsidies may vary, depending on the policy objective. This paper develops a general framework to allocate...
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Inequality and Market Concentration, When Shareholding is More Skewed than Consumption
Gans, Joshua S. - 2019
Economic theory suggests that monopoly prices hurt consumers but benefit shareholders. But in a world where individuals or households can be both consumers and shareholders, the impact of market power on inequality depends in part on the relative distribution of consumption and corporate equity...
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