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Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

Casari, Marco - 2014

Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...

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Better Means More : Property Rights and High-Growth Aspiration Entrepreneurship

Estrin, Saul - 2009

This paper contrasts the determinants of entrepreneurial entry and high-growth aspiration entrepreneurship. Using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) surveys for 42 countries over the period 1998-2005, we analyse how institutional environment and entrepreneurial characteristics affect...

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Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Francesconi, Marco - 2006

This paper develops a theory of the allocation of authority between two parties that produce impure public goods. We … show that the optimal allocation depends on technological factors, the parties' valuations of the goods produced, and the …, irrespective of preference considerations. There are some situations in which this allocation is optimal even if the degree of …

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Entrepreneurial Entry : Which Institutions Matter?

Aidis, Ruta - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

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Property Rights and Gender Bias : Evidence from Land Reform in West Bengal

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016

While land reforms are typically pursued in order to raise productivity and reduce inequality across households, an unintended consequence may be increased within-household gender inequality. We analyse a tenancy registration programme in West Bengal, and find that it increased child survival...

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Decolonization, Property Rights and Language Conflicts

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2017

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights protection leads to high decentralized expropriation. We show that improvements in governance institutions that facilitate property rights protection might exacerbate such...

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Are Intra-Household Allocations Policy Neutral? Theory and Empirical Evidence

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2011

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Changes in alimony laws are shown to affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing couples,...

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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade

Meckl, Jürgen - 2011

We propose occupational decisions of heterogeneous individuals as an alternative mechanism of explaining the distribution of firm productivities emphasized by empirical studies. Thus, we integrate the frameworks of Melitz (2003), and of Manasse and Turrini (2001) that establish the theoretical...

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Employment Protection, Technology Choice, and Worker Allocation

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2011

Using a country-industry panel dataset (EUKLEMS) we uncover a robust empirical regularity, namely that high-risk innovative sectors are relatively smaller in countries with strict employment protection legislation (EPL). To understand the mechanism, we develop a two-sector matching model where...

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Decomposing the Sources of Earnings Inequality : Assessing the Role of Reallocation

Andersson, Fredrik - 2011

This paper exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data from the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate the contribution of worker and firm reallocation to changes in earnings inequality within and across industries between 1992 and 2003. We find that factors that cannot be measured using...

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