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This article develops a theoretical framework to examine the relationship between land tenure agreements and households’ investment in land improvement and conservation measures. It then analyzes this relationship with a multivariate probit model based on a survey data from a sample of 560...
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The ``land abundance'' view of African history uses sparse population to explain economic institutions. I provide supporting evidence from the Egba of Nigeria. I use early colonial court records to show that Egba institutions fit the theory's predictions. Before 1914, the Egba had poorly defined...
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In an open economy with common property resources at the community level, marriage and migratory decisions crucially depend on inheritance rules on the commons. Motivated by the traditional management of the commons in the Italian Alps, we present a model that fits the evolution of property...
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send remittances. It also analyses the consequences of internal migration on the wellbeing of migrants and their family and … migration, but are worse off in many aspects, e.g. housing. This is because they live in poor, semi-legal conditions and because … migration is an expensive investment. Consequently, family solidarity remains high after migration, especially financial and …
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For Russia, migration policy – in terms of internal or/and international migration flows management – was an ever … presents a historical overview of the Soviet and Russian migration policies with special emphases on the impact on human … industrializing economy. In the post-Soviet period, international migration is the major focus of the Russian migration policy. The …
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This paper focuses on the specific question of how Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSPs) address migration and its … migration often remains poorly recognised or analysed in poorer countries in terms of its impacts on poverty reduction, whilst … attitudes towards migration in these countries are often highly negative and/or based on limited evidence, especially in …
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A model is presented to characterise the (optimal) demand for cash balances in deregulated markets. After the model of James Tobin, 1958, net balances are determined in order to maximise the expected return of a certain portfolio combining risk and capital. Unlike the model of Tobin, the prices...
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The paper evaluates the present and future international currency status of the US dollar, the euro and the yen. In section two the functions, benefits, and costs of a leading international currency are discussed. In section three key determinants for the continuous dominance of the US dollar...
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This paper analyzes the role of the initial allocation of ownership rights in transactions where parties make relationship-specific investments and contracts are incomplete. If there is high mutual dependence in production, the initial allocation of ownership rights is irrelevant. This result...
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By comparing the development of landownership in China and England, this paper explores what were behind their different trajectories. In particular, I examined the delineation of property rights, alienation of land, rent and tax, inheritance and accumulation of land. Feudal England was a...
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