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Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy : What's New?
Helliwell, John F. - 2006
This paper summarizes recent empirical research on the determinants of subjective well-being. Results from national and international samples suggest that measures of social capital, including especially the corollary measures of specific and general trust, have substantial effects on well-being...
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The Economic Consequences of Sir Robert Peel : A Quantitative Assessment of the Repeal of the Corn Laws
Irwin, Douglas A.; Chepeliev, Maksym - 2022
This paper provides a quantitative general equilibrium evaluation of the repeal of Britain’s Corn Laws in 1846, the signature trade policy event of the nineteenth century. In studying the impact of abolishing the import duty on wheat, our framework highlights (a) the large open economy impact...
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Grain Today, Gain Tomorrow : Evidence from a Storage Experiment with Savings Clubs in Kenya
Aggarwal, Shilpa - 2018
Many farmers in the developing world lack access to effective savings and storage devices. Such devices might be particularly valuable for farmers since income is received as a lump sum at harvest but expenditures are incurred throughout the year, and because grain prices are low at harvest but...
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Prices and Coupons for Breakfast Cereals
Nevo, Aviv; Wolfram, Catherine D. - 2000
This paper explores the relationship between shelf prices and manufacturers' coupons for 25 ready-to-eat breakfast cereals. Contrary to the predictions of static monopoly price discrimination, we find the shelf prices for a particular brand in a particular city are generally lower during periods...
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Industrial Actions in Schools : Strikes and Student Achievement
Baker, Michael - 2011
While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128903
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Why Do Skilled Immigrants Struggle in the Labor Market? a Field Experiment with Six Thousand Resumes
Oreopoulos, Philip - 2011
), but were no different compared to foreign applicants from Britain. 2) Employers valued experience acquired in Canada much … more than if acquired in a foreign country. Changing foreign resumes to include only experience from Canada raised callback … Canada or not, or whether the applicant obtained additional Canadian education or not had no impact on the chances for an …
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When Opportunity Knocks, Who Answers? New Evidence on College Achievement Awards
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian commuter campus. The award scheme offered linear cash incentives for course grades above 70. Awards were paid every term. Program participants also had access to peer advising by...
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Shareholder Democracy in Canada
Morck, Randall - 2010
. One option, for which Canada is relatively well prepared, is the British model of activist independent institutional …
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Attenuation Bias in Measuring the Wage Impact of Immigration
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010
Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it has been difficult to document such effects. The weak evidence may be partly due to sampling error in a commonly used measure of the supply shift, the immigrant share of the...
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Trade Liberalization in a Multinational-Dominated Industry : A Theoretical and Applied General-Equilibrium Analysis
Hunter, Linda - 2010
. Using an applied GE model, we find that (A) the gains to Mexico are significant and the effects on the US and Canada are … markets) results in large gains for Mexico as the Mexican industry is forced to rationalize, while losses to the US and Canada …
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