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Bernheim, B. Douglas - 2013

The absence of self-control is often viewed as an important correlate of persistent poverty. Using a standard … poverty damages the ability to exercise self-control. Our theory invokes George Ainslie's notion of "personal rules … assets above which personal rules support unbounded accumulation, and a second threshold below which there is a "poverty trap …

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Taxes and Time Allocation : Evidence from Single Women and Men

Gelber, Alexander M.; Mitchell, Joshua - 2011

Hundreds of papers have investigated how incentives and policies affect hours worked in the market. This paper examines how income taxes affect time allocation in the other two-thirds of the day. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from 1975 to 2004, we analyze the response of single...

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Kosher Pork

Drazen, Allan - 2011

Both conventional wisdom and leading academic research view pork barrel spending as antithetical to responsible policymaking in times of crisis. In this paper we present an alternative view. When agents are heterogeneous in their ideology and in their information about the economic situation,...

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The Non-Cognitive Returns to Class Size

Dee, Thomas S. - 2010

Although recent evidence suggests that non-cognitive skills such as engagement matter for academic and economic success, there is little evidence on how key educational inputs affect the development of these skills. We present a re-analysis of follow-up data from the Project STAR class-size...

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Does Development Aid Undermine Political Accountability? Leader and Constituent Responses to a Large-Scale Intervention

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2015

Comprehensive evaluation requires tracking indirect effects of interventions, such as politicians and constituents reacting to the arrival of a development program. We study political economy responses to a large scale intervention in Bangladesh, where 346 communities consisting of 16,600...

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A Resource Belief-Curse? Oil and Individualism

Di Tella, Rafael - 2013

We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during the period 1983-2004. The measure of beliefs is the answer to a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure...

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Political Pressure Deflection

Anderson, James E.; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2022

Much economic policy is deliberately shifted away from direct political processes to administrative processes --- political pressure deflection. Pressure deflection poses a puzzle to standard political economy models which suggest that having policies to `sell' is valuable to politicians. The...

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Disability in Belgium : There is More than Meets the Eye

Jousten, Alain - 2011

The paper provides a perspective on the development of the Belgian disability insurance system. Using both survey and administrative data, it sketches a picture of the (changing) factors leading towards disability, as well as the outcomes in terms of program participation. The paper shows the...

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Importers, Exporters, and Exchange Rate Disconnect

Amiti, Mary - 2012

Large exporters are simultaneously large importers. In this paper, we show that this pattern is key to understanding low aggregate exchange rate pass-through as well as the variation in pass-through across exporters. First, we develop a theoretical framework that combines variable markups due to...

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Concording EU Trade and Production Data Over Time

Van Beveren, Ilke - 2012

This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...

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