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On their fiftieth anniversary, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were" extensively reviewed, both to …
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This paper distills and extends recent research on the economics of human development and social mobility. It summarizes the evidence from diverse literatures on the importance of early life conditions in shaping multiple life skills and the evidence on critical and sensitive investment periods...
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. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade …
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on whether the country exports its capital to the rest of the world or imports capital from abroad. In the capital …
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maintain, and pass on to their children, a view of the world where effort ultimately pays off and everyone gets their just … deserts. This paper offers a model that helps explain: i) why most people feel such a need to believe in a "just world"; ii … by a high prevalence of just-world beliefs among the population and relatively laissez-faire policies. The other …
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The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...
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practiced by real-world welfare states. Second, better tests confirm that the usually imagined costs would be felt only if …
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The negative income tax proposed by Milton Friedman represents one of the fundamental ideas of modern welfare policy. However, the academic literature has raised two difficulties with it, one challenging its purported work incentives and the other suggesting the possible superiority of work...
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In Fairness versus Welfare, we advance the thesis that social policies should be assessed based entirely on their effects on individuals' well-being. This thesis implies that no independent weight should be accorded to notions of fairness (other than many purely distributive notions). We support...
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hybrid social protection policy, which devotes resources to funding "state of the world contingent transfers" (SWCTs) to …
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