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Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century
Weil, David N. - 2015
In Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty uses the market value of tradeable assets to measure both productive capital and wealth. As a measure of wealth this is problematic because it ignores the value of human capital and transfer wealth, which have grown enormously over the last 300...
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We …
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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
"cutthroat capitalism" that generates greater inequality and more innovation and will become the technology leaders, while others … will free- ride on the cutthroat incentives of the leaders and choose a more "cuddly" form of capitalism. Paradoxically … equilibrium, it is not a best response for the cutthroat capitalists to switch to a more cuddly form of capitalism. We also show …
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Do Workfare Programs Live Up to Their Promises? Experimental Evidence from Cote D'Ivoire
Bertrand, Marianne; Crépon, Bruno; Marguerie, Alicia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Workfare programs are one of the most popular social protection and employment policy instruments in the developing …
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Temporary Agency Employment as a Way out of Poverty?
Autor, David - 2005
The high incidence of temporary agency employment among participants in government employment programs has catalyzed debate about whether these jobs help the poor transition into stable employment and out of poverty. We provide direct evidence on this question through analysis of a Michigan...
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Knowledge, Stigma, and HIV Testing : An Analysis of a Widespread HIV/AIDS Program
Yang, Dean; Allen, James E.; Mahumane, Arlete; Riddell, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using randomized methodologies, we study a common community HIV/AIDS program that seeks to promote HIV testing by improving knowledge and reducing stigmatizing attitudes. Contrary to expectations, the program has a substantial negative effect on HIV testing rates. We provide evidence of likely...
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Lock-downs, Loneliness and Life Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2020
Using the 2012-13 American Time Use Survey, I find that both who people spend time with and how they spend it affect their happiness, adjusted for numerous demographic and economic variables. Satisfaction among married individuals increases most with additional time spent with spouse. Among...
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Agglomeration Economies and Race Specific Spillovers
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Fu, Shihe; Ross, Stephen L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms...
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Social Frictions to Knowledge Diffusion : Evidence from an Information Intervention
Alik-Lagrange, Arthur - 2016
Does knowledge about antipoverty programs spread quickly within poor communities or are there significant frictions, such as due to social exclusion? We combine longitudinal and intra-household observations in estimating the direct knowledge gain from watching an information movie in rural...
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Mental Health Stigma
Bharadwaj, Prashant - 2015
Comparing self-reports to administrative data records on diagnosis and prescription drug use, we find that survey respondents under-report mental health conditions 36% of the time when asked about diagnosis and about 20% of the time when asked about prescription drug use. Survey respondents are...
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