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Growth Strategies
Rodrik, Dani - 2003
This is an attempt to derive broad, strategic lessons from the diverse experience with economic growth in last fifty years. The paper revolves around two key arguments. One is that neoclassical economic analysis is a lot more flexible than its practitioners in the policy domain have generally...
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Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization : Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895
Blanc, Guillaume - 2019
Using a unique, comprehensive household-level dataset for a single French village from 1730 to 1895, we study the process of modernization during a period of rapid institutional and demographic transformation. We document changes in fertility, mortality, human capital and intergenerational...
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The Rise and Fall of Local Elections in China : Theory and Empirical Evidence on the Autocrat's Trade-off
Martinez-Bravo, Monica - 2017
We propose a simple informational theory to explain why autocratic regimes introduce local elections. Because citizens have better information on local officials than the distant central government, delegation of authority via local elections improves selection and performance of local...
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Temporary Migration and Endogenous Risk Sharing in Village India
Morten, Melanie - 2016
When people can self-insure via migration, they may have less need for informal risk sharing. At the same time, informal insurance may reduce the need to migrate. To understand the joint determination of migration and risk sharing I study a dynamic model of risk sharing with limited commitment...
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Healing the Wounds : Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-war Institutional Reforms
Casey, Katherine - 2012
While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone as a hopeless case, the country's economic and political performance over the last decade has defied expectations. We examine how several factors--including the legacy of war,...
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India's Patterns of Development : What Happened, What Follows
Kochhar, Kalpana - 2006
India seems to have followed an idiosyncratic pattern of development, certainly compared to other fast-growing Asian economies. While the emphasis on services rather than manufacturing has been widely noted, within manufacturing India has emphasized skill-intensive rather than labor-intensive...
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Optimal Income Transfer Programs : Intensive Versus Extensive Labor Supply Responses
Saez, Emmanuel - 2000
income distribution and the redistribution tastes of the government. When behavioral responses are concentrated along the …
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How Effective is Redistribution Under the Social Security Benefit Formula?
Gustman, Alan L. - 2000
for participants in the Health and Retirement Study to investigate redistribution under the current social security … high lifetime earnings to those with low lifetime earnings. However, much of this apparent redistribution is from men to … the total lifetime earnings, and spouse and survivor benefits are taken into account, the extent of redistribution from …
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Differential Mortality and the Value of Individual Account Retirement Annuities
Brown, Jeffrey R. - 2000
This paper examines the extent of redistribution that would occur under various annuity and bequest options as part of … account balance. However, efforts to reduce the extent of redistribution generally do so at the cost of significantly lower …
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The Progressivity of Social Security
Coronado, Julia Lynn - 2000
How much does the current social security system really redistribute from rich to poor? We use the PSID to estimate lifetime wage profiles and actual earnings each year for a sample of 1778 individuals, and we use mortality probabilities to calculate expected payroll taxes and social security...
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