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Rent Sharing in the Multi-Fibre Arrangement : Theory and Evidence from US Apparel Imports from Hong Kong

Krishna, Kala - 1991

Available estimates of tariff equivalents of quotas and welfare calculations on the costs of MFA quotas for developing countries are based on the premise of perfect competition in both product and license markets. It is also assumed that the exporting countries which administer the MFA quotas...

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Why Do Children Take Care of Their Elderly Parents? Are the Japanese Any Different?

Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2016

In this paper, we conduct a theoretical analysis of why individuals provide care and attention to their elderly parents using a two-period overlapping generations model with endogenous saving and a "contest success function" and test this model using micro data from a Japanese household survey,...

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The Effect of Effectiveness : Donor Response to Aid Effectiveness in a Direct Mail Fundraising Experiment

Karlan, Dean - 2014

We test how donors respond to new information about a charity's effectiveness. Freedom from Hunger implemented a test of its direct marketing solicitations, varying letters by whether they include a discussion of their program's impact as measured by scientific research. The base script, used...

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'We Are Not Guinea Pigs' : The Effects of Disclosure of Medical Misconduct on Vaccine Compliance

Archibong, Belinda; Annan, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

In 1996, following an epidemic, Pfizer tested a new drug on 200 children in Muslim Nigeria. 11 children died while … others were disabled. We study the effects of the disclosure, in 2000, of the deaths of Muslim children in the Pfizer trials … on vaccine compliance among Muslim mothers. Muslim mothers reduced routine vaccination of children born after the 2000 …

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The Impact of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Purchases and Consumption by Adults and Children

Cawley, John H. - 2018

other beverages. We generally do not find detectable effects of the tax on children's consumption of beverages, although we … find a substantial reduction in consumption of added sugars from sweetened beverages among children who had high pre …

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The Effects of Two Influential Early Childhood Interventions on Health and Healthy Behaviors

Conti, Gabriella - 2015

This paper examines the long-term impacts on health and healthy behaviors of two of the oldest and most widely cited U.S. early childhood interventions evaluated by the method of randomization with long-term follow-up: the Perry Preschool Project (PPP) and the Carolina Abecedarian Project (ABC)....

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences : Empirical Evidence and Implications for Firm Strategy

Anderson, Soren T. - 2013

We document a strong correlation in the brand of automobile chosen by parents and their adult children, using data from …

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Tight Clothing : How the MFA Affects Asian Apparel Exports

Evans, Carolyn L. - 2004

International trade in apparel and textiles is regulated by a system of bilateral tariffs and quotas known as the Multifiber Arrangement or MFA. Using a time series of detailed product-level data from the United States on the quotas and tariffs that comprise the MFA, we analyze how the MFA...

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Distance, Time, and Specialization

Evans, Carolyn L. - 2003

Time is money, and distance matters. We model the interaction of these truisms, and show the implications for global specialization and trade: products where timely delivery is important will be produced near the source of final demand, where wages will be higher as a result. In the model,...

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Apparel Prices 1914-93 and the Hulten/Brueghel Paradox

Gordon, Robert J. - 2005

Backcasting upward bias in price index over long periods of time yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, raising the possibility that price index bias for important products may have been zero or even negative at some point in the past. This paper...

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