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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?
Moers, Luc - 1999
results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment …
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For Better and for Worse - How Unpaid Bride Wealth provides Security
Hoogeveen, Hans - 2000
The obligation to pay bride wealth at marriage is usually associated with thecontinuation of the lineage or considered a compensation for the loss of laborfor the family that provides the bride. In this paper a different interpretationis advanced. The obligation to pay of bride wealth is seen as...
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Abolishing GDP
van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2007
Expectations and information about the growth of GDP per capita have a large influence on decisions made by private and public economic agents. It will be argued here that GDP (per capita) is far from a robust indicator of social welfare, and that its use as such must be regarded as a serious...
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; van Rens, Thijs - 2002
-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …
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Growth and Inequality: A Meta-Analysis
de Dominicis, Laura; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Florax, … - 2006
In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - 2004
general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …
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Distributionally Sensitive Measurement and Valuation of Population Health
Da Costa, Shaun; O'Donnell, Owen; Van Gestel, Raf - 2023
We introduce a measure of population health that is sensitive to dispersion in both age-specific health and lifespan. The measure generalises health-adjusted life expectancy without requiring more data. A transformation of change in the measure gives a distributionally sensitive monetary...
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Gigerenzer the Decided: A Tale of Difficult Distinctions
Heukelom, Floris - 2005
This paper provides an overview of the work of Gigerenzer, thereby focusing on his criticisms of the Heuristics and Biases theory of Kahneman and Tversky. It is proposed that Gigerenzer's work can be both thematically and chronologically organized as: historical research on statistics =...
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The Role and Evolution of Central Authorities
Frijters, Paul; Tieman, Alexander F. - 1999
In this paper we argue that authorities aid cooperation by means ofdirect coordination or the enforcement of re-commitment devices suchas contract laws.Credible threats of violence allow this role. In alocal interaction model, an authority forms if mutually connected individuals with sufficient...
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Evolution of Harvesting Strategies: Replicator and Resource Dynamics
Noailly, Joelle; van den Bergh, Jeroen; Withagen, Cees - 2001
Economic theories of managing renewable resources, such as fisheries and forestry, traditionally assume that individual harvesters are perfectly rational and thus able to compute the harvesting strategy that maximizes their discounted profits. The current paper presents an alternative approach...
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