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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2007
traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … personal factors reduces the estimate of income immobility by around 30 percent. There are also large variations in country …-specific income mobility (estimated to explain some additional 10 percent of inter-temporal income variation). Analyzing the …
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis, and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
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Leadership and influence: Evidence from an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision
D'Adda, Giovanna - 2011
This paper studies the effect of leadership on the level and evolution of pro-social behavior using an artefactual field experiment on local public good provision. Participants decide how much to contribute to an actual conservation project. They can then revise their donations after being...
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Institutions and behavior: Experimental evidence on the effects of democracy
Dal Bó, Pedro; Foster, Andrew; Putterman, Louis - 2007
We present results from a novel experiment on the effect of a policy designed to encourage cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma game. We find that the effect of this policy on the level of cooperation is greater when it was chosen democratically by the subjects than when it was exogenously...
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Demand forces of technical change: Evidence from the Chinese manufacturing industry
Beerli, Andreas; Weiss, Franziska J.; Zilibotti, Fabrizio; … - 2018
of potential market size, which is driven only by changes in the Chinese income distribution. This measure is exogenous …
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Perverse incentives at the banks? Evidence from a natural experiment
Agarwal, Sumit; Wang, Faye H. - 2009
Incentive provision is a central question in modern economic theory. During the run up to the financial crisis, many banks attempted to encourage loan underwriting by giving out incentive packages to loan officers. Using a unique data set on small business loan officer compensation from a major...
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Immigration, fertility and human capital: A model of economic decline of the West
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2010
redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income …
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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor … demonstrates that income redistribution, although financed by taxes levied on the skilled, generates a mechanism that, via its …
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What is the impact of an exogenous shock to the wage share? VAR results for the US economy, 1973-2018
Basu, Deepankar; Gautham, Leila - 2019
This paper uses a novel empirical strategy to present empirical estimates of the effect of an exogenous shock to distribution on demand and accumulation for the US economy from 1973 to 2018. We use recursive vector autoregressions to identify the impact of shocks to the wage share. We impose...
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A global analysis of income distribution and capacity utilization interactions: The structuralist view
Vechsuruck, Tanadej - 2017
The demand and distributive regimes are estimated from 62 countries around the world based on the Structuralist Goodwin model. The distributive regime appears to be Marxian/profit-squeeze and the demand exhibits a weekly profit-led regime. The profitled demand regime and the profit-squeeze...
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