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The health systems of Japan and the Asian Tigers--Hong Kong (China), the Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan (China)--and the recent reforms to them provide many potentially valuable lessons to East Asia's developing countries. All five systems have managed to keep a check on health...
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This paper is an attempt to broaden economic discourse by importing insights into human behavior not just from psychology, but also from sociology and anthropology. Whereas the concept of the decision-maker in standard economics is the rational actor and, in early work in behavioral economics,...
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understanding of how culture, politics, and development interact. Today?s leading theorists of culture and development represent a …
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economics that illuminates the tight interlinkages between preferences, culture, and institutions and points to new policy …
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Economists have traditionally treated preferences as exogenously given. Preferences are assumed to be influenced by neither beliefs nor the constraints people face. As a consequence, changes in behaviour are explained exclusively in terms of changes in the set of feasible alternatives. Here the...
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All over the world, people are prevented from participating fully in society through mechanisms that go beyond the structural and institutional barriers identified by rational choice theory (poverty, exclusion by law or force, taste-based and statistical discrimination, and externalities from...
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the law that increased the minimum employment age from 14 to 16 in Brazil in 1998, and uncovers its impact on time …
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enrichment of the curriculum. In Brazil, a nationwide policy -- Mais Educa??o -- was implemented in 2008 with this objective …
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simplification program in Brazil called SIMPLES on firms' formalization rates and performance indicators. Using the same data set but …
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been done. This paper estimates the effects of women?s police stations in Brazil on female homicides, as a measure of the …
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