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public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it …This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With … to increase the tax rate for public education initially but lower the tax rate in a later stage. Starting from a high …
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … of growth and aims to expose the obstacles households face to improve their economic situation. The main focus of the …
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Measuring continuous change or growth in individual students' academic abilities over time currently uses several … investigated a single integrated model of underlying growth within an Item Response Theory framework as a potential alternative to … Expectation-Maximization algorithm under variations of several conditions, including the form of the underlying growth trajectory …
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growth at the county level over the period 1994-2000. Since program participation was largely determined by whether a county …
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Analizo nuevos datos acerca de las expectativas probabilísticas subjetivas de precios de la vivienda recogidos en la Encuesta Financiera de las Familias (EFF). Se pide a los hogares que repartan diez puntos entre cinco escenarios distintos relativos al cambio en el precio de sus viviendas...
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Estudiamos cómo afecta el sistema electoral a la presencia de mujeres en política usando un modelo en el que tanto los votantes como los partidos pueden tener un sesgo de género. Aplicamos el modelo a las elecciones municipales españolas, en las que, según la ley, los municipios utilizan...
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The purpose of the paper is to investigate how Asset-Backed Securitization (ABS) can be used to fund infrastructure development in developing countries. This paper also presents a case study on how ABS has been used to fund infrastructure in Australia and points out the lessons that developing...
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This paper first reviews major recent works broadly dedicated to the role innovation plays in development and discusses possible reasons for the marginal role accorded low-income countries. It then reports insights from a systematic review of the literature since the late 1990s that implicitly...
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Context The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set targets related to important global poverty, health, and sustainability issues. A critical but underinvestigated question for planning and allocating resources toward the MDGs is how interventions related to one MDG might affect...
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