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This paper argues that welfare programs are linked with the destruction of social capital, as measured by interpersonal trust in laboratory games. The paper employs experimental data for representative samples of individuals in four Latin American capital cities (Bogota, Lima, Montevideo, and...
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Development accounting literature usually attributes the observed cross-country variation in per capita income to differences in countries' factor endowments and total factor productivity (the Solow residual). While the former can be relatively straightforward interpreted and measured, the...
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Development accounting literature usually attributes the observed cross-country variation in per capita income to differences in countries' factor endowments and total factor productivity (the Solow residual). While the former can be relatively straightforward interpreted and measured, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010663002
This article evaluates a body of recent work that uses field and natural experiments to answer the question of whether …
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This paper forms part of a wider project to show the significance of archival material on distinguished economists, in this case Lauchlin Currie (1902-93), who studied and taught at Harvard before entering government service at the US Treasury and Federal Reserve Board as the intellectual leader...
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In this brief text, we will try to discuss the problems of the Brazilian Economy and how these problems are affected by the globalization.
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Sixty years after its entry in academic circles, development economics has now been mainstreamed in economics. It has proven itself in placing articles in top economic journals, in mobilizing a vast membership of students and researchers, in receiving important financial contributions from...
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Health and income are strongly correlated both within and across countries, yet the extent to which improvements in income have a causal effect on health status remains controversial. We revisit this question with an investigation of short-term fluctuations in aggregate income and infant...
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Life expectancy is one of the development indicators. In the human development reports published by United Nations, it is used as a development indicator, however this usage is not necessary. Since life expectancy at birth can prove a position in the future. Hence all of statistical analyses are...
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