Simon Kuznets’ (1955) hypothesis that as a country develops, a natural cycle develops where inequality first increases, then decreases, has become known at the Kuznets curve. This pattern has also been applied to the environment, an ‘Environmental Kuznets curve’, showing that as...

This paper evaluates the impact of a policy that was implemented to reduce the energy intensity of firms in some manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and technical change. Using plant-level panel data on...

Introduction : obesity and the neoliberal diet -- The neoliberal food regime and its crisis : the dynamic factors -- Neoregulation of agricultural biotechnology at the national and suprastate scales -- Food and inequality in the United States -- Class diets in the NAFTA region: divergence or...

Die industrielle Massentierhaltung nimmt trotz des Biotrends immer gewaltigere Ausmasse an. Das schädigt massiv unsere Gesundheit, zerstört die Umwelt und quält Tiere. In diesem System nimmt Deutschland als einer der gröt︢en Fleischproduzenten Europas eine skandalöse Schlüsselposition...

Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected real incomes. The bias is substantial and systematic: the poorer is a country, the...

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and...

Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a...