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Worldwide protests against the perceived lack of economic opportunity and failure of governance have refocused attention on the need for inclusive growth and strong institutions. In developing countries, large informal economies limit state capacity to deliver governance and strong institutions,...
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Rural areas often have more than one regime of property rights and production. Large, private-property farms owned by powerful landowners coexist with subsistence peasants who farm small plots with limited property rights. At the same time, there is broad consensus that individual,...
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great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the …
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work, that workfare harms the welfare of the poor and thereby reduces a society’s welfare in general. This paper analyzes … mutually exclusive. Welfare increases due to the fact that out of the three effects workfare entails, beyond the detected …
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This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the...
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For more than 25 years, the Social Security Trust Fund has been projected to run out of money in 2033 (give or take a few years), potentially causing benefits to be severely reduced in the absence of corrective legislative action. Today (February 2024), projections are made by the Social...
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The welfare costs of dynamic factor taxes are analyzed in a dynamic general equilibrium model with heterogeneous … marginal welfare costs of factor taxes. Heterogeneity implies that taxes have feedback or distribution effects, beyond standard … efficiency effects, that may lead to nonstandard aggregate dynamics. Also, marginal welfare costs vary systematically with …
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