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Decomposing the Effects of Economic Policies on Poverty Trends in Cameroon : A Double Calibration Micro Simulated General Equilibrium Analysis
Emini, Christian Arnault - 2014
This paper aims to bring out the determinants of significant poverty alleviation observed in Cameroon between 1993 and 2001. It focuses on the decomposition of poverty and growth changes, in order to assess the intrinsic contribution of each major economic policy implemented in Cameroon during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012708466
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Decomposing the Effects of Economic Policies on Poverty Trends in Cameroon : A Double Calibration Micro Simulated General Equilibrium Analysis (Décomposition Des Effets Des Politiq...
Emini, Christian Arnault; Feunou Kanmi, Dorine - 2014
politiques économiques majeures menées au Cameroun, dans la réduction de la pauvreté entre 1993 et 2001. Pour cela, un modèle de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203122
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Subsidizing health-conscious behavior now or later
Danilowicz-Gösele, Kamila; Schwager, Robert - 2016
In a model where consumers have quasi-hyperbolic preferences, we compare immediate subsidies paid for health …-conscious consumption and future subsidies rewarding good health outcome. We characterize the subsidy rates which implement the unbiased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420788
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Pareto-improving bequest taxation
Grossmann, Volker; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
Altruistic parents may transfer resources to their offspring by providing education, and by leaving bequests. We show … with only intended bequests, by enhancing incentives of parents to invest in their children's education. This result holds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261311
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Education and Consanguineous Marriage
Akyol, Pelin; Mocan, Naci H. - 2021
serious health problems for the offspring and constitutes an economic problem with its associated medical costs and the impact … data from Turkey and leveraging an education reform which increased mandatory schooling by three years, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252380
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing, and would it be efficient?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2024
may be self-enforcing also in a more general model where education is an alternative to work, and the disutility of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505309
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country: An optimal taxation problem with moral hazard
Cigno, Alessandro - 2010
work a child does, are private information, the second-best policy uses a combination of need and merit based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270527
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How to deal with covert child labour, and give children an effective education, in a poor developing country
Cigno, Alessandro - 2011
As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278558
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Can a ban on child labour be self-enforcing?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2023
total one never is, if education is available, and the disutility of child labour can be compensated by the expected utility … self-enforcing, or actually counterproductive. If the government wants to re- duce child labour and raise education to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014340123
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Innovations in microfinance for the rural poor : exchange of knowledge and implications for policy ; proceedings of the international workshop held from 8 - 13 November, 1998 in Ac...
Zeller, Manfred (contributor); Sharma, Manohar (contributor) - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001426800