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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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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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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
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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398074
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Discreteness and the welfare cost of labour supply tax distortions
Bhattarai, Keshab (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
We compare the welfare costs of tax distortions of labour supply in one and two member household discrete and continuous labour supply (leisure consumption) choice models. In the discrete models taxes induce a large response from a subset of the population, while the majority of the population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001699644
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Dynamic Multi-Sector CGE Modeling : Reply to Assmann and Hogrefe
Wendner, Ronald - 2008
Farmer and Wendner (2004) consider the sensitivity of policy effects, as implied by dynamic multi-sector computable general equilibrium models, with respect to the specification of capital and investment aggregation. They demonstrate that (small) differences in the specification of capital and...
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