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Trust, temperature fluctuations, and asylum applications
Carattini, Stefano; Veronesi, Marcella - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between generalized trust, temperature fluctuations during the maize growing season, and international migration by asylum seekers. A priori generalized trust can be expected to have an ambiguous effect on migration. On the one hand, countries with higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270546
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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015
the poverty headcount by 1.6 percentage points. Driving this result was an increase in employment, wages and non … regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social … representative household configuration to enable more robust analysis of tourism investment impacts on poverty and income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431387
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ADB Distinguished Speakers Program : Poverty and Redistribution in Emerging Economies
Mirrlees, James A. - 2012
This presentation is about poverty and redistribution in emerging economics. It was prepared for the Asian Development … Bank’s Distinguished Speakers Program held on 25 October 2011 at the ADB Headquarters. Various types of poverty alleviation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014173233
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - (revised in April 2016)
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011453984
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2016 - This Version: March 27th, 2016
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482260
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP) : an introduction and preliminary findings
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2014 - This Version: October 30th, 2014
consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID …)) containing an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010428804
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The global consumption and income project (GCIP) : an overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This Version: November 24th, 2015
distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …We introduce two separate datasets (The Global Consumption Dataset (GCD) and The Global Income Dataset (GID)) making … possible an unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409506
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Values and norms matter : on the basic determinants of long-run economic development
Voigt, Stefan; Park, Sang-Min - 2008
Over the last couple of decades, it has become a commonplace to claim that institutions matterʺ for economic development. Yet, institutions are not exogenous but the result of hu-man action. It is argued here that the values and norms held by substantial parts of society’s members are an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865933
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The origins of the division of labor in pre-modern times
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2018
This research explores the historical roots of the division of labor in pre-modern societies. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that intra-ethnic diversity had a positive effect on the division of labor across ethnicities in the pre-modern era. Exploiting a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868780
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Chapter 19. Culture, Linguistic Diversity, and Economics
Ginsburgh, Victor A.; Weber, Shlomo - In: Handbook of the economics of art and culture : volume 2, (pp. 507-543). 2014
This chapter examines how cultural similarities (or differences) represented by common language roots affect economic activities. When individuals share some common linguistic repertoires, they are more inclined to develop commercial relationships and conduct business transactions than in the...
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