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with the theory of expected utility. The present study reviews recent trends in the modeling of decision theories, with a … particular focus on the distinctive features of prospect theory. The novel contribution of this study is an empirical analysis of … study of the dissertation investigates the effect of income on democracy, based on the premise that the theory of critical …
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This article draws from a study that investigates the link between development, economic growth and the economic losses from natural hazards. Increasing investments in disaster risk reduction have led to a significant reduction in human casualties, but economic losses from natural disasters have...
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several gender-based or gender-related experiments - a reduction in the cost of child rearing, improved wage equality in the …
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This paper introduces a model of gender inequality and economic growth that focuses on the determination of women … economies, and numerous policy experiments are conducted to investigate how various aspects of gender inequality are related to … the growth performance of the economy. The analysis shows that improving gender equality can contribute significantly to …
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Seguino (2000) shows that gender wage discrimination in export-oriented semi-industrialized countries might be … discrimination data, we replicate the analysis using data from a meta-study on gender wage discrimination and do not find any … evidence that more discrimination might further economic growth on the contrary: if anything the impact of gender inequality is …
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