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classical growth theory has with the early development theory, as Young’s externalities-fuelled, cumulative growth process …
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investigate the incentives to expend effort for a prize that produces consumption externalities and consider alternative … regulatory policies. We find relatively more global consumption externalities will increase (decrease) rent seeking when … consumption externalities are negative (positive). We show how introducing Pigouvian taxation (possibly with revenue transfer) and …
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In a multi-agent setting, individuals often compare own performance with that of their peers. These comparisons influence agents incentives and lead to a noncooperative game, even if the agents have to complete independent tasks. I show that depending on the interplay of the peer effects, agents...
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with the share of college graduates in a given province. The individual fixed effect model shows that the external returns to education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an...
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