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What does ex-post evidence tell us about the output effects of future tax reforms?

Kneller, Richard; Misch, Florian - 2011

This paper reviews the existing evidence on the effects of tax reforms on output levels and growth over the short and long run from different strands of the literature. It develops and applies criteria to evaluate the usefulness of ex-post estimates to predict the effects of tax reforms ex-ante....

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Aid and the fiscal and monetary responses to Dutch disease

Roe, Alan - 2011

This study assesses the fiscal and monetary management challenges that can be associated with large inflows of foreign aid. It provides a brief overview of the literature on Dutch Disease (DD) as applied to mineral wealth and then assesses the conventional policy responses that are available to...

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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution : a review of the literature

Stichnoth, Holger; Van der Straeten, Karine - 2009

La Ferrara (2005a), and have not been covered by a survey before. -- redistribution ; social security ; welfare state …

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Do natural disasters affect human capital? : an assessment based on existing empirical evidence

Baez, Javier; Fuente, Alejandro de la; Santos, Indhira - 2010

The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...

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Certainty and severity of sanctions in classical and behavioral models of deterrence : a survey

Entorf, Horst - 2012

This survey summarizes the classical fundamentals of modern deterrence theory, covers major theoretical and empirical findings on the impact of certainty and severity of punishment (and the interplay thereof) as well as underlying methodological problems, gives an overview of limitations and...

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Some remarks on the effectiveness of primary education interventions

Silva, Olmo - 2009

In this paper I survey the recent economics of education literature in order to identify which education policies can effectively improve the quality of primary schooling, as measured by pupil test-based achievements. Particular attention is devoted to the experience of England, a country which...

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Neighbourhood effects research at a crossroads : ten challenges for future research

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David - 2012

Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will give new direction to the neighbourhood effects...

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Welfare migration

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline - 2012

This chapter reviews and discusses major theories and empirical studies about the welfare magnet hypothesis, i.e. whether immigrants are more likely to move to countries with generous welfare systems. Although economic theory predicts that welfare generosity affects the number, composition and...

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Economic incentives and social preferences : a preference-based Lucas critique of public policy

Bowles, Samuel; Polanía Reyes, Sandra - 2009

counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies … social preferences may be either substitutes or complements is developed and evidence for the mechanisms underlying this non … experiments ; social preferences ; second best ; motivational crowding ; explicit incentives …

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Studying the NAIRU and its implications

Bozani, Vasiliki; Drydakis, Nick - 2011

The current paper is a means of demonstrating our knowledge about macroeconomic theories, and its key variables, phenomena, and history. Given the key role that the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment (NAIRU) has in the macroeconomic theory as well as its role in determining...

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