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India Protection Index : An Objective Measurement of the Economic and Social Well-Being of the Indian Population

Shukla, Rajesh - 2019

The success and failure of any democratic government is gauged in terms of how effectively it has fulfilled its constitutional obligation of enhancing social and economic well-being, particularly the common man. While developed economies use a set of indices to measure well-being, a systematic...

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Will China's Demographic Transition Exacerbate its Income Inequality? A CGE Modeling with Top-Down Microsimulation

Wang, Xinxin - 2016

Demographic transition due to population aging is an emerging trend throughout the developing world, and it is especially acute in China, which has undergone demographic transition more rapidly than have most industrial economies. This paper quantifies the distributional effects in the context...

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India Protection Index

Shukla, Rajesh; Rai, Anil; Monga, Nitasha - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 4 (2010) 3, pp. 339-367

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Altruism, Macroeconomic Aggregates and the Cyclical Behavior of Fertility : Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data

Abo-Zaid, Salem M. - 2015

Using U.S. data for 1976-2013, this paper studies the effects of various macroeconomic variables, particularly the national debt, government budget deficits and taxes, on fertility decisions over the business cycle. A rise in the debt-GDP ratio, government spending-GDP ratio and the deficit-GDP...

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The single-mindedness of labor unions when transfers are not Lump-Sum

canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019

natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier evidence consistent with son preference in that having a female … bargaining power. In contrast, some evidence for son preference in fertility persists among immigrants. Immigrant families that … significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For …

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - Revised, October 2019

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017

immigrants and natives. Among the population in the aggregate, as well as among the native-born separately, consistent with Dahl … costly. For immigrants, we also find evidence that having a female first child contributes to female headship, with an effect … further supported by evidence that, for both first and second generation immigrants (second generation immigrants were …

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Language proficiency and homeownership : evidence from U.S. immigrants

Luik, Marc-André; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich; Voss, Simon - 2023

In this paper we deliver first causal evidence on the relationship between immigrant host country language proficiency and homeownership. Using an instrumental variable strategy, we find a substantial positive impact of language skills on the propensity to own a home and the quality of housing....

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Fairness spillovers : the case of taxation

Cornelißen, Thomas; Himmler, Oliver; König, Tobias - 2010

It is standardly assumed that individuals adjust to perceived unfairness or norm violations in precisely the same area or relationship where the original offense has occurred. However, grievances over being exposed to injustice may have even broader consequences and also spill over to other...

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