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Fagiolo, Giorgio; Reyes, Javier; Schiavo, Stefano - 2007

This paper employs a weighted network analysis to study the empirical properties of the world trade web and their evolution over time. We show that most countries are characterized by weak trade links; yet, there exists a group of countries featuring a large number of strong relationships, thus...

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More or better? Measuring quality versus quantity in food consumption

Manig, Corinna; Moneta, Alessio - 2009

nutrition value in terms of calories. We analyze how food consumption patterns change with increasing income by estimating both … income elasticities of quantity with income elasticities of quality. In these Russian data for years 2000-2002 the reaction … of quality to changes in income is significantly stronger than the reaction of quantity to income changes suggesting that …

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Assessing the impact of credit ratings and economic performance on firm default

Bottazzi, Giulio; Grazzi, Marco; Secchi, Angelo; … - 2007

different time distance to default. Finally, probit and logit estimation of default probabilities, testing for the simultaneous …

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Modeling Area-Level Health Rankings

Courtemanche, Charles; Soneji, Samir; Tchernis, Rusty - 2013

We propose a Bayesian factor analysis model to rank the health of localities. Mortality and morbidity variables empirically contribute to the resulting rank, and population and spatial correlation are incorporated into a measure of uncertainty. We use county-level data from Texas and Wisconsin...

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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs

Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China

de la Rupelle, Maëlys; Quheng, Deng; Shi, Li; … - 2009

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...

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Is the informal sector constrained from the demand side? Evidence for six West African capitals

Böhme, Marcus; Thiele, Rainer - 2011

Employing a unique dataset that covers households from six West African capitals, this paper provides new evidence on the demand for informal sector products and services. We first investigate whether demand linkages exist between formal and informal products and distribution channels, and...

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Corruption and the shadow economy: An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2006

and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The … that the shadow economy reduces corruption in high income countries, but increases corruption in low income countries. We …

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Forecasting aggregate demand in West African economies: The influence of immigrant remittance flows and of asymmetric error correction

Jumah, Adusei; Kunst, Robert M. - 2005

In a panel of West African countries, we investigate whether data on immigrant remittance flows can be used to improve on predictive accuracy of aggregate demand in a systematic way. The results of the prediction experiments are compared to traditional significance tests of asymmetric error...

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