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Hackl, Franz; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2009

we combine individual-level data from the European and World Values Survey with macroeconomic and political variables for …

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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …

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Cultures, clashes and peace

Fletcher, Erin; Iyigun, Murat - 2009

Ethnic and religious fractionalization have important effects on economic growth and development, but their role in internal violent conflicts has been found to be negligible and statistically insignificant. These findings have been invoked in refutation of the Huntington hypothesis, according...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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The impact of aid on growth revisited: do donor motives matter?

Kilby, Christopher; Dreher, Axel - 2009

The typical identification strategy in aid effectiveness studies assumes donor motives do not influence the impact of aid on growth. We call this homogeneity assumption into question, first constructing a model in which donor motives matter and then testing the assumption empirically.

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Income tax flattening: does it help to reduce the shadow economy?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2009

This paper examines the effect of global transition to simpler, flatter income tax systems on the size of the shadow economy. By offering a new estimation framework, the paper revives the traditional electricity consumption approach to measuring the shadow economy. It overcomes the limitations...

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Happiness and growth the world over: time series evidence on the happiness-income paradox

Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - 2009

There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...

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Migration and globalization: challenges and perspectives for the research infrastructure

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences …. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration trajectories. To alleviate these difficulties, we suggest: (i …) the international coordination of data collection methodologies and standardization of immigrant identifiers; (ii) a …

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'The' market for higher education: Does it really exist?

Becker, William E.; Round, David K. - 2009

the players and policies in the many distinct domestic and international markets that exist for the inputs and outputs of …

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Entrepreneurial entry: which institutions matter?

Aidis, Ruta; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz - 2009

In this paper we explore the relationship between the individual decision to become an entrepreneur and the institutional context. We pinpoint the critical roles of property rights and the size of the state sector for entrepreneurial activity and test the relationships empirically by combining...

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