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作者：Zivin, Joshua Graff; Thirumurthy, Harsha; Goldstein, Markus
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：The provision of antiretroviral medications is a central component of the response to HIV/AlDS and consumes substantial public resources from around the world, but little is known about this intervention's impact on the welfare of children in treated persons' households. Using longitudinal survey data from Kenya, we examine the relationship between the provision of treatment to adults and the schooling and nutrition outcomes of children in their households. Weekly hours of school attendance in...
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作者：Moriconi, Simone; Sato, Yasuhiro
作者单位：University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Osaka
摘要：In this paper, we evaluate the impact of commodity tax competition on welfare and employment under the destination and origin principles, when the labor market is imperfectly competitive owing to a binding fixed wage. Our main finding is that commodity taxation causes an employment externality whose signs may be opposite under the two principles. While tax competition leads to inefficient tax rates under both principles, we also prove that the origin principle guarantees lower unemployment and...
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作者：Ruta, Michele
作者单位：World Trade Organization
摘要：This paper studies the political economy of growth in an economic union such as the EU. In the spirit of Acemoglu, Aghion and Zilibotti [Acemoglu, D., Aghion, P. and Zilibotti, F., 2006a, Distance to frontier, selection and economic growth,journal of the European Economic Association, 4:1, 37-74; Acemoglu, D., Aghion, R, and Zilibotti, F, 2006b, Growth, development and appropriate versus inappropriate institutions, mimeo MITI, as the economy approaches the world technology frontier, structural...
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作者：Takii, Katsuya; Tanaka, Ryuichi
作者单位：University of Osaka; Institute of Science Tokyo; Tokyo Institute of Technology
摘要：This paper examines how different education systems affect GDP by influencing the diversity of human capital. We construct an overlapping generation model in which agents are heterogeneous in income and innate ability, and the final goods are produced with differentiated intermediate goods. It is shown that under a realistic condition, the diversity of human capital induced by income inequality always lowers the GDP of the next period, while the diversity of human capital induced by heterogene...
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作者：Kochar, Anjini; Singh, Kesar; Singh, Sukhwinder
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：While local governments are increasingly being vested with control over funds for public goods, concern over the capture of decentralized funds by local elites has led decentralization to be combined with central mandates which require a certain proportion of funds to directly benefit the poor. If local capture is pervasive, however, central mandates may not be effective. Despite the popularity of this combination of decentralization and centralized control, there is little empirical evidence ...
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作者：Cameron, Lisa; Chaudhuri, Ananish; Erkal, Nisvan; Gangadharan, Lata
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Auckland
摘要：This paper examines cultural differences in individual decision-making in a corruption game. We define culture as an individual's accumulated experience, shaped by the social, institutional, and economic aspects of the environment in which the individual lives. Based on experiments run in Australia (Melbourne), India (Delhi), Indonesia (Jakarta) and Singapore, we find that there is a greater variation in the propensities to punish corrupt behavior than in the propensities to engage in corrupt ...
