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作者：Goetghebuer, Tatiana; Platteau, Jean-Philippe
作者单位：University of Namur
摘要：On the basis of detailed information on inheritance practices collected in the course of an in-depth survey of three Andean communities of Peru, and unlike most empirical studies which rely on remittance functions, we have been able to estimate an inheritance function with a view to identifying the main factors associated with particular patterns of land bequests. A central result is that the positive relationship between caring and a favourable access to land bequest indeed exists, yet is onl...
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作者：Dinopoulos, Elias; Segerstrom, Paul
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：This paper develops a model of North-South trade with Multinational firms and economic growth in order to analyze formally the effects of stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in developing countries. In the model, Northern firms invent new higher-quality products, multinational firms transfer manufacturing operations to the South and the Southern firms imitate products produced by multinational firms. It is shown that stronger IPR protection in the South (i.e., the adoption a...
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作者：Vicente, Pedro C.
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; University of Oxford
摘要：This paper explores the oil discovery announcements in Sao Tome and Principe (1997-1999) to assess the role of natural resources in determining corruption. For this purpose, we use a natural experiment framework which contrasts Sao Tome and Principe to Cape Verde, a control West African country sharing the same colonial past and important recent economic and political shocks. Our measurement is based on tailored household surveys we conducted in both island countries. The unique survey instrum...
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作者：Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Aizenman, Joshua
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper studies the impact of aid volatility in a two-period model where production may occur with either a traditional or a modern technology. Public spending is productive and time to build requires expenditure in both periods for the modern technology to be used. The possibility of a poverty trap induced by high aid volatility is first examined in a benchmark case where taxation is absent. The analysis is then extended to account for self insurance (taking the form of a first-period cont...
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作者：Feltenstein, Andrew; Rochon, Celine; Shamloo, Maral
作者单位：National Science Foundation (NSF); University of Oxford; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：This paper analyzes certain policies that are typical of a number of rapidly growing East Asian countries in which a fixed exchange rate, combined with a surplus labor market, has made domestic assets relatively inexpensive, generating high rates of FDI as well as domestic capital formation. This investment hunger can lead to unanticipated declines in the returns to investment, and resulting financial insolvencies. Private consumption remains low and there are concerns that high savings rates ...
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作者：Sugimoto, Yoshiaki; Nakagawa, Masao
作者单位：Kagawa University; University of Osaka
摘要：This paper argues that the introduction of compulsory schooling in early industrialization promoted the growth process that eventually led to a vicious cycle of population aging and negative pressure on education policy. In the early phases of industrialization, public education was undesirable for the young poor who relied on child labor. Compulsory schooling therefore discouraged childbirth, while the accompanying industrialization stimulated their demand for education. The subsequent rise i...
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作者：Ulyssea, Gabriel
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：This paper develops a two-sector matching model that incorporates the main features of Latin American labor markets. It has an innovation in its matching structure that makes it more consistent with some key stylized facts of the informal sector in these countries. The model is numerically solved using Brazilian data and several policy simulations are performed. Reducing formal sector's entry cost significantly reduces the size of the informal sector and improves overall labor market performan...
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作者：Fally, Thibault; Paillacar, Rodrigo; Terra, Cristina
作者单位：heSam Universite; Universite Pantheon-Sorbonne; Paris School of Economics; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：This paper estimates the impact of market and supplier access on wage disparities across Brazilian states, incorporating the control for individual characteristics into the new economic geography methodology. We estimate market and supplier access disaggregated by industry, and we compute access to local, national and international markets separately. We find a strong correlation between market access and wage differentials, even after controlling for individual characteristics, market access ...
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作者：Drugov, Mikhail
作者单位：University of Oxford; University of Oxford
摘要：This paper studies the consequences of introducing competition between bureaucrats. Firms are supposed to invest into eliminating negative externalities of production, while bureaucrats administer the process by issuing licences. Some bureaucrats are corrupt, that is, they issue a licence to any firm in exchange for a bribe. The competition regime is found to create more ex ante incentives for firms to invest, while the monopoly regime is better at implementing ex post allocation, that is, dis...
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作者：Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Mazzolari, Francesca
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; California State University System; San Diego State University
摘要：The magnitude of remittance flows to Latin America exceeds the combined inflows of foreign direct investment and official development assistance to the region. Since the United States is the destination country of the vast majority of migrants from Mexico, as well as from other Latin American countries, U.S. immigration policy can have a significant impact on the volume of remittances to the Latin American region. This paper studies how a generalized amnesty - a provision in the 1986 Immigrati...
