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The range of local public services and population size: Is there a “zoo effect” in French jurisdictions?
FRÈRE, Quentin; HAMMADOU, Hakim; PATY, Sonia - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
This article contributes to the small literature on the relationship between the range of local public services and population size. Using new data on French local jurisdictions, we test the hypothesis that larger jurisdictions provide a broader range of public goods (the so-called “zoo...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074989
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Economic Growth
CROIX, David de la - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
Abstract: The first challenge for economic growth theory is to understand the transition from stagnation to growth at the time of the Industrial Revolution and in particular to identify the main factor(s) that triggered the take-off. Doing so also helps to understand why there are poor and rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961076
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Ecological Barriers and Convergence: a Note on Geometry in Spatial Growth Models
FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
conditions that guarantee, in the long run, the convergence of the detrended capital across locations and those inducing spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779580
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La spécialisation des activités technologiques des régions européennes : une approche empirique de la convergence
Ouardighi, Jalal El - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
convergence technologique et étudie comment la croissance économique affecte la spécialisation des régions. Les résultats d …'estimation montrent (i) une convergence (dé-spécialisation) des activités technologiques régionales. Les vitesses de dé … comme des facteurs de décélération de la vitesse de convergence technologique, (iii) l'effet de la croissance économique sur …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985478
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Childcare and Commitment within Households
GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
Parental time with children increases with the education of both the mother and the father. As the education of parents increases, the gap between childcare supplied by mothers relative to that supplied by fathers decreases. A two steps semi-cooperative marital decision model is proposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691322
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Politique éducative et marché du travail en Afrique du Sud. Une analyse en EGC
Maisonnnave, Hélène; Decaluwé, Benard - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
Cet article analyse l'impact d'une augmentation des dépenses publiques en éducation sur la performance du système éducatif sud africain et ses conséquences sur le marché du travail en utilisant un Modèle d'Équilibre Général Calculable (MEGC) en dynamique séquentielle. Le système...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074975
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Informality and long-run growth
DOCQUIER, Frédéric; MÜLLER, Tobias; NAVAL, Joaquín - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
-skilled workers from extreme poverty in the short-run, it prevents income convergence between developed and developing nations in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075062
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DINKs, DEWKs & Co. Marriage, Fertility and Childlessness in the United States
BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012
Among possible lifestyles, the DINKs (“double income no kids”) are couples choosing to be childless, while the DEWKs (“dually employed with kids”) are couples with children. We develop a theory of marriage and parenthood decisions, where we distinguish the choice to have children from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075077
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Development Policies when Accounting for the Extensive Margin of Fertility
BAUDIN, Thomas; CROIX, David de la; GOBBI, Paula - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015
Beyond natural sterility, there are two main types of childlessness: one driven by poverty and another by the high opportunity cost to child-rearing. We argue that taking childlessness and its causes into account matters for assessing the impact of development policies on fertility. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265925
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Religions, Fertility and Growth in South-East Asia
Croix, David de la; Delavallade, Clara - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2015
Through indirect inference, we investigate the extent to which religions’supposed pronatalism is detrimental to growth via the fertility/education channel. Using censuses from South-East Asia, we first estimate an empirical model of fertility and show that having a religious affiliation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265929