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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001
proposals call for safe-deposit boxes and for matched savings accounts for health care or education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062414
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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World
Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005
effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412981
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The Long Walk to School: International education goals in historical perspective
Clemens, Michael A. - EconWPA - 2004
nevertheless adopted a litany of utopian international goals for universal school enrollment and gender parity in education based … mountain of empirical evidence now shows, economic conditions and slowly-changing parental education levels determine children …'s school enrollment to a greater degree than education policy interventions. A succession of international meetings has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407681
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Who Are Schooled in Urban Pakistan?
Khan, Rana Ejaz Ali; Ali, Karamat - EconWPA - 2005
Pakistan is severely disadvantaged by its failure to achieve higher levels of human development. Low enrolment thirty years ago is reflected in the lower educational level of today’s labor force, lower productivity and lower adaptation of technology. Even today less than half of the school-age...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561544
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Subgame perfect manipulation of children by overlapping generations of agents with two-sided altruism and endogenous fertility
Raut, Lakshmi K. - EconWPA - 1996
In this paper we consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and two-sided altruism and show the limitations of applying commonly used open loop Nash equilibrium in characterizing equilibrium transfers from parents to children in the form of bequest, and transfers from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076531
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Testing for Utility Interdependence in Marriage: Evidence from Panel Data
Powdthavee, Nattavudh - EconWPA - 2004
This paper is the first of its kind to study utility interdependence in marriage using information on subjective well-being of a large sample of people living in the UK over the period 1991-2001. Using “residual” self-rated health to provide instrument for spouse’s well-being and allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076542
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Wealth Trasfer Taxation: A Survey
Cremer, Helmuth; Pestieau, Pierre - EconWPA - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to survey the theoretical literature on wealth transfer taxation. The focus is normative: we are looking at the design of an optimal tax structure from the standpoint of both equity and efficiency. The gist of this survey is that the optimal design closely depends on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076621
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Social norms and human cooperation
Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
The existence of social norms is one of the big unsolved problems in social cognitive science. Although no other concept is invoked more frequently in the social sciences, we still know little about how social norms are formed, the forces determining their content, and the cognitive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076756
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076936
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Efficiency-Enhancing Signalling in the Samaritan's Dilemma
Lagerlof, Johan - EconWPA - 2002
Suppose an altruistic person, A, is willing to transfer resources to a second person, B, if B comes upon hard times. If B anticipates that A will act in this manner, B will save too little from both agents' point of view. This is the Samaritan's dilemma. The logic of the dilemma has been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005077070