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unexpected and unprecedented international economic sanctions on Iran in 2012 and estimate the short-run effects of the change in …
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Despite the remarkable increase in women's education levels and the rapid fall of their fertility rate in Iran, female … force participation in Iran. Policy implications are discussed …
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effects of oil exports are taken into account, the estimates support output growth convergence between Iran and the rest of …, which could be partly due to the relatively underdeveloped nature of Iran's financial markets …
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per capita in oil exporting countries through higher investment activities. This relationship is explored for Iran and the … for Iran, long run equations for GDP and investment per capita are distinguished for the Gulf countries. Both variables … elasticities for the Gulf states exceed their Iranian counterparts. In addition, investment in Iran does not react to oil revenues …
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Iran has the world's only government-regulated kidney market. We report the results of the first field study of donor …
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We propose a novel structural method to empirically identify economies of scale in household consumption. We assume collective households with consumption technologies that define the public and private nature of expenditures through Barten scales. Our method recovers the technology by solely...
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To date, empirical investigations of trade liberalization under the conditions of increasing returns to scale (IRS) and imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model. However, of the recent IRS/IC models used to simulate...
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We apply an extension of the Rothbarth approach to estimate the share of household resources accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children) in Ireland. The method also allows us to identify the economies of scale in the household and indifference scales in Lewbel (2003)'s sense. A practical...
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We propose a new methodology to estimate the share of household income accruing to children (i.e., the cost of children). Following the principle of the Rothbarth approach, the identification of the children's share requires the observation of at least one adult-specific good. However, our...
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Allowing for three labor market settings (perfect competition or right-to-manage bargaining, efficient bargaining and monopsony), this paper relies on an extension of Hall's econometric framework for estimating simultaneously price-cost margins and scale economies. Using an unbalanced panel of...
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