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We assess empirically whether foreign official development assistance (ODA) has been effective in alleviating HIV/AIDS epidemics, which figures prominently among the Millennium Development Goals. We employ a difference-in-difference-in-differences approach to identify the treatment effect of ODA...
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In many poor countries with high emigration rates elderly people are left behind without care when their children migrate. Without a functioning market in private care migrants face a difficult trade-off between working their way out of poverty and providing informal care once their parents...
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Based on a standard idea-based model of endogenous growth we test the hypothesis that regional innovative activity is path-dependent, and investigate the geographical scope of knowledge spillovers. Using data for West-German regions, two alternative indicators of the stock of knowledge are...
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This study examines how the effect of entrepreneurship education on students' entrepreneurial intentions is (1 …) contingent on the mode of education (active, e.g. business plan seminar, vs reflective, e.g. theory lectures), (2) contingent on … show that active modes of entrepreneurship education directly increase intentions and attitudes, whereas the impact of …
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the financial system. Estimation results show that the financial depth of a region has a significantly positive effect on …
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supply of religion declines once churches lose control over the institutions providing collective goods like education … Survey. Our measure of religiosity is negatively correlated with per capita income. Development apparently causes religiosity … to fall to about half its pre-modern level. Most components of the demand for religion are reduced by development. The …
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We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms … single-sector perspective pays special attention to the role of income effects and shows that bad institutions in one country …
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and matching unemployment. We show that trend growth in itself does not generate a trade-off for the monetary authority …
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The standard search model of unemployment predicts, under plausible assumptions about household preferences, that … disembodied technological progress leads to higher unemployment. This prediction is at odds with the experience of industrialized … model's prediction. In the presence of nominal price rigidity faster growth is shown to lead to lower unemployment if the …
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The difference between the potential net wage income and the social welfare payments is measured for different types of … (explicit and implicit) marginal tax rates for wage income of the recipients of social assistance are extremely high (up to 100 … impeded by the system of social assistance. As a consequence, unemployment increased. …
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