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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective

Diao, Xinshen - 2017

Growth has accelerated in a wide range of developing countries over the last couple of decades, resulting in an extraordinary period of convergence with the advanced economies. We analyze this experience from the lens of structural change – the reallocation of labor from low- to...

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Trade, Poverty and the Lagging Regions of South Asia

Krishna, Pravin - 2010

This chapter studies the differential effects that trade openness may have on leading and lagging regions within a country. Examining data from India, we find that while trade liberalization is associated with reduced poverty, this effect is smaller in lagging states. The expected transmission...

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Marriage Institutions and Sibling Competition : Evidence from South Asia

Vogl, Tom - 2012

Using data from South Asia, this paper examines how arranged marriage cultivates rivalry among sisters. During marriage search, parents with multiple daughters reduce the reservation quality for an older daughter's groom, rushing her marriage to allow sufficient time to marry off her younger...

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Is There Dowry Inflation in South Asia?

Arunachalam, Raj - 2010

This paper is the first systematic attempt to measure the existence and degree of dowry inflation in South Asia. The popular press and scholarly literature have assumed dowry inflation in South Asia for some time, and there are now a number of theoretical papers that have attempted to explain...

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Missing Unmarried Women

Anderson, Siwan - 2015

That unmarried individuals die at a faster rate than married individuals at all ages is well documented. Unmarried women in developing countries face particularly severe vulnerabilities, so that excess mortality faced by the unmarried is more extreme for women in these regions compared to...

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Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors

Viceira, Luis M. - 2018

This paper conducts a theoretical and empirical investigation of global portfolio diversification for long … risk at long horizons and does not diminish the benefits of global portfolio diversification to long-term investors … volatility shocks. Our findings imply that the benefits of global equity diversification have not declined for long horizon …

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Naïve *Buying* Diversification and Narrow Framing by Individual Investors

Gathergood, John - 2019

portfolio diversification—NPD) or engage in naïve buying diversification (NBD)—equally balancing values in same-day purchases of …

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Diversification and the Taxation of Capital Gains and Losses

Rendleman, Richard J.; Shackelford, Douglas A. - 2021

Current U.S. law nets the total portfolio of realized capital gains and losses to compute capital gains taxes. Prior research, however, typically ignores the implication of this provision, i.e., the marginal tax rate for a specific gain or loss depends on the taxpayer's total portfolio of...

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Market Structure and International Trade : Business Groups in East Asia

Feenstra, Robert C.; Yang, Tzu-han; Hamilton, Gary G. - 2021

In this paper we study the effect of market structure on the trade performance of South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. We center our analysis on Korea and Taiwan, countries which have very different market structures: Korea has many large, vertically-integrated business groups known as chaebol,...

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Measuring the Benefits of Product Variety with an Accurate Variety Set

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Soderbery, Anson - 2021

Recent studies have used import data to assess the impact of foreign varieties on prices and welfare for a home country. The reliance on import data has a number of limitations. First, these papers rely on goods categories defined by the Harmonized System. Second, they define varieties using the...

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