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Environmental pollution and policies in China's Township and Village Industrial Enterprises

Taketoshi, Kazuki - 2001

The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyze economic and policy factors affecting pollution by Township and …. With the rapid growth of TVIEs since the early 1980s, pollution has been spreading into the rural areas. The large number …. The econometric analyses with the provincial data of National Survey of Pollution by TVIEs (NSPT) show that COD (Chemical …

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Environmental and food safety standards in the context of trade liberalization: Issues and options

Grote, Ulrike; Kirchhoff, Stefanie - 2001

The current debate on trade liberalization is accompanied by an increased concern about environmental and food safety issues leading to frictions of different country groups under the World Trade Organization (WTO). This discussion paper aims at shedding more light on some of the issues in the...

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On export rivalry and the greening of agriculture: The role of eco-labels

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Grote, Ulrike - 2003

Why do some countries establish their own national eco-labeling programs and some do not? In this paper, we provide both theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggesting that the answer to this question can shed new light on three questions that have taken center-stage in the trade and...

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Towards a Theory of Self-Segregation as a Response to Relative Deprivation : Steady-State Outcomes and Social Welfare

Stark, Oded - 2018

We model group formation as a response to relative deprivation. We employ two measures of relative deprivation. We show that in the case of each of these measures the process of deprivation-induced self-selection into groups reaches a steady state, and that the steady-state distribution differs...

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Status Aspirations, Wealth Inequality, and Economic Growth

Stark, Oded - 2018

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population's wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

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Menopause as a Regulatory Device for Matching the Demand for Children with Its Supply : A Hypothesis

Stark, Oded - 2021

Drawing on two assumptions: that menopause is an instrument for the efficient regulation of the duration of a biologically expensive state, and that people have children in order to obtain support from them in old age, we set out a new idea that seeks to explain both the occurrence of menopause...

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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen’s Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2021

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen’s 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from social-psychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...

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Shadow Pricing Market Access : A Trade Benefit Function Approach

Chau, Nancy H. - 2008

Appropriate assessment of the social value of market access is at the core of a broad range of inquiries in trade research. A selection include: the appraisal of industry-level production and consumption distortions due to selective trade liberalization and partial tax reform; the construction...

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The demand for gratitude as a restraint on the use of child labor : A hypothesis

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor - 2022

We study a parent’s demand for gratitude from his child. We view this demand as an intervening variable between the parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive care and support from his child late in life, while...

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On The Optimal Size of A Joint Savings Association

Stark, Oded; Budziński, Wiktor; Jakubek, Marcin; … - 2022

We develop a formula for the optimal size of a joint savings association between individuals who share the same financial goal and who can save towards that goal at the same rate. Our motivating example and the core of our analysis is a Rotating Savings and Credit Association (ROSCA). We measure...

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