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Angrist, Noam; Djankov, Simeon; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; … - 2019

Students around the world are going to school but are not learning-an emerging gap in human capital formation. To … understand this gap, this paper introduces a new data set measuring learning in 164 countries and territories. The data cover 98 … worldwide, learning has stagnated; (b) girls outperform boys on learning-a positive gender gap-in contrast to a negative gender …

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Knowledge, Technology and Economic Growth: an OECD Perspective.

Visco, I. - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2000

In this paper we draw upon a recent body of evidence, with particular reference to material produced in the context of an ongoing OECD project on growth. We present an international comparison with special attention given to development in trends of labour productivity, allowing for human...

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Dynamic Comparative Advantage and the Welfare Effects of Trade

Redding, S. - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 1997

This paper argues that developing economies may face a trade-off between specializaing according to existing comparative advantage (in low-technology goods), and entering sectors in which they currently lack a comparative advantage, but may acquire such an advantage in the future as a result of...

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The Pure Ricardian Theory of Privatization.

Saint-Paul, G. - Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique … - 1995

In this paper, we analyse the macroeconomic impact of large scale privatization from the point of view of the neo …

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Proprietes d'equivalence des differents modes de financement des retraites.

Belan, P - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 1997

We consider an overlapping generations model with endogenous labor supply. Individuals live for two periods and have different skills. We state equivalence properties of different transfer policies, assuming the government cannot identify individuals and has a limited range of instruments that...

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Privatisation massive, finances publiques et macroéconomie : le cas de l'Argentine et du Chili.

Larrain R, G.; Winograd, C. D. - Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique … - 1996

L'analyse des effets de la privatisation porte généralement sur des aspects microéconomiques. Néanmoins, lorsque la privatisation est massive, l'évaluation de l'impact macroéconomique présente un grand intérêt. Dans un environnment de crise économique chronique, la privatisation peut...

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Reform from Within.

Tornell, A. - Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID), … - 1998

We present a model of endogenous institutional change that rationalizes reforms that have taken place in the context of economic crisis and drastic political change. Most of these reforms have been initiated by powerholders, even though they have ended worse-off relative to the status quo. The...

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Status Effects and Neganive Utility Growth.

Cooper, B.; Garcia-Penalosa, C. - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 1998

This paper explains the observed stagnation of 'Happiness' measures in the post-war period through a growth model in which agents care about conspicuous consumption.

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Economic Growth, (Re-)Distributive Policies, Capital Mobility and Tax Competition in Open Economies

Rehme, G. - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 1997

This paper investigates the trade-off between growth and distribution in open economies. In closed economies redistribution seems to reduce growth. I show that in open economies tax competition leads redistributing (left-wing) governments to mimic 'right-wing' policies if capital mobility is...

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