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This paper is dedicated to the relation between market development and democracy. We distinguish contexts and preferences and ask whether it is true that the demand for democracy only emerges after a certain degree of market development is reached, and whether, conversely, democratization is...
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L'Ukraine et la Biélorussie ont été touchées par la crise financière internationale depuis l'automne 2008. Ces deux économies en transition sont relativement proches en termes de structure productive, mais l'Ukraine est plus ouverte financièrement. Une première analyse suggère pourtant...
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This paper presents a quarterly macro econometric model of the Kazakhstan. The main goal is to provide a stylized representation of the Kazakh economy in order to simulate the consequences of several economic policies viewed by the authorities as essential during the period of transition to a...
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We show that it is possible to reconcile the utilitarian and welfarist principles under the requirement of unanimity provided that the set of profiles over which the consensus is attained is rich enough. More precisely, we identify a closedness condition which, if satisfied by a class of...
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intergenerational linkages contribute to current inequality? We address these questions using original survey data on Senegal that … inequality, though they have important effects on sector of activity. Inheritance of non-land assets and the education and … than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable …
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The spectacularly early decline of French fertility is one of the great puzzles of economic history. There are no convincing explanations for why France entered a fertility transition over a century before anywhere else in the world. This analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility...
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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Measuring individual preferences of savers have two main motivations: to reduce the share of non-observed heterogeneity in explaining households' wealth behaviors, and to construct more accurate tests of the theories of savings and portfolio choices. For France, we have constructed a unique data...
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
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Traditional indices of bi-dimensional inequality and polarization were developed for cardinal variables and cannot be … the measurement of inequality and bi-polarization using only ordinal information. An empirical illustration is given for …
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