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Kandpal, Eeshani; Baylis, Kathy; Arends-Kuenning, Mary P. - 2012

This paper shows that participation in a community-level female empowerment program in India significantly increases participants' physical mobility, political participation, and access to employment. The program provides support groups, literacy camps, adult education classes, and vocational...

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Tying your enemy's hands in close races : the politics of federal transfers in Brazil

Brollo, Fernanda; Nannicini, Tommaso - 2011

This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...

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Does violent crime deter physical activity?

Janke, Katharina; Propper, Carol; Shields, Michael - 2013

Crime has been argued to have important externalities. We investigate the relationship between violent crime and an important type of behaviour: individuals' participation in their local area through walking and physical activity. We use a sample of nearly 1 million people residing in over 320...

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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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The use of welfare by migrants in Italy

Pellizzari, Michele - 2011

A large part of the Italian welfare system is designed and implemented at the very local level, leading to a high degree of heterogeneity in the type and the generosity of available programs across the country. As a consequence, studies of welfare use based on standard household surveys may fail...

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The impact of social capital on crime : evidence from the Netherlands

Akçomak, I. Semih (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the relation between social capital and crime. The analysis contributes to explaining why crime is so heterogeneous across space. By employing current and historical data for Dutch municipalities and by providing novel indicators to measure social capital, we find a link...

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Economic growth in Canada and the United States : supply-push or demand-pull?

Tang, Jianmin; Wang, Weimin - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 61 (2015) 4, pp. 773-798

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Prices and supply disruptions during natural disasters

Cavallo, Alberto; Cavallo, Eduardo A.; Rigobón, Roberto - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 60 (2014), pp. 449-472

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Supply theory sans profit-maximization

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

We utilize the analytical construct of a stochastic supply function to provide an aggregate representation of a finite … collection of standard deterministic supply functions. We introduce a consistency postulate for a stochastic supply function that … may be satisfied even if no underlying deterministic supply function is rationalizable in terms of profit maximization …

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Access to banking services and poverty reduction : a state-wise assessment in India

Bhandari, Amit Kumar - 2009

Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the poorest sections of society. In India, financial inclusion emphasizes to include maximum number of people under formal financial systems. The most important part of financial...

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