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Identifying the Effects of Food Stamps on Child Health Outcomes When Participation is Endogenous and Misreported

Kreider, Brent; Pepper, John; Gundersen, Craig; … - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2009

The literature assessing the efficacy of the Food Stamp Program, now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance … Program (SNAP), has long puzzled over positive associations between food stamp receipt and various undesirable health outcomes … such as food insecurity. Assessing the impact of food stamps on outcomes is made difficult by endogenous selection into …

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Partially Identifying the Prevalence of Health InsuranceGiven Contaminated Sampling Response Error

Kreider, Brent - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2006

This paper derives simple closed-form identication regions for the U.S. nonelderlypopulation's prevalence of health insurance coverage in the presence of household reporting errors.The methods extend Horowitz and Manski's (1995) nonparametric analysis of contaminated samplesfor the case that...

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Harbingers of Dissolution? Grain Prices, Borders and Nationalism In the Hapsburg Economy Before the First World War

Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

This paper explores the pre-First World War Austro-Hungarian economy as a prominent case where growing conflict between various ethnic and national groups within an empire might have contributed to the emergence of internal borders and even its eventual dissolution. To this end we adopt an...

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The Limits of Social Democracy?

Clark, Tom - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

This paper is a revised version of an Economic History thesis submitted to the London School of Economics in September 2000.The main text assumes analytical rather than chronological form, and, to avoid breaking the flow of the argument, it refers to persons, Labour Party structures and...

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Constraint and opportunity: Identifying voluntary nonemployment

Burchardt, Tania; Le Grand, Julian - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

Given the emphasis in recent welfare economics, political philosophy andsocial policy on the concept of opportunity, the need to find a way ofdifferentiating between outcomes that are the result of choice and outcomesthat are the results of constraint has become pressing. But all approaches...

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FIRMS’ BOUNDARIES AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR: EMPIRICAL STRATEGIES

Garicano, Luis; Hubbard, Thomas N. - University <Chicago, Ill.> / Department of Economics - 2003

A large theoretical literature focuses on the question: What determines firms’ boundaries?Recently, Garicano and Santos and Holmstrom and Milgrom have proposed theories in whichfirms’ boundaries reflect the division of labor across individuals. This paper discussesstrategies for generating...

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Explaining Organisational Boundaries with Complexity and Dynamics

Richter, Christian; Lindstädt, Hagen - Institut für Angewandte Betriebswirtschaftslehre, … - 2004

This paper extends D’Aveni’s hypercompetition concept based on the core competencies’ approachby means of the addition of an institutional economic explanation. In this process it is demonstratedthat the hypercompetitive conduct of economic protagonists in addition to the core...

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CREDIT AND GROWTH UNDER LIMITED COMMITMENT

AZARIADIS, COSTAS; Kaas, Leo - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

We consider a linear growth model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks in whichproducers cannot commit to repay their loans. Borrowing constraints are determinedendogenously by the borrowers’ incentives to repay, assuming that defaulters lose a shareof output and are excluded from future...

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Family Income and Tertiary Education Attendance acrossthe EU: An empirical assessment using sibling data

Vandenberghe, Vincent - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

There is plenty of evidence across the EU to suggest that young people from poorerbackgrounds are less likely to attend tertiary education than their better-off peers. Thiscorrelation is often used to justify monetary transfers to families with students. It isnot clear, however, that these...

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African Americans Pursuit of Self-Employment

Lofstrom, Magnus; Bates, Timothy - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This study examines causes of black/white gaps in business ownership and self-employmentrates by analyzing small-business entry and exit patterns. We proceed by recognizingheterogeneity in business ownership across different industry groups: a classification of firmsby human- and...

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