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Early Life Circumstance and Mental Health in Ghana

Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We study the origins of adult mental health using early life income fluctuations. Combining a time series of real …

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Early Life Circumstance and Adult Mental Health

Fenske, James; Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Nyshadham, Anant - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

We show that psychological well-being in adulthood varies substantially with circumstance in early life. Combining a time series of real producer prices of cocoa with a nationally representative household survey in Ghana, we find that a one standard deviation rise in the cocoa price in early...

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The role of income in money demand during hyper-inflation: the case of Yugoslavia

Nielsen, Bent; Mladenovic, Zorica - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009

-inflation variables such as real income has been given a somewhat passive role, either assuming it exogenous or to have a negligible role … extreme Yugoslavian episode to investigate the role of income. The analysis suggests that even in extreme hyper-inflation the … monetary variables and real income are simultaneously determined. The methodology enables a description of the short term …

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PUBLIC EXPENDITURES GROWTH IN GREECE AND PORTUGAL: WAGNER'S LAW AND BEYOND.

COURAKIS, S.; MOURA-ROQUE, F.; TRIDIMAS, G. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1990

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The Causes and Consequences of Changing Income Inequality: W(h)ither the Debate?

Blanchflower, D.; Slaughter, M. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1998

The paper attempts to synthesize the research to date on the contribution of international trade to rising income … contributed only A RELATIVELY SMALL SHARE OF RISING US INCOME INEQUALITY ACROSS SKILL GROUPS. …

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Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China.

Knight, J.; Shi, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1996

We have posed an interesting and possibly original question: Why are Chinese villages that are so close together geographically so far apart economically? We have developed an answer in terms of factor immobiblities and processes of cumulative causation. Our results are not conclusive: Sharper...

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A Note on Leisure Inequality in the US: 1965-2003

Sanz, Almudena Sevilla; Nadal, Jose Ignacio GImenez - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

consistent with a model of quality-quantity of leisure, where individuals substitute quality for quantity as their income rises. …

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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality.

Knight, J.; Shi, L.; Renwei, Z. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1999

for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each …

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The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China.

Knight, J.; Shi, L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1991

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Optimal Income Support Targeting.

De Watchter, S.; Galiani, S. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2000

This paper considers the practical problem of distributing a fixed budget for poverty alleviation to a population whose poverty status is not directly observable. Some information on the relationship between poverty status and a number of observable and verifiable characteristics is assumed to...

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