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Economic Shocks, Wealth, and Welfare [PDF]

Journal of Human Resources, 2003
The immediate effects of the Asian crisis on the well-being of Indonesians are examined using the Indonesia Family Life Survey, an on-going longitudinal household survey. There is tremendous diversity in the effect of the shock: for some households, it was devastating; for others it brought new opportunities.
Frankenberg, Elizabeth, Smith, James P., Thomas, Duncan   +2 more
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Impact of NAFTA on U.S. and Mexican Sugar Markets

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2015
When NAFTA became fully implemented for sugar in 2008, Mexico became the leading sugar exporter into the United States, accounting for nearly 70% of U.S. imports in 2013.
Troy G. Schmitz, Karen E. Lewis
doaj   +1 more source

The social value of science shops: A cost-benefit analysis

Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2012
We describe and apply a method to determine the net social benefits of science shops. University departments operating as science shops coordinate research projects for individuals or civil society organizations (CSO) lacking the financial means to turn ...
Esther Boere, Wim Heijman
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On the integration of Shapley-Scarf housing markets [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
We study the welfare consequences of merging Shapley--Scarf markets. Market integration can lead to large welfare losses and make the vast majority of agents worse-off, but is on average welfare-enhancing and makes all agents better off ex-ante. The number of agents harmed by integration is a minority when all markets are small or agents' preferences ...
arxiv  

Taxes and Externalities in the Nelson-Phelps Model with Heterogenity

Gospodarka Narodowa. The Polish Journal of Economics, 2020
This paper aims to answer the question of whether it is economically profitable for net taxpayers to introduce public education financed by consumption or income tax in a situation where it is impossible to finance public education with a flat-rate tax ...
Paweł Pietraszko
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Counterfactual and Welfare Analysis with an Approximate Model [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
We propose a conceptual framework for counterfactual and welfare analysis for approximate models. Our key assumption is that model approximation error is the same magnitude at new choices as the observed data. Applying the framework to quasilinear utility, we obtain bounds on quantities at new prices using an approximate law of demand.
arxiv  

Towards a Dynamic (Schumpeterian) Welfare Economics [PDF]

For an economy where knowledge plays an increasingly important role in shaping its dynamics, economics needs a dynamic (Schumpeterian) welfare theory.
Dolfsma, W.A.
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Alternative policy imagination for anti-toxic Indian development [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy
Worsening joblessness in India is put forward here from the multiple and inter-connected argumentative lens of formal-informal dichotomy by labour productivity differential, market size constraint, labour market flexibility, capital inflows, political ...
AMIT BHADURI
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Introduction to social choice and welfare [PDF]

Social choice theory is concerned with the evaluation of alternative methods of collective decision-making, as well as with the logical foundations of welfare economics.
Kotaro Suzumura
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Agriculture and national welfare around the world: causality and international heterogeneity since 1960 [PDF]

Calculations of marginal welfare effects suggest that agricultural development has had important positive effects on national welfare, especially in developing countries. Latin American and Caribbean countries have also benefited from agricultural growth,
Bravo-Ortega, Claudio, Lederman, Daniel
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