Foreign aid: An instrument for fighting communism?
In: The journal of development studies, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 622-648
ISSN: 1743-9140
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In: The journal of development studies, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 622-648
ISSN: 1743-9140
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 43, Heft 4, S. 622-648
ISSN: 0022-0388
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In: European journal of political economy, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 887-907
ISSN: 1873-5703
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In: Journal of labor economics: JOLE, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 325-365
ISSN: 1537-5307
In: Socio-economic review
ISSN: 1475-147X
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Using Swedish administrative data, this study investigates the link between wealth and sexual orientation across genders, focusing on nearly 4400 individuals who have ever been in a same-sex legal union and their siblings who had been exclusively in different-sex relationships. Employing unconditional quantile regressions and sibling fixed effects, we show that the wealth gap by gender and sexual orientation varies across the wealth distribution. Men in same-sex couples (SSCs) experience a wealth penalty below the 70th percentile but a premium above it. For women, the wealth penalty persists until the 95th percentile. Similar patterns hold for the wealth subcomponents, with men in SSCs holding more financial resources, real estate and debt at the top of the distributions, while women in SSCs hold more financial resources but less real estate and total debt. Additional analysis highlights the positive marginal effects of urban residency and years of schooling on these patterns.
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 43, S. 19-41
In: Journal of economic behavior & organization, Band 84, Heft 3, S. 741-752
ISSN: 1879-1751, 0167-2681
In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 10979
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This paper shows that whether natural resources are good or bad for a country's development depends crucially on the interaction between institutional setting and the type of resources that the country possesses. Some natural resources are for economical and technical reasons more likely to cause problems such as rent-seeking and conflicts than others (termed technically appropriable resources). This potential problem can, however, be countered by good institutional quality (rendering these resources less institutionally appropriable). In contrast to the traditional resource curse hypothesis we show that the impact of natural resources on economic growth is non-monotonic in institutional quality. Mineral rich countries are cursed only if they have low quality institutions, while the curse is reversed if institutions are good enough. Using new data we find that this is even more stark for countries rich in diamonds and precious metals.
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The contributions document how income inequality in the Nordics in various dimensions have increased over recent decades. These developments are put in an international context. Developments in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden are compared. Important aspects analysed in detail are overall inequality of both market and disposable incomes, the redistribution through the tax and transfer system as well as through the provision of government welfare services, the importance of demographic factors, the developments of both relative poverty and top income shares, and gender inequality.
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