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3A183165475X.jsonld | Chapter 64. Monetary and Exchange Rate Policies | To the extent that they exert a critical influence on the macroeconomic environment, monetary and exchange rate policies (MERP) are relevant for development. However, the analytical economic literature often sees nominal variables as being irrelevant for the real economy, while the multiplicity of channels examined by ... | [
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3A183163922X.jsonld | Chapter 1 Social justice and the distribution of income | This chapter reviews the bearing of theories of social justice on the analysis and evaluation of income distribution and related features of economic inequality. The assessment of income distribution involves both descriptive and prescriptive issues and the ideas of the way social justice influence both. The connection... | [
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3A1831646773.jsonld | Chapter 64 Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization | This chapter explains the logic of structural econometric models and compares them to other types of econometric models. We provide a framework researchers can use to develop and evaluate structural econometric models. This framework pays particular attention to describing different sources of unobservables in structur... | [
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3A1831641003.jsonld | Chapter 22 Social Dynamics: TheorY AND Applications | Agent-based models typically involve large numbers of interacting individuals with widely differing characteristics, rules of behavior, and sources of information. The dynamics of such systems can be extremely complex due to their high dimensionality. This chapter discusses a general method for rigorously analyzing the... | [
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3A1831651300.jsonld | Chapter 14. Media Ownership: Diversity Versus Efficiency in a Changing Technological Environment | The role of media – whether television, newspapers, radio, or the Internet – in supplying the ideas that shape our viewpoints and cultures is such that the dangers that may accompany concentrations of ownership in this sector are well recognized. Ownership patterns affect not only pluralism, but also how well the media... | [
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3A1831642662.jsonld | Chapter 20 Industrial organization and international trade | The monopolistic competition model of trade began with an empirical observation. The most influential of trade models is the HeckscherOhlinSamuelson model, which tells that trade reflects an interaction between the characteristics of countries and the characteristics of the production technology of different goods. Spe... | [
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3A183163600X.jsonld | Chapter 5. The farmer's climate change adaptation challenge in least developed countries | Climate change poses many new risks to people in the developing world. Unlike in standard choice under uncertainty problems, the risks from climate change are both ambiguous and non-stationary. We examine climate projections concerning what scenarios are most likely to unfold. We explore how individual farmers in the d... | [
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3A1831653818.jsonld | Index | This chapter lists the terms that have contributed to the book Handbook of Economics in Education , such as accountability, achievement gap, adoption, and others. For the ease of the reader, these terms have been mentioned along with the page numbers in which they have appeared in the book. | [
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3A1831640198.jsonld | Chapter 2 A survey of theories of the family | This chapter provides an overview of the theories of the family, and discusses the household technology and utility possibility frontiers, decision-making in the family, theories of the marriage and household membership, and interdependent preferences within families. An important conceptual building block for economic... | [
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3A1831651122.jsonld | Chapter 4. Trade Theory with Numbers: Quantifying the Consequences of Globalization | We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic considerations—market structure, firm... | [
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3A72999578X.jsonld | Personal Transport Choice | There are basically four means by which to reduce the negative environmental consequences of personal transport: by replacing personal vehicles with more environmentally-friendly ones; by replacing car journeys with public transport, walking or cycling and by car-sharing rather than solo driving; by making fewer journe... | [
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3A183164424X.jsonld | Subject index | This chapter highlights the terms and methods that have been used and explained in this publication titled Handbook of Labor Economics, volume 3B. The chapter also highlights the page numbers where these have been used. | [
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3A1831634414.jsonld | Chapter 10 Education and Nonmarket Outcomes | This chapter explores the effects of education on nonmarket outcomes from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. Examples of outcomes considered include general consumption patterns at a moment in time, savings and the rate of growth of consumption over time, own (adult) health and inputs into the production of o... | [
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3A1831651858.jsonld | Chapter 6. Stochastic Evolutionary Game Dynamics | Traditional game theory studies strategic interactions in which the agents make rational decisions. Evolutionary game theory differs in two key respects: the focus is on large populations of individuals who interact at random rather than on small numbers of players; and individuals are assumed to employ simple adaptive... | [
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3A1831635178.jsonld | Chapter 21 The Economics of Books | This chapter analyses the tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses and includes insights from the theory of industrial organisation. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants for authors and pu... | [
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3A1831650231.jsonld | Chapter 21. Cities in Developing Countries : Fueled by Rural–Urban Migration, Lacking in Tenure Security, and Short of Affordable Housing | This chapter surveys and synthesizes existing research on urbanization and housing in developing countries. The goal is to provide a unified overview of the principal urban issues that arise in developing countries, painting a coherent picture that can provide a starting point for policy analysis. The chapter covers em... | [
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3A1831647311.jsonld | Chapter 13 Macroeconomic theory and policy: How the closed economy was opened | This chapter discusses history of international transactions and relationships that were introduced into macroeconomic models and policy in the twenty-five years following the Second World War. Modern models of exchange-rate determination focus sharply on money and bond markets. The chapter discusses the Marshall–Lerne... | [
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3A1831631938.jsonld | Chapter 20 Norms and the Law | Everyone realizes the importance of social norms as guides to behavior and substitutes for law, but coming up with a paradigm for analyzing norms has been surprisingly difficult, as has systematic empirical study. In this chapter we survey the topic. | [
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3A1831649055.jsonld | List of Contributors | This chapter lists the names of the people who have contributed to the book Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare , such as Kenneth Arrow, Amartya Sen, Kaushik Basu, and others. Their names have been mentioned with the chapter number in which they contributed in the book along with their addressfor reference to the rea... | [
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3A1831652064.jsonld | Chapter 10. Selective Out-Migration and the Estimation of Immigrants’ Earnings Profiles | This chapter begins by documenting that temporary migrations are not only very common, but that out-migration of immigrants is selective both in terms of migrants’ individual characteristics and their economic outcomes. We then examine the problems that arise when estimating immigrants’ earnings profiles when out-migra... | [
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3A183165184X.jsonld | Chapter 7. Advances in Auctions | As a selling mechanism, auctions have acquired a central position in the free market economy all over the globe. This development has deepened, broadened, and expanded the theory of auctions in new directions. This chapter is intended as a selective update of some of the developments and applications of auction theory ... | [
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3A1831650223.jsonld | Chapter 22. The Geography of Development Within Countries | This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural–urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural–urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an economy and describe how the patte... | [
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3A183163886X.jsonld | Chapter 32 The measurement of health-related quality of life for use in resource allocation decisions in health care | An important consideration when establishing priorities in health care is the likely effect that alternative allocations will have on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of the relevant population. This chapter considers some of the important issues surrounding the description and valuation of HRQoL. It discusse... | [
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