Three Essays In Social Economics
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Three Essays In Social Economics
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Author : Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou
language : en
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Release Date : 2012
Three Essays In Social Economics written by Amin Mohseni-Cheraghlou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Americans categories.
This dissertation is composed of three standalone chapters on social economics, a field of inquiry that examines the multifaceted relationships between social and economic phenomena. The first two chapters are motivated by the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. By employing a cross-country dataset on more than 100 financial crises between 1981 and 2007, the first chapter examines the effects of financial crises on indicators of human and social wellbeing. The finding of this chapter is that financial crises independent of their effect on the real economy can have detrimental impacts on human and social wellbeing. The second chapter uses several econometric models and panel data of the U.S. States between 1979 and 2004 to re-examine the link between labor market conditions and suicide in the case of the United States. Through disaggregating the U.S. population across gender and age categories, this chapter finds that deteriorations in labor market conditions has explanatory power for the suicide rates of only those adults who are between 35 and 64 years of age. The third chapter takes a different approach from the first two, undertaking a qualitative historical analysis of the social and institutional factors that may have contributed to the slowdown and subsequent stagnation of the Medieval Islamic civilization in the century leading to and centuries after the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258. This chapter provides a detailed analysis of the Sufi thought and its emergence during the second half of the Islamic Golden Age (750-1258) and its subsequent triumph in throughout the heartland of Islam in Middle East and Central Asia after the Mongol invasion in 1258. It then puts forth a new hypothesis that the Mongol invasion in addition to destroying the physical capital of this region also helped in altering its religious, intellectual, and legal foundations towards a Sufi orientation, contributing to commercial, intellectual, and legal stagnation of this region.
Three Essays On Social Networks In Economics
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Author : Livia Shkoza
language : en
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Release Date : 2022
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Three Essays On The Economics Of Evaluating Social Programs
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Author : Jeffrey Andrew Smith
language : en
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Release Date : 1996
Three Essays On The Economics Of Evaluating Social Programs written by Jeffrey Andrew Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Economic development projects categories.
Three Essays On Experimental Economics
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Author : Sukanya Chaudhuri
language : en
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Release Date : 2010
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Three Essays In Empirical Public Economics
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language : en
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Release Date : 2014
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This dissertation explores three questions in empirical public economics: we investigate the impact of social networks on labour market outcomes in the first essay; we explore the determinants of volunteering behaviour and estimate the effect of employment on volunteering in the second essay; and we examine the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on public provision in the third essay. In each case, we provide consistent estimates by utilizing an exogenous source of variation in key economic outcomes introduced by randomized policy experiments in the first two essays and by a natural experiment in the third essay. In the first essay, we find that among social networks, weak ties have a significant effect on labour market outcomes but strong ties do not have. In the second essay, we find that employment has a significant effect on volunteering behaviour, and that the effect varies in different contexts and depends on the precise channels through which the two are connected. In the final essay, we find that decentralization has a big effect on public provision. But we also find that decentralization affects different public goods differently, and that the key to its impact lies in the incentives facing politicians at the local level.
Three Essays On The Economics Of Social Integration In An Urban Context
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Author : Lucie Letrouit
language : en
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Release Date : 2020
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This dissertation consists in three essays with complementary approaches on the economics of social integration in an urban setting. The first essay analyzes the emergence of ethno-cultural hierarchies in a multi-cultural context, typical of nowadays large metropolises. This emergence is studied using an evolutionary game theory model according to which, in a society, a common hierarchy view emerges from a multitude of independent interactions between members of the different ethno-cultural groups. The originality of the model lies in the featuring of several minorities and hierarchical views (i.e. multi-group and multi-strategy model) and in the reciprocal effects that minorities may have on each others' social statuses. These effects allow to explain the non-linear relationship between a minority's size and its status suggested by the empirical literature, as well as the complex impacts of a new minority's arrival on the other minorities. The evolutionary process implies that the adopted ethno-cultural hierarchy is, in most cases, too inegalitarian and thus economically inefficient. The second essay presents an urban economics model adapted to the sub-Saharan African city context where land ownership is often informal and uncertain and where land transactions are often hampered by important information asymmetries between buyers and sellers. The model allows to theoretically study the impact of two institutions aimed at reducing transaction uncertainty. The first one consists in a formal land registration system administered by the government, the second is a traditional social trust norm that links specific social groups. This model is, to the best of our knowledge, the first one to study the effects of a social norm on the functioning of an urban housing market and the urban structure. It shows that the land registration system is more efficient than the traditional trust norm if registration costs are limited, but also that the two institutions are partly substitutable. The model predicts that, with the gradual decrease of registration costs, land registration will progressively replace social trust norms in the future.Eventually, the third essay consists in an econometric analysis of a large urban renewal program launched in France in 2003 for the renovation of 600 deprived neighborhoods (i.e. the « Programme National de Rénovation Urbaine », PNRU). In order to avoid possible biases linked with heterogeneities in the program's effects across neighborhoods and across time periods, we rely on the very novel DID_M estimator developed by De Chaisemartin and D'Haultfoeuille (forthcoming) and complement its results with a more traditional difference-in-differences estimation. Our results suggest that the program had non-significant and, in any case, very limited effects (i.e. smaller than 3.5%) on housing prices in renovated neighborhoods. The program's effects on transaction volumes are also non-significant. However, the program led to a sizable upward evolution in the socio-professional status of housing buyers as compared to sellers, suggesting some improvement in the attractivity of renovated neighborhoods.
Three Essays On Economics Of Social Relations With Heterogeneous Agents
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Author : Michele Biavati
language : en
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Release Date : 2005
Three Essays On Economics Of Social Relations With Heterogeneous Agents written by Michele Biavati and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
The Ideal Foundations Of Economic Thought
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Author : Werner Stark
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1998
The Ideal Foundations Of Economic Thought written by Werner Stark and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Business & Economics categories.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Three Essays In Development Economics
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Author : David Russell Hansen
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University
Release Date : 2011
Three Essays In Development Economics written by David Russell Hansen and has been published by Stanford University this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
This dissertation is composed of three chapters. All three deal with topics in development economics. The first chapter examines the effects on village institutions of introducing formal financial institution options into the village. The second addresses the effects of government policy on educational investment and crime. The third tests the explanatory power of various explanations of the gender gap in math test scores. The first chapter examines the effects of a transition from a ``traditional'' economy based on an uncertain source of income, with risk fully insured away by one's neighbors in a social network through costly network ties, to a ``modern'' economy in which some agents have access to partial insurance at a lower cost. A theoretical model is used to show that village social networks can break down as some members of the village no longer need the insurance the social network provides, producing a reduction in welfare (if the costs of reducing moral hazard are not too high) for at least some individuals and possibly the village as a whole. This loss of welfare can occur even when networks provide other benefits to those belonging to them and is likely to be heterogeneous, depending on the opportunities and networks available to individuals. This paper tests these predictions using Indonesian data to examine the effect of a change in the banking institutions available to a community on the strength of social networks (measured by community participation) and welfare (measured by household expenditure and by child health). The analysis finds that changing financial institution availability in general does not influence community participation or welfare, but that financial institutions that primarily serve certain groups do relatively reduce the welfare of households not in those groups, which is consistent with the hypotheses generated by the model. Crime is an important feature of economic life in many countries, especially in the developing world. Crime distorts many economic decisions because it acts like an unpredictable tax on earnings. In particular, the threat of crime may influence people's willingness to invest in schooling or physical capital. The second chapter explores the questions "What influence do crime rates and levels of investment have on one another?" and "How do government policies affect the relationship between investment and crime?" by creating a simple structural model of crime and educational investment and attempting to fit this model to Mexican data. A method of simulated moments procedure is used to estimate parameters of the model and the estimated parameters are then used to carry out policy simulations. The simulations show that increasing spending on police or increasing the severity of punishment reduces crime but has little effect on educational investment. Increased educational subsidies increase educational investment but reduce crime only slightly. Thus, one type of policy is insufficient to accomplish the goals of both reducing crime and increasing education. The third chapter is joint work with Prashant Bharadwaj, Giacomo De Giorgi, and Christopher Neilson. Boys tend to have better performances than girls in mathematical testing; in particular, there are significantly more boys than girls among high achievers and the score distribution appears to have a longer right tail for boys. We confirm such results on several low- and middle-income countries. In particular we find that the gender gap is already present by age 10 and substantially increases by age 14 and 15. We propose and try to test a series of explanations for such a gap: (i) parental investment, (ii) ability, (iii) school resources, (iv) individual investment and effort (not tested directly), (v) competitive environment, and (vi) cultural norms. We conclude that none of our proposed explanations can account for a substantial portion of the gap.
Introducing Social Context Into Economic Models
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Author : Natalia Vladimirovna Ovchinnikova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
Introducing Social Context Into Economic Models written by Natalia Vladimirovna Ovchinnikova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Consumer behavior categories.