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6737: International spillovers and absorptive capacity: a cross-country, cross-sector analysis based on European patents and citations

Maria Mancusi

6732: A general analysis of sequential merger games with an application to cross-border mergers

Alberto Salvo

6731: Market share dynamics and the ‘persistence of leadership’ debate

John Sutton

6728: Inferring conduct under the threat of entry: the case of the Brazilian cement industry

Alberto Salvo

6726: Differential merger effects: the case of the personal computer industry

Christos Genakos

6721: The long and short of the Canada-U.S. free trade agreement

Daniel Trefler

6719: Optimal corporation tax: an I.O. approach

Luca Colombo, Paola Labrecciosa and Patrick Walsh

6718: Broad cross-license agreements and persuasive patent litigation: theory and evidence from the semiconductor industry

Alberto Galasso

6715: Does the labour market explain lower female schooling in India?

Geeta Kingdon

6711: Development thinking at the beginning of the 21st century

Amartya Sen

6705: What's the point of a development strategy?

Amartya Sen

6704: Estimation of conditional densities and sensitivity measures in nonlinear dynamical systems

Jianqing Fan, Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6697: A bootstrap detection for operational determinism

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6692: Credit in rural India: a case study

Jean Dreze, Peter Lanjouw and Naresh Sharma

6684: The economics of poverty in poor countries

Partha Dasgupta

6682: Investigating rationality in wage-setting

Sonia Bhalotra

6679: Intrahousehold resource allocation in rural Pakistan: a semi-parametric analysis

Sonia Bhalotra and Cliff Attfield

6677: Decentralization schemes, cost-benefit-analysis, and net national product as a measure of social well-being

Partha Dasgupta and Karl-Goran Maler

6675: Ethnic diversity, mobility and school funding: theory and evidence from Kenya

Edward Miguel

6672: The economics of non-governmental organisations

Colin Scott and R. Hopkins

6670: Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity

Rohini Pande

6666: School participation in rural India

Jean Dreze and Geeta Kingdon

6663: Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India

Jean Dreze and Mamta Murthi

6660: Financial intermediation, variability and the development process

Luis Carranza and Jose Galdon-Sanchez

6657: Valuation and evaluation: measuring the quality of life and evaluating policy

Partha Dasgupta

6656: The rise of mass consumption societies

Kiminori Matsuyama

6654: Child farm labour: theory and evidence

Sonia Bhalotra and Christopher Heady

6653: Private investment and political uncertainty

David Stasavage

6652: Is child work necessary?

Sonia Bhalotra

6651: Commodity taxation and social welfare: the generalised Ramsey rule

David Coady and Jean Dreze

6649: What makes a revolution?

Robert MacCulloch

6648: Does social insurance help secure property rights?

Robert MacCulloch

6647: Is a friend in need a friend indeed? Inclusion and exclusion in mutual insurance networks in southern Ghana

Markus Goldstein, Alan de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet

6646: The role of freedom, growth and religion in the taste for revolution

Robert MacCulloch and Silvia Pezzini

6645: Democracy and education spending: has Africa's move to multiparty elections made a difference to policy?

David Stasavage

6644: Intrahousehold efficiency and individual insurance in Ghana

Marcus Goldstein

6643: Eviction threats and investment incentives

Abhijit Banerjee and Maitreesh Ghatak

6642: Government corruption and legislative procedures: is one chamber better than two?

Cecilia Testa

6641: Gender discrimination and growth: theory and evidence from India

Berta Esteve-Volart

6640: Does envy destroy social fundamentals? The impact of relative income position on social capital

Justina A. V. Fischer and Benno Torgler

6638: Linearity testing using local polynominal approximation

Vidar Hjellvik, Qiwei Yao and Dag Tjostheim

6636: Mixed dominance: a new criterion for poverty analysis

Stephen Howes

6635: Efficient estimation of conditional variance functions in stochastic regression

Jianqing Fan and Qiwei Yao

6633: Robust estimation of personal income distribution models

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

6631: Methods for estimating a conditional distribution function

Peter Hall, Rodney C. L. Wolff and Qiwei Yao

6625: Monotonicity and the Pareto principle

Yoram Amiel and Frank Cowell

6621: Identifying the poor: a multiple indicator approach

Ramses Abul Naga

6601: On the performance of social benefit systems

Christian Schluter

6599: On the non-stationarity of German income mobility (and some observations on poverty dynamics)

Christian Schluter

6597: Prediction and sufficiency in the model factor analysis

Ramses Abul Naga

6596: Linear inequality concepts and social welfare

Udo Ebert

6595: The subjective approach to the measurement of income inequality

Yoram Amiel

6594: Inequality in Greece: an analysis by income source

Christos Papatheodorou

6591: Happiness in transition: the case of Kyrgyzstan

Ceema Namazie and Peter Sanfey

6586: Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s

Francisco Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

6583: Evaluation via extended orderings: empirical findings from west and east

Wulf Gaertner and Jochen Jungeilges

6582: Choices in egalitarian distribution: inequality aversion versus risk aversion

Yoram Kroll and Leima Davidovitz

6579: Estimating the intergenerational correlation of incomes: an errors in variables framework

Ramses Abul Naga

6574: Responsibility-sensitive fair compensation in different cultures

Erik Schokkaert and Kurt Devooght

6568: Decomposing inequality in Greece: results and policy implications

Christos Papatheodorou

6566: Education, inequality and income inequality

Daniele Checchi

6564: Galtonian regression of intergenerational income linkages: biased procedures, a new estimator and mean-square error comparisons

Ramses Abul Naga

6562: A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Ramses Abul Naga

6561: Robust income distribution estimation with missing data

Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser

6560: The wild bootstrap, tamed at last

Russell Davidson and Emmanuel Flachaire

6559: Measuring inequality by counting 'complaints': theory and empirics

Kurt Devooght

6557: Early evidence of welfare changes in the Kyrgyz republic: have things got worse with reforms?

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6555: Who bore the burden of wage arrears in the Kyrgyz republic?

Ceema Zahra Namazie

6553: Convergence club empirics: some dynamics and explanations of unequal growth across Indian states

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

6551: Argentina's crises and the poor, 1995-2002

Guillermo Cruces and Quentin Wodon

6550: Risk-adjusted poverty in Argentina: measurement and determinants

Guillermo Cruces and Quentin Wodon

6548: Hierarchic contracting

Miguel A. Sanchez and Rafael Hortala-Vallve

6547: Knowledge-based economic development: mass media and the weightless economy

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

6546: Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Kazutoshi Miyazawa

6545: Income fluctuation, poverty and well-being over time: theory and application to Argentina

Guillermo Cruces

6544: Understanding inequality trends: microsimulation decomposition for Italy

Carlo Fiorio

6543: Anti-evasion auditing policy in the presence of common income shocks

Miguel Sanchez-Villalba

6541: Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes

Ramses Abul Naga and Pierre Geoffard

6538: Inequality measurement for ordered response health data

Ramses Abul Naga and Tarik Yalcin

6537: Redistributive taxation and public expenditures

Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay and Joan Esteban

6536: Corporate tax competition and public capital stock

Pedro Gomes and Francois Pouget

6533: Maternity leave policies and women's employment after childbirth: evidence from the United States, Britain and Japan

Jane Waldfogel, Yoshio Higuchi and Masahiro Abe

6527: Income dynamics in Germany, the USA and the UK: evidence from panel data

Christian Schluter

6525: An economic model of household income dynamics, with an application to poverty dynamics among American women

Simon Burgess and Carol Propper

6516: Social exclusion, social isolation and the distribution of income

Brian Barry

6509: When work disappears: new implications for race and urban poverty in the global economy

William Julius Wilson

6501: The decline of employment among older people in Britain

Nigel Campbell

6487: Income transfers to the elderly in East Asia: testing Asian values

Huck-Ju Kwon

6481: The family gap in pay: evidence from seven industrialised countries

Susan Harkness and Jane Waldfogel

6478: The class of '81: the effects of early-career unemployment on subsequent unemployment experiences

Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Hedley Rees and Arran Shearer

6476: Low inequality with low redistribution? An analysis of income distribution in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan compared to Britain

Didier Jacobs

6450: Measuring income risk

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner, Stephen Jenkins and Carol Propper

6438: Why rising tides don't lift all boats: an explanation of the relationship between poverty and unemployment in Britain

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

6437: Welfare reform and lone mothers' employment in the US

Jane Waldfogel, Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger and Kristin Seefeldt

6432: Growing up: school, family and area influences on adolescents' later life chances

Simon Burgess, Karen Gardiner and Carol Propper

6430: Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate

John Micklewright

6410: On prediction and chaos in stochastic systems

Howell Tong and Qiwei Yao

6409: On subset selection in non-parametric stochastic regression

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6402: On initial-condition sensitivity and prediction in nonlinear stochastic systems

Qiwei Yao and Howell Tong

6397: Expanding the domain of policy-relevant scholarship in the social sciences

William Julius Wilson