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A conditional analysis of movers' housing responses
(Elsevier, 1990-09)
Movers' responses to the five-year trend in income prior to the move are studied using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the new Slopes-Only option in the Search program in OSIRIS. Other events around the ...
The quality dimension in army retention
(Elsevier, 1990)
Despite the relatively "egalitarian" (little pay for performance) structure of military compensation, those who do better on tests of proficiency in their military occupation are likely to re-enlist t those who do worse, ...
Long-run equilibria with borrowing constraints and altruism
(Elsevier, 1993)
This paper adapts a nonstochastic overlapping generations model to include liquidity constraints and intergenerational altruism. Existing work indicates the importance of both but often considers them separately. This paper ...
Female labour force participation, fertility and public policy in Sweden
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1992-09)
This paper analyzes the role of public policy for Sweden's combination of high female labour force participation and high levels of fertility in the late 1980s and early 1990s. We present the central elements in the tax ...
Democratic Institutions and Economic Reform: the Polish Case
(1998-04-01)
Analysis of the economic transformation of the Polish economy and of the 1993 elections for Parliament suggest that it is possible to proceed with pro-market and democratic reforms simultaneously. As demonstrated by the ...
Impacts of the Indonesian Economic Crisis: Price Changes and the Poor
(1999-06-01)
The recent financial crisis in Indonesia has resulted in dramatic price increases. Using very recent data, we investigate whether these price increases have impacted the cost-of-living of poor households in a disproportionately ...
The optimal choice of privatizing state-owned enterprises: A political economic model
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-03)
We study the choices of two types of maximizing Public Servants over how far to carry privatization of industries and in what order to privatize. Two stylizations of the Public Servant's objectives are considered, a ...
Veto games: Spatial committees under unanimity rule
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1998-12)
There exists a large literature on two-person bargaining games and distribution games (or divide-the-dollar games) under simple majority rule, where in equilibrium a minimal winning coalition takes full advantage over ...
Modeling Methods for Discrete Choice Analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1997-07)
This paper introduces new forms, sampling and estimation approaches fordiscrete choice models. The new models include behavioral specifications oflatent class choice models, multinomial probit, hybrid logit, andnon-parametric ...
Random earnings differences, lifetime liquidity constraints, and altruistic intergenerational transfers
(Elsevier, 1992-12)
This paper develops a model of private savings behavior in which households care about their descendants, cannot have negative net worth, and have lifetime earnings depending on random draws from an exogenous distribution ...