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We perform a comparative analysis of regional growth and convergence in China, Russia and India over the period 1993-2003 by means of non-parametric methods and kernel density estimates. Our results indicate that wealthy regions were largely responsible for the rapid growth in all three countries. For China and India, capital dissipation was identified as the major determinant of regional growth. In ...
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Economics of Transition
18 (2010), 3, S. 539-570
| Oleg Badunenko, Kiril Tochkov
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This paper investigates the impact of governance structure on firm performance (i.e., retail prices) using a database of 765 German water suppliers. Controlling for scale economies as well as technical and structural characteristics, we find that private sector participation is accompanied with higher retail prices. Furthermore, Eastern states on average feature higher prices mirroring significant ...
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Utilities Policy
18 (2010), 3, S. 154-162
| Sophia Rüster, Michael Zschille
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The real interest parity (RIP) condition combines two cornerstones in international finance, uncovered interest parity (UIP) and ex ante purchasing power parity (PPP). The extent of deviation from RIP is therefore an indicator of the lack of product and financial market integration. This paper investigates whether the nominal exchange rate regime has an impact on RIP. The analysis is based on 15 annual ...
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North American Journal of Economics and Finance
21 (2010), 3, S. 274-285
| Christian Dreger
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We analyze the role of distance to the nearest university in the demand for higher education in Germany. Distance could matter due to transaction costs or due to neighbourhood effects. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) combined with a database on university postal codes to estimate a discrete choice model of the demand for higher education. We show that - controlling for other ...
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Economics of Education Review
29 (2010), 3, S. 470-479
| C. Katharina Spieß, Katharina Wrohlich
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We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a non-intact family in Germany. We find that this experience is associated with worse outcomes according to estimates from models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and educational performance. Evidence of adverse effects emerges also when endogeneity is accounted for. ...
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Journal of Population Economics
23 (2010), 3, S. 1073-1103
| Marco Francesconi, Stephen P. Jenkins, Thomas Siedler
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In this paper, we empirically derive the welfare function that guarantees that the current German tax and transfer system for single women is optimal. In particular, we compare the welfare function conditional on the presence and age of children and assess how recent reforms of in-kind childcare transfers affect the welfare function. Our analysis is based on a discrete model of optimal taxation. We ...
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German Economic Review
11 (2010), 3, S. 278-301
| Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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Life-span psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine whether and how regional variables relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year longitudinal data from deceased participants of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 3,427; age at ...
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Psychology and Aging
25 (2010), 3, S. 661-676
| Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Schupp, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner
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We consider two different approaches to describe the formation of social networks under mutual consent and costly communication. First, we consider a network-based approach; in particular Jackson-Wolinsky's concept of pairwise stability. Next, we discuss a non-cooperative game-theoretic approach, through a refinement of the Nash equilibria of Myerson's consent game. This refinement, denoted as monadic ...
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Mathematical Social Sciences
60 (2010), 3, S. 181-185
| Robert P. Gilles, Sudipta Sarangi
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Complementing prior research on income and educational mobility, we examine the intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities. We find that individuals' cognitive skills are positively related to their parents' abilities, despite controlling for educational attainment and family background. Differentiating between mothers' and fathers' IQ transmission, we find different effects on the cognition ...
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Journal of Population Economics
23 (2010), 3, S. 1105-1132
| Silke Anger, Guido Heineck
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In this paper, we present a nonparametric comparative efficiency analysis of 179 communal public transport bus companies in Germany (1990-2004). We apply both deterministic data envelopment analysis (DEA) and bootstrapping to test the robustness of our estimates and to test the hypothesis of global and individual constant returns to scale. We find that the average technical efficiency of German bus ...
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Transportation Research Part E
46 (2010), 3, S. 436-445
| Christian von Hirschhausen, Astrid Cullmann