Browsing Working Papers by Author "Mani, Anandi"

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    • Democracy and Visibility 
      Mani, Anandi; Mukand, Sharun W. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)
      We examine the role of visibility in influencing government resource allocation across multiple public goods. In an electoral framework, outcomes are defined to be less visible in tasks if it is harder to assess government ...
    • Income Distribution and the Demand Constraint 
      Mani, Anandi (Vanderbilt University, 2000)
      This paper argues that the interaction between inequality and the demand patterns for goods is a potential source of persistent inequality. Income distribution, in the presence of non-homothetic preferences, affect the ...
    • Social Approval and Occupational Choice 
      Mani, Anandi; Mullin, Charles H. (Vanderbilt University, 2000)
      We examine the impact of a desire for social approval on education and occupation choice and model the endogenous determination of perceptions that influence such approval. In a two-sector overlapping generations framework, ...
    • Social Approval and Teenage Childbearing 
      Mani, Anandi; Mullin, Charles H. (Vanderbilt University, 2001)
      We examine the phenomenon of "pockets of teenage illegitimacy" in a model of social approval, where attitudes to such illegitimacy are endogenously determined at a local community level. Both a woman's actual well-being ...