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Schumpeter's 'Vision' as Filter for his Evaluation of other Economists' Visions
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
In his History of Economic Analysis, Schumpeter stated that although the subject of his book is a history of economic analysis, "analytic effort is of necessity preceded by a preanalytic cognitive act that supplies the raw ...
Aids Home and Community-Based Waivers: Effects on Use of Services Expeditures and Survival
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
State Medicaid home and community-based waiver programs for persons with AIDS (PWAs) were implemented with the expectation that PWAs would use home and community-based services in lieu of more expensive hospital-based care. ...
Money and Prices in a Multiple Matching Decentralized Trading Model
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
We study price determination and exchange patterns in a monopolistically competitive economy, in which both goods and (fiat) money are perfectly divisible. The decentralized trading environment features 'multiple matches,' ...
Post-Independence India: A Case of Finance-Led Industrialization?
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
This paper examines whether financial intermediaries have played a leading role in influencing India's economic performance. After describing the evolution and functions of the financial sector, we construct a set of vector ...
Educational Policy and Skill Heterogeneity with Credit Market Imperfections
(Vanderbilt University, 2000)
An overlapping-generations model where agents choose whether to become educated when young is presented. Education enhances productivity, but needs to be financed by borrowing. Because of the possibility of default, lenders ...
Bargaining over Sons and Daughters:Child Labor, School Attendance and Intra-Household Gender Bias in Brazil
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
In this paper we examine intra-household gender differences and the incidence of child labor and children¬πs school attendance in Brazil to test whether the unitary model of household allocations is suitable in the child ...
Earnings Dynamics and Inequality in Venezuela: 1995-1997
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
In this paper, we decompose the variance of logarithmic monthly earnings of prime age males into its permanent and transitory components, using a five-wave rotating panel from the Venezuelan "Encuesta de Hogares por Muestreo" ...
Is There a Child Labor Trap?Inter-Generational Persistence of Child Labor in Brazil
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
This paper examines inter-generational persistence in child labor by developing a dynamic model and exploring its implications empirically in Brazil. We begin by building a simple overlapping generations model of the ...
Birth Order, Child Labor and School Attendance in Brazil
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
This paper examines the effects of birth order on the child labor incidence and school attendance of Brazilian children. Evidence from the psychology and sociology literature suggests that earlier-born children tend to ...
Wage Inequality Changes in Brazil: Market Forces, Macroeconomic Instability and Labor Market Institutions (1981-1997)
(Vanderbilt University, 2002)
In this paper, I examine the sources of wage inequality changes among prime age male workers in Brazil during the 1980's and 1990's. Inequality increased in the 1980's and decreased in the 1990's. I begin by decomposing ...