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Quantifying Ethnic Cleansing: An Application to Darfur
(2010-12)This paper has two objectives: First, to develop and critically examine various measures of ethnic cleansing on the basis of a review of the existing literature. Second, to apply the suggested measures to a unique sample ... -
Racing to the bottom? Chinese development projects and trade union involvement in Africa
(2017-04)Chinese firms operating in Africa are often accused of violating international labour standards and not adhering with national labour laws. Considering China’s tendency to maintain control over development projects throughout ... -
Real Exchange Rate Adjustment In European Transition Countries
(2006)This paper presents unit-root test results for real exchange rates in ten Central and Eastern European transition countries during 1993:01-2003:12. Because of the shift from controlled to market economies and the ... -
Real Wages and Returns to Human Capital in Kenya Manufacturing firms
(2002)This paper studies how real wages and wage returns to human capital in Kenya manufacturing firms changed, using cross-section data sets from a survey conducted in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 2000. A quantile regression technique ... -
Real-Estate Agent Commission Structure and Sales Performance
(2017-02)Do higher real-estate agent fees imply better performance? This study uses a nation-wide dataset of residential real-estate transactions in the Netherlands from 1985 to 2011 to provide evidence against this. Brokers with ... -
Reciprocity Networks and the Participation Problem
(2014-08)Reciprocity can be a powerful motivation for human behaviour. Scholars argue that it is relevant in the context of private provision of public goods. We examine whether reciprocity can resolve the associated coordination ... -
Reconciling Pro-Social vs. Selfish Behavior - Evidence for the Role of Self-Control
(2010-05-10)We test the proposition that individuals may experience a self-control conflict between short-term temptation to be selfish and better judgment to act pro-socially. Using a dictator game and a public goods game, we manipulated ... -
Redistribution through Charity and Optimal Taxation when People are Concerned with Social Status
(2016-01)This paper deals with tax policy responses to charitable giving based on a model of optimal redistributive income taxation. The major contribution is the simultaneous treatment of (i) warm-glow and stigma effects of ... -
Reducing Global Warming and Adapting to Climate Change: The Potential of Organic Agriculture
(2012-04)Climate change mitigation is urgent, and adaptation to climate change is crucial, particularly in agriculture, where food security is at stake. Agriculture, currently responsible for 20-30% of global greenhouse gas emissions ... -
Reducing the gap between stated and real behavior in transportation studies: The use of an oath script
(2017-09)We investigate whether taking an oath in a survey situation affects respondent behavior in choice experiments with a focus on travel time, comfort, and cost. We conduct two studies in Beijing: one with car commuters and ... -
REFERENCE PRICING - Making Parallel Trade in Pharmaceuticals Work
(2009-06-17)Should governments allow parallel trade of pharmaceuticals? There is no clear-cut answer to this question, since parallel trade causes some public concerns. One is that prices might not decrease much in the home country ... -
Reference-dependent behaviour of paua (abalone) divers in New Zealand
(2011-08)We study dynamic labour supply using data on paua (abalone) divers in New Zealand. The divers face stable, flat prices per kilogram after each catch, but experience transitory wage changes due to varying weather and water ... -
Reference-Dependent Utility in an Industrial Cluster
(2003)This article tries to explain the exceptional levels of knowledge creation in certain industrial clusters, levels that are seemingly higher than what is implied by the usual models of atomistic agents who do not internalize ... -
Refugee immigration and public finances in Sweden
(2015-02)This study estimates the fiscal cost of refugee immigration. This is done by calculating the total value of economic resources that are redistributed through the public sector in Sweden in 2007 to the population of immigrants ... -
Regression Analysis and Time Use Data A Comparison of Microeconometric Approaches with Data from the Swedish Time Use Survey (HUS)
(1998)This study focuses on a comparison and evaluation of models and estimators appropriate for time-use data. The tobit type I as well as different generalizations are used. According to our findings, a simple tobit I method ... -
Regulatory Compliance in Lake Victoria Fisheries
(2005)This paper analyzes the causes for regulatory compliance using traditional deterrence variables and potential moral and social variables. We use self-reported data from Tanzanian artisanal fishers in Lake Victoria. The ... -
Rejection Probabilities for a Battery of Unit-Root Tests
(2013-05)If the researcher tests each model in a battery at the a % significance level, the probability that at least one test rejects is generally larger than a %. For five unit-root models, this paper uses Monte Carlo simulation ... -
Relative Standing and Life-Satisfaction: Does Unobserved Heterogeneity Matter?
(2013-12)Unlike most studies of subjective well-being in developing countries, we use a fixed effects regression on three rounds of rich panel data to investigate the impact of relative standing on life satisfaction of respondents ... -
Remittances after natural disasters: Evidence from the 2004 Indian tsunami
(2014-08)We examine the impact of the 2004 Indian tsunami on international remittance transfers using aggregate country data and synthetic control methodology. This procedure implies identifying the causal impact of the disaster ... -
Remittances and Relative Concerns in Rural China
(2015-08)The paper investigates the impact of remittances on the relative concerns of households in rural China. Using the Rural to Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) dataset we estimate a series of well-being functions to simultaneously ...