Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- Cultural Diversity and Poverty Eradication
- by Lamont, Michèle; Small, Mario Luis
- This paper examines the relationship between culture and poverty, paying special attention to cultural diversity, economic development, and the challenges facing the reduction of poverty in a...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: November 30, 2007 More
- Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores
- by Alesina, Alberto; Ichino, Andrea; Karabarbounis, Loukas
- Gender Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey’s optimal criterion by taxing less the more elastic labor supply of (married) women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: November 9, 2007 More
- Trade and Capital Flows: A Financial Frictions Perspective
- by Antràs, Pol; Caballero, Ricardo J.
- The classical Heckscher-Ohlin-Mundell paradigm states that trade and capital mobility are
substitutes, in the sense that trade integration reduces the incentives for capital to ow to
capital-scarce...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: November 2, 2007 More
- Pre-Industrial Inequality: An Early Conjectural Map
- by Williamson, Jeffery G.; Milanovic, Branko; Lindert, Peter H.
- Did our pre-industrial ancestors have incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they
are today? Or is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? For want of
sufficient data, these...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: August 23, 2007 More
- Institutional Change in Varieties of Capitalism
- by Hall, Peter A.; Thelen, Kathleen
- Comparative political economists have become deeply interested in processes of institutional change, and especially in those taking place in response to the opening of world markets associated with...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: August 2007 More
- Nominations for Sale
- by Shepsle, Kenneth A.; Console-Battilana, Silvia
- Models of nomination politics in the US often
find "gridlock" in equilibrium because of the super-majority
requirement in the Senate for the confo
rmation of presidential nominees. A...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: October 2007 More
