Publications
Weatherhead Center Working Paper Series
- Can Good Projects Succeed in Bad Communities?
- by Khwaja, Asim
- The lack of "social capital" is increasingly forwarded as an explanation for why communities
perform poorly. Yet, to what extent can these community-specific constraints be compensated?...
- Publication Type: WCFIA Working Paper
- Published Date: December 2007 More
- 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
