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    <title>Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine</title>
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    <description>Title: Determinants of Poverty during Transition: Household Survey Evidence from Ukraine
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Brück, Tilman; Danzer, Alexander M.; Muravyev, Alexander; Weißhaar, Natalia
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The paper analyzes the incidence, the severity and the determinants of household poverty in Ukraine during transition using two comparable surveys from 1996 and 2004. We measure poverty using income and consumption and contrast the effects of various poverty lines. Poverty in both periods follows some of the determinants commonly identified in the literature, including greater poverty among households with children and with less education. We also identify specific features of poverty in transition, including the relatively low importance of unemployment and the existence of poverty even among households with employment. Poverty determinants change over time in line with the experience of transition and restructuring.</description>
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    <title>Incentive Effects of Transfers within the Extended Family: The Case of Indonesia</title>
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    <description>Title: Incentive Effects of Transfers within the Extended Family: The Case of Indonesia
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Schüler, Dana
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: This study sheds light on the efficiency of informal mutual insurance systems. Evidence on the behavioral effects of remittances and inter-family transfers is still rare. This paper intends to analyse the incentive effects of inter-family transfers in Indonesia with improved econometric techniques. First differences and three-stage least squares are used to analyse incentive effects on working hours. The endogeneity of transfers received and of the number of migrants sent away are explicitly taken into account. Furthermore, different sectors of employment are distinguished in the analysis. The empirical analysis indicates that inter-family transfers have an adverse influence on work effort in the informal and non-agricultural sector of the economy. Precisely, household members of working age reduce normal hours worked. No evidence is found that child work is reduced. However, the negative incentive effect is partly compensated by migrants, who are recipients rather than providers of transfers in the short run. Keywords: Remittances, Tran</description>
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    <title>Conflict and Production: An Application to Natural Resources</title>
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    <description>Title: Conflict and Production: An Application to Natural Resources
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Wick, Katharina
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We present a Stackelberg model of conflict, in which contestants have limited endowments to be put in two separate sectors, thus incorporating salient features of many conflicts. The model is applied to the case of conflict over natural resources. Consistent with amounting empirical evidence regarding a so-called "resource curse", we find that the relation between conflict intensity and resource rents is non-monotonous, and that the economy's income growth rate may be negatively affected by resource abundance.</description>
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    <title>The Impact of Political Risk on Sovereign Bond Spreads - Evidence from Latin America</title>
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    <description>Title: The Impact of Political Risk on Sovereign Bond Spreads - Evidence from Latin America
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Moser, Christoph
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Sovereign risk is defined as a country?s ability-to-pay and willingness-to-pay its debt. This paper examines how cabinet reshuffles affecting the ministry of finance or economics are perceived by sovereign bond holders in twelve Latin American countries from 1992 to 2005. We find that such political news instantaneously increases bond spreads. Furthermore, spreads trend significantly upward in the 40 days leading up to the minister change, before flattening out on a higher level in the 40 days thereafter. Evidence suggests that uncertainty about the future course of economic policy and the government?s willingness-to-pay increases refinancing costs for respective emerging markets.</description>
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