Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF): Recent submissions
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The elusive productivity effect of trade liberalization in the manufacturing industries of emerging economies
(2010-10)Using a model that admits variable returns and imperfect competition, we investigate the impact on total factor productivity of trade liberalization in six emerging economies. Regressions based on panel data for 28 three-digit ... -
In search of an evolutionary edge: trading with a few, more, or many
(2010-09)Consider a population of farmers who live around a lake. Each farmer engages in trade with his <em>m</em> adjacent neighbors, where <em>m</em> is termed the “span of interaction.” Trade is governed by a prisoner’s dilemma ... -
Optimization of land and resource use at farm-aggregated level in the Aral Sea Basin of Uzbekistan with the integrated model FLEOM: model description and first application
(2010-07)Land use and crop production in the Khorezm region in western Uzbekistan, exemplarily for the irrigated low-lands of Central Asia, is adversely affected by the excessive, non-sustainable use of irrigation water on one hand, ... -
Peak phosphorus: Implications for agricultural production, the environment and development
(2010-07)Phosphorus is a key element in food production, but is a non-renewable resource. Recent estimates suggest that global production of P fertilizers will peak in 2033 and will be one third of that peak level by the end of the ... -
Casting the naturalization of asylum seekers as an economic problem
(2010-05)The naturalization of asylum seekers is modeled as an economic problem. In choosing their level of investment in host-country-specific human capital, asylum seekers take into consideration the probability of their being ... -
Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare
(2011-12)This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: “engineering,” which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and ... -
Determinants of participation in child’s education and alternative activities in Pakistan
(2011-12)Using data from Pakistan, this study analyzed the effect of various individual, household, and community level characteristics on the probability that children engage in different activities. According to the existing trend ... -
Determinants of public health expenditures in Pakistan
(2011-11)This study describes the macroeconomic determinants of health care spending in a broad context using time series data from Pakistan on economic, demographic, social, and political variables. The data spans a period from ... -
On the formation of international migration policies when no country has an exclusive policy-setting say
(2011-10)This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision how much ... -
A concern about low relative income, and the alignment of utilitarianism with egalitarianism
(2011-10)A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who are most efficient in converting income into utility. However, when individuals are concerned about their income falling ... -
The new cooperative medical scheme (NCMS) and its implications for access to health care and medical expenditure: Evidence from rural China
(2011-10)The New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) program was implemented in response to ‘illness-led poverty’ and poor state of healthcare in rural China. Supported by government subsidy, more and more poor rural households are ... -
Should China revisit the 1994 fiscal reforms?
(2011-09)The 1994 reforms in China were remarkably successful in stabilizing the economy and raising revenues for the benefit of sustainable growth and permitting the central government to redistribute resources to poorer regions ... -
The merger of populations, the incidence of marriages, and aggregate unhappiness
(2011-07)Let a society’s unhappiness be measured by the aggregate of the levels of relative deprivation of its members. When two societies of equal size, <em>F</em> and <em>M</em>, merge, unhappiness in the merged society is shown ... -
Is population growth conducive to the sustainability of cooperation?
(2011-07)This paper asks whether population growth is conducive to the sustainability of cooperation. A simple model is developed in which farmers who live around a circular lake engage in trade with their adjacent neighbors. The ... -
Food demand analysis of Indonesian households with particular attention to the poorest
(2011-08)The purpose of this study is to analyze the demand responses of Indonesian households to food prices, income changes and other socioeconomic factors. The underlying assumption here is that inadequate information on household ... -
Why would some migrants choose to engage in degrading work?
(2011-03)This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two “bads:” that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging ... -
Endogenous selection of comparison groups, human capital formation, and tax policy
(2011-01)This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, ... -
Harnessing the forces of urban expansion: The public economics of farmland development allowance
(2011-01)For decades, rapid urban expansion has led to concerns over the loss of cultivated land in rural China. This contrasts sharply with another salient feature of the Chinese land policy reform landscape that has gone on largely ... -
The prospect of migration, sticky wages, and "educated unemployment"
(2011-01)An increase in the probability of work abroad, where the returns to schooling are higher than at home, induces more individuals in a developing country to acquire education, which leads to an increase in the supply of ...
