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Inequality and Economic Growth: The Perspective of the New Growth Theories
(American Economic Association, 1999)
We analyze the relationship between inequality and economic growth from two directions. The first part of the survey examines the effect of inequality on growth, showing that when capital markets are imperfect, there is ...
The Natufian Culture and the Origin of the Neolithic in the Levant
(University of Chicago Press, 1990)
On the Nature of Transitions: the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic and the Neolithic Revolution
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1998)
This article discusses two major revolutions in the history of humankind, namely, the Neolithic and the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic revolutions. The course of the first one is used as a general analogy to study the second, ...
Renegotiation Design with Unverifiable Information
(The Econometric Society, 1994)
This paper considers a buyer-seller relationship with observable but unverifiable investments and/or random utility parameters. In such situations, it is known that contract renegotiation may prevent the implementation of ...
National Employment Systems and Job Autonomy: Why Job Autonomy Is High in the Nordic Countries and Low in the United States, Canada, and Australia
(Sage Publications, 1999)
We present evidence that, across countries, similar jobs carry very different levels of autonomy. Workers in Nordic countries have greater discretion than workers in the United States, Canada, and Australia, all else being ...
The Political Economy of Fiscal Adjustments
(Brookings Institution Press, 1998)
Review of Governance of the American Economy, ed. by John L. Campbell, J. Rogers Hollingsworth, and Leon N. Lindberg
(American Sociological Association, 1992)
A Theory of Divided Government
(JSTOR, 1996)
This paper extends the spatial theory of voting to the case in which policy choices depend upon the interaction between executive and the legislature. Voters are strategic and to analyze equilibrium the authors apply ...
Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1997)
It is hypothesized that collective efficacy, defined as social cohesion among neighbors combined with their willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good, is linked to reduced violence. This hypothesis was tested ...