... American Association of Wine Economists (AAWE) just posted a new AAWE Working Paper on its website. For free online access please click on the link provided below: AAWE Working Paper No. 50 Economics The Economics of Collective Reputation: Minimum Quality ... and Optimal Group Size Stefano Castriota and Marco Delmastro For more free AAWE Working Papers check

... and after savings for education were either wiped out or greatly diminished last year due to the stock market falling.” Because this is a hot topic, CCAP wants to release for comment a working paper on administrative staff in higher ed. A final version of this essay will be included in a volume to be released in the future.

Diasporas Author Info Beine, Michel Docquier, Frederic Ozden, Caglar Abstract Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, the authors analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. The analysis exploits a ...

…can now be downloaded from the “Papers” section of this blog. I decided to upload the paper which I prepared for our research seminar in its original form. I wrote about the gist of it in the previous post: drawing on existing attempts to operationalize online deliberation, I developed a coding scheme measuring the reciprocity of

On November 13th, Wikileaks released the confidential working paper for India’s UID number project. The paper discusses UIDAI approach and provides high level numbers for enrolment, costs ... in the civil society in the planning and design stage. Extracts from the paper and questions/concerns for discussion below. The Unique Identification Authority of India ( ...

... for older individuals because it represents resources available for consumption in retirement. In this paper we employ eight waves of panel data from the Health and Retirement ... at higher rates than those who remain divorced. View/Download Working Paper (PDF): What Replace Rates Should Households Use? by ...