Jeffrey B Nugent
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 695817 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jeffrey B Nugent |
| NOMBRES | Jeffrey B |
| APELLIDO | Nugent |
| FIRMA | NUGENT J B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0986-5847 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 54 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1967 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Mitigating Life Challenges to Subjective Well-Being Through Civic Engagement
Adversities in Syria and their relation to their physical and mental health conditions as Syrian refugees in Turkey
The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which different health problems among Syrian refugees in Turkey can be traced back to three different conditions in Syria (Family Member Killed, House Damaged, and Income) as well as to Commonality among Neighbors back in Syria as well as in Turkey. As is common, the findings show their effects on mental health to be most common, especially among females, but also that (1) the effects on disea…
Bahrain and the Gulf
When Do Firms Choose to Train? The Roles of Labour Regulations, Their Enforcement, and Firm and Industry Characteristics
This article estimates the effects of rigid labour regulations, their enforcement and other conditions facing individual firms on the likelihood that a firm offers training to its workers. The estimates are based on firm-level data from the Enterprise Surveys. The findings show that the effects of labour regulations vary considerably across firms in ways that reflect interaction between labour regulations on the one hand and enforcement, institut…
Crises, What Crises? New Evidence on the Relative Roles of Political and Economic Crises in Begetting Reforms
Crises beget reforms is a powerful hypothesis. But which type of crises - economic or political - are the main drivers of structural reforms? To answer this question, we construct measures of labour market and trade liberalisation and the two types of crises for a panel of about 100 developed and developing countries between 1960 and 2000. We find that political crises are more important determinants of structural reforms than economic crises. Th…
Are factor endowments fate
In recent theories of comparative development, the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet, what explains comparative institutional evolution? We investigate this issue by studying the coffee exporting economies of Latin America. Although homogeneous in many ways, they experienced radically different paths of economic (and political) development, which is conventionally traced to the differential organization of the coffee industr…
Associations versus registration as alternative strategies of small firms
Institutions and Economic Performance
The New Institutional Economics
The New Institutional Economics (NIE) has developed in order to find answers to the following kinds of questions that could not be answered (at least until very recently) by traditional economics (either neoclassical or Marxian): Why are institutions so different from one time and place to another? Why are they the way they are? How and to what extent do they explain differences in productivity? Why and how do inefficient institutions get locked …
Aggregate Investment and Political Instability
Although in theory the long‐run effect of uncertainty on investment is ambiguous, available econometric evidence widely supports a negative association between aggregate investment and political instability. A shortcoming of this body of evidence is that it has failed to investigate the existence and direction of causality between these two variables. This paper fills this gap by testing for such causal and negative long‐run relationship between …
Small and Medium Enterprises in Korea
Who is afraid of political instability
Tunisia's Lending Program to SMEs
Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance
Host country reforms and FDI inflows
Long-term growth in Tunisia
Instituciones y crecimiento ¿Puede el capital humano ser un vínculo
Este artículo interna identificar un vínculo más firme entre las instituciones y el crecimiento económico. Para ello, i) señala las instituciones que más importan para el desempeño económico, ii) expone los fundamentos de por qué importan más. y iii) confronta dichos fundamentos con ciertas observaciones empíricas sistemáticas. Se postula aquí que la característica central y común de las instituciones en cuestión es que brindan a los agentes la p…
Institutions and growth
This paper attempts to provide a sounder link between institutions and economic growth. It does so by i) identifying those institutions which might matter the most with respect to economic performance, ii) providing a rationale as to why they might matter, and iii) confronting that rationale with some systematic empirical evidence. We postulate that the central and common characteristic of relevant institutions is that they give agents a voice, a…
What explains the trend reversal in the size distribution of Korean manufacturing establishments
Micro-Enterprises and the institutional framework in developing countries
Old age security
Between state, markets and households
Tribes, Chiefs, and Transhumance
Share contracts and their rationale
Most of the existing literature on share contracts is based explicitly or implicitly on agriculture, a sector in which share contracts are seldom dominant and apparently on the decline. Moreover, since agricultural activities have some rather special characteristics, the purpose of the present article is to analyse contractual choice and especially the choice of share contracts in a sector in which share contracts are dominant, namely fishing. In…
Development of financial markets and the size distribution of manufacturing establishments
Host country reforms and FDI inflows
The Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility
The conditions under which the old-age security motive could be expected to be significant for fertility are described. Such conditions are likely to prevail in rural areas of developing countries and especially among women. Empirical studies on the subject are evaluated and the inconclusive and contradictory nature of the findings are attributed to failures to select appropriate samples and variables. Most findings derive from studies only margi…
The New Institutional Economics and its applicability to development
Who is afraid of political instability
Development Performance and the Institutions of Governance
Between state, markets and households
Are factor endowments fate
In recent theories of comparative development, the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet, what explains comparative institutional evolution? We investigate this issue by studying the coffee exporting economies of Latin America. Although homogeneous in many ways, they experienced radically different paths of economic (and political) development, which is conventionally traced to the differential organization of the coffee industr…
Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with Transactions Costs
The choice between wage labor and sharecrop contracts is analyzed in a model that avoids both the pitfalls of previous models--inefficiency of sharecropping and indeterminacy--by introducing transactions costs with appropriate nonlinearities. Plantation data from the American South provide empirical support for the hypothesized nonlinearity in transactions costs and simultaneous determination of direct supervision and contractual choice
Old Age Pensions and Fertility in Rural Areas of Less Developed Countries
What explains the trend reversal in the size distribution of Korean manufacturing establishments
Tribes, Chiefs, and Transhumance
Exchange-Rate Movements and Economic Development in the Late Nineteenth Century
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that devaluation stimulates export and income growth. The historical period 1873-94 is utilized because it is relatively free of the simultaneous-equation bias which has plagued previous studies. During this period the price of silver relative to gold fell by about 50 percent, thereby implying a substantial devaluation by silver standard countries relative to gold standard countries. Support for the hyp…
Aggregate Investment and Political Instability
Although in theory the long‐run effect of uncertainty on investment is ambiguous, available econometric evidence widely supports a negative association between aggregate investment and political instability. A shortcoming of this body of evidence is that it has failed to investigate the existence and direction of causality between these two variables. This paper fills this gap by testing for such causal and negative long‐run relationship between …
Institutions and growth
This paper attempts to provide a sounder link between institutions and economic growth. It does so by i) identifying those institutions which might matter the most with respect to economic performance, ii) providing a rationale as to why they might matter, and iii) confronting that rationale with some systematic empirical evidence. We postulate that the central and common characteristic of relevant institutions is that they give agents a voice, a…
Old age security and the defense of social norms
Are old-age security and the utility of children in rural India really unimportant
Extract In their recent paper in this journal M. and Carol Vlassoff are to be commended for helping to remedy the dearth of empirical studies on the old-age security motive for children (and particularly sons) in rural areas of developing countries.(1) However, while the questionnaire which they applied to 357 ever-married men in a rural village in Maharashtra state in India is potentially useful, several of the conclusions they derive from it ar…
A model of inflation and expectations in Latin America
The efficiency of the mesta
Adversary activities and per capita income growth
Price instability and inflation
Adversities in Syria and their relation to their physical and mental health conditions as Syrian refugees in Turkey
The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which different health problems among Syrian refugees in Turkey can be traced back to three different conditions in Syria (Family Member Killed, House Damaged, and Income) as well as to Commonality among Neighbors back in Syria as well as in Turkey. As is common, the findings show their effects on mental health to be most common, especially among females, but also that (1) the effects on disea…
An Alternative Source of Measurement Error as an Explanation for the Inverted-U Hypothesis
What has orthodox development economics learned from recent experience
Instituciones y crecimiento ¿Puede el capital humano ser un vínculo
Este artículo interna identificar un vínculo más firme entre las instituciones y el crecimiento económico. Para ello, i) señala las instituciones que más importan para el desempeño económico, ii) expone los fundamentos de por qué importan más. y iii) confronta dichos fundamentos con ciertas observaciones empíricas sistemáticas. Se postula aquí que la característica central y común de las instituciones en cuestión es que brindan a los agentes la p…
A Confirmation of the Relation between Inflation and Relative Price Variability
Economic Thought, Investment Criteria, and Development Strategies in Greece
Programming the Optimal Development of the Greek Economy (1954-1961)
Exchange-Rate Movements and Economic Development in the Late Nineteenth Century
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that devaluation stimulates export and income growth. The historical period 1873-94 is utilized because it is relatively free of the simultaneous-equation bias which has plagued previous studies. During this period the price of silver relative to gold fell by about 50 percent, thereby implying a substantial devaluation by silver standard countries relative to gold standard countries. Support for the hyp…
The Selection of Industries for Regional Coordination Among Developing Countries
Modelos macroeconométricos para formular políticas de desarrollo y planeación
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Economics of Development
Economics of Development
What has orthodox development economics learned from recent experience
A model of inflation and expectations in Latin America
The Distribution of Income and its Determinants
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Short‐run changes in rural income inequality
This paper quantitatively assesses the principal determinants of the rather dramatic decline in income inequality observed in rural India between 1968–69 and 1970–71. A simple form of decomposition analysis is used to demonstrate that the most important effects of changes in weather, in technology, and in other factors on income distribution are those which occur rather indirectly as a result of overall tightening of the labour market. Whereas in…
Morphology of growth
Phillips Curves in Developing Countries
Foreign aid in the form of commodity transfers that increase the income gap between rich and poor countries
An Alternative Source of Measurement Error as an Explanation for the Inverted-U Hypothesis
Old Age Pensions and Fertility in Rural Areas of Less Developed Countries
Price instability and inflation
Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with Transactions Costs
The choice between wage labor and sharecrop contracts is analyzed in a model that avoids both the pitfalls of previous models--inefficiency of sharecropping and indeterminacy--by introducing transactions costs with appropriate nonlinearities. Plantation data from the American South provide empirical support for the hypothesized nonlinearity in transactions costs and simultaneous determination of direct supervision and contractual choice
World Inflation and the Developing Countries . William R. Cline
Are old-age security and the utility of children in rural India really unimportant
Extract In their recent paper in this journal M. and Carol Vlassoff are to be commended for helping to remedy the dearth of empirical studies on the old-age security motive for children (and particularly sons) in rural areas of developing countries.(1) However, while the questionnaire which they applied to 357 ever-married men in a rural village in Maharashtra state in India is potentially useful, several of the conclusions they derive from it ar…
The Old-Age Security Motive for Fertility
The conditions under which the old-age security motive could be expected to be significant for fertility are described. Such conditions are likely to prevail in rural areas of developing countries and especially among women. Empirical studies on the subject are evaluated and the inconclusive and contradictory nature of the findings are attributed to failures to select appropriate samples and variables. Most findings derive from studies only margi…
Adversary activities and per capita income growth
A Confirmation of the Relation between Inflation and Relative Price Variability
The relationship between the rate of inflation and its unpredictability in high inflation Latin American countries
Instability in Rural-Urban Migration
Newly observed instances of reverse migration, i.e., migration from urban to rural areas, suggest the possibility that the labor market adjustment process could be unstable. We provide a theoretical analysis of this conjecture using a Harris-Todaro-Lewis model. A bifurcation analysis is presented that shows how various stable and unstable adjustments are possible including chaotic fluctuations and how these possibilities are related to adjustment…
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