A simple model of inequality, occupational choice, and development

By Maitreesh Ghatak, N. Jiang. 2002

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Entrepreneurship and Financial Frictions: A Macrodevelopment Perspective (2015, background): “First, there is a great variety of entrepreneurs, who differ considerably in the productivity of their enterprises and the optimal scale of the technologies or sectors in which they operate.”
Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality (2003, unknown): “This, in turn, is decided by the curvature of η(W ), which through equations (15) and (16), determines the shape of intended and accidental bequests.”
Entrepreneurship Education and Entry into Self-Employment Among University Graduates (2016, methodology): “These are measured based on the TIPI scale developed by Gosling et al. (2003). The scale is known to have somewhat diminished psychometric properties, but was designed to study personality dimensions in situations when the use of more extensive measures is not feasible.”
Uneven Growth: A Framework for Research in Development Economics (2010, background): “Finally, and perhaps the most-studied of these three points, there are the fundamental diculties of ecient occupational choice when capital markets are missing or imperfect (for example, Banerjee and Newman (1993), Galor and Zeira (1993), Ljungqvist (1993), Ghatak and Jiang (2002) and Mookherjee a”
Cheap Children and the Persistence of Poverty (2001, unknown): “Banerjee and Newman (1993), Galor and Zeira (1993), Benabou (1996), Durlauf (1996a), Piketty (1997), Maoz and Moav (1999), Ghatak and Jiang (2002) and Mookherjee and Ray (2003), among others, show that credit constraints combined with non-convexities in the technology prevent investment by the…”