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Does microfinance change informal lending in village economies? Evidence from Bangladesh
Islam, Asadul; Nguyen, Chau; Smyth, Russell - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 50 (2015) C, pp. 141-156
This paper examines how availability of microfinance influences households’ borrowing from informal sources in village … economies. It uses a unique household level panel data set, which spans more than two decades (1987–2008), from rural Bangladesh …. We find that households’ access to microfinance reduces the incidence of borrowing from informal sources, but not the …
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Evaluating Free-Choice Climate Education Interventions Applying Propensity Score Matching
Gaus, Hansjoerg; Mueller, Christoph Emanuel - In: Evaluation Review 35 (2011) 6, pp. 673-722
Background and objectives. The majority of environmental education takes place in informal settings, of which so-called free-choice learning is typical. What is understood by this is a kind of learning which is self-determined and driven by the needs and interests of the learner. The...
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Empowerment Through Microfinance: The Relation Between Loan Cycle and Level of Empowerment
Weber, Olaf; Ahmad, Adnan - In: World Development 62 (2014) C, pp. 75-87
Does microfinance support the empowerment of female borrowers? Results of studies analyzing microfinance and … empowerment delivered mixed results. In order to explore whether microfinance influences empowerment, the paper compares women in … higher loan cycles of a Pakistani microfinance institution with those in the first loan cycle regarding their empowerment …
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Farmer training in off-season vegetables : effects on income and pesticide use in Bangladesh
Hanson, Peter; Uddin, Md. Nasir; Ahmad, Shahabuddin - In: Food policy : economics planning and politics of food … 61 (2016), pp. 132-140
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Chapter 62 A Practitioner's Approach to Estimating Intertemporal Relationships Using Longitudinal Data: Lessons from Applications in Wage Dynamics
MaCurdy, Thomas - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4057-4167). 2007
This chapter presents a unified set of estimation methods for fitting a rich array of models describing dynamic relationships within a longitudinal data setting. The discussion surveys approaches for characterizing the micro dynamics of continuous dependent variables both over time and across...
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HAC estimation in spatial panels
Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 60-65
We propose a HAC estimator for the covariance matrix of the fixed effects estimator in a panel data model with unobserved fixed effects and errors that are both serially and spatially correlated.
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Viewpoint: An extended class of instrumental variables for the estimation of causal effects
Chalak, Karim; White, Halbert - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 44 (2011) 1, pp. 1-51
We examine how structural systems can yield observed variables instrumental in identifying and estimating causal effects. We provide an exhaustive characterization of potentially identifying conditional exogeneity relationships and demonstrate how structural relations determine exogeneity and...
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On spatial processes and asymptotic inference under near-epoch dependence
Jenish, Nazgul; Prucha, Ingmar R. - In: Journal of Econometrics 170 (2012) 1, pp. 178-190
The development of a general inferential theory for nonlinear models with cross-sectionally or spatially dependent data has been hampered by a lack of appropriate limit theorems. To facilitate a general asymptotic inference theory relevant to economic applications, this paper first extends the...
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Energy consumption and output: Evidence from a panel of 14 oil-exporting countries
Mohammadi, Hassan; Parvaresh, Shahrokh - In: Energy Economics 41 (2014) C, pp. 41-46
We examine the long-run relation and short-run dynamics between energy consumption and output in a panel of 14 oil-exporting countries over 1980–2007. Panel unit root tests, which account for common cross-sectional factors, fail to reject non-stationarity in both variables. Thus, we explore...
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Real estate market and financial stability in US metropolitan areas: A dynamic model with spatial effects
Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa; Canepa, Alessandra - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 49 (2014) C, pp. 129-146
This paper investigates spatio-temporal variations in ex-post credit risk in the United States, as a function of real estate prices, loan purchases made by government sponsored enterprises, and a set of local characteristics during the recent housing boom and bust.
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