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Does the IV estimator establish causality? Re-examining Chinese fertility-growth relationship
Abeysinghe, Tilak; Jiaying, Gu - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
-way relationship from births to growth if the panel analysis is carried out with the annual data. Although falling birth rates in China …
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Can Insurance Reduce Catastrophic Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure?
Joglekar, Rama - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
In India, the out-of-pocket health expenditure by households accounts for around 70 percent of the total expenditure on … health. Large out-of-pocket payments may reduce consumption expenditure on other goods and services and push households into … poverty. Recently, health insurance has been considered as one of the possible instruments in reducing impoverishing effects …
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What Determines the Gradient among Children in Developing Countries? Evidence from Indonesia
Park, Cheolsung - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
12 years old. Schooling, on the other hand, is found to have a positive impact on health status of children from low …-SES families but little impact on health status of high-SES children. It weakens the gradient among school-age children. …I estimate the gradient among children 0 to 14 years old across different age groups using data from Indonesia. I find …
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The Balance of Payments Impact of the Food and Fuel Price Shocks on Low-Income African Countries : A Country-by-Country Assessment
International Monetary Fund - 2008
This note discusses the implications of the price shocks for the balance of payments of low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The response by bilateral donors and multilateral institutions will, in practice, need to be country-specific. To this end, the note identifies a list of 18...
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Risk, Resources, and Education : Public Versus Private Financing of Higher Education
International Monetary Fund - 1999
This paper develops a public education scheme that takes uncertainty aspects of private educational investments explicitly into account. In the author’s framework, the social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational...
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Do IMF-Supported Programs Work? : A Survey of the Cross-Country Empirical Evidence
International Monetary Fund - 1998
Over the last two decades a number of cross-country empirical studies have been undertaken to assess whether IMF-supported adjustment programs have led to an improved balance of payments and current account balance, lower inflation, and higher growth. These studies use a variety of methodologies...
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The More Kids, The Less Mom’s Divvy : Impact of Childbirth on Intrahousehold Resource Allocation
Fujii, Tomoki; Isikawa, Ryuichiro - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
focus on private goods to track the changes in intrahousehold resource allocation. Our estimation results show that the … associated with at least 2.6 percentage points decrease in womens private expenditure share. Our estimation results reject the …
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Succession in Family Businesses of Pakistan : Kinship Culture and Islamic Inheritance Law
Afghan, Nasir; Wiqar, Tayyaba - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Family businesses are growing and turning into complex business groups, transforming from family controlled and managed to family owned and professionally managed public listed businesses. Hence, successful succession of a business and development of future successors are becoming the key...
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A Social Accounting Matrix for Pakistan, 2001-02 : Methodology and Results
Dorosh, Paul; Niazi, Muhammad Khan; Nazli, Hina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper describes the structure and construction of a social accounting matrix (SAM) for Pakistan for 2001-02. A SAM is an internally consistent extended set of national accounts that disaggregates value-added in each production activity into payments to various factors (e.g., land, labour,...
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Awareness and the Demand of Safe Drinking Water Practices
Ahmed, Eatzaz; Sattar, Abdul - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The demand for environmental goods is often low in developing countries. The major causes are awareness regarding the contamination of water and poverty, but less attention has been paid to the former reason. We use a household survey from Hyderabad city and estimate the contribution of...
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