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An Analysis of Household's Tobacco Consumption Decisions : Evidence from India
John, Rijo M - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2004
Tobacco products such as bidi and cigarette, both of which are smoked, cater to different kinds of households in India … patterns, socio-economic distribution and the household choice of a variety of tobacco products across rural and urban India … products to consume. Household level data from National Sample Survey in India for the year 1999-2000, which has information on …
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Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco and Other Addictive Goods in India
John, Rijo M - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fifteen per cent of the tobacco users who … elasticities showed that the own price elasticity estimates of various addictive goods in India ranged between -0.5 to -1.0 with … substitutes at least in urban India. We also observed that, over a five year period, the addictive goods such as bidis and leaf …
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Technical Efficiency in Agricultural Production and Its Determinants : An Exploratory Study at the District Level
Shanmugam, K. R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Given the importance of agriculture to the well being of a large percentage of Indias population, it becomes important to study how improvements can be made in the productivity of this sector. This study attempts to estimate the technical efficiency a measure of how well inputs are being used...
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Indirect Inference for Dynamic Panel Models
Gouriéroux, Christian; Phillips, Peter C. B.; Yu, Jun - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
It is well-known that maximum likelihood (ML) estimation of the autoregressive parameter of a dynamic panel data model with .xed eects is inconsistent under .xed time series sample size (T) and large cross section sample size (N) asymptotics. The estimation bias is particularly relevant in...
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An Analysis of Life Insurance Demand Determinants for Selected Asian Economies and India
Sen, Subir - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
panel are significant for India for the period 1965 to 2004. Some variables were strongly capable of determining life …
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Analyzing and Forecasting Business Cycles in a Small Open Economy : A Dynamic Factor Model for Singapore
Chow, Hwee Kwan; Choy, Keen Meng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
A dynamic factor model is applied to a large panel dataset of Singapores macroeconomic variables and global economic indicators with the initial objective of analyzing business cycles in a small open economy. The empirical results suggest that four common factors are present in the quarterly...
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Dynamic Treatment Effect Analysis of TV Effects on Child Cognitive Development
Huang, Fali; Lee, Myoung-jae - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
We investigate whether TV watching at ages 6-7 and 8-9 affects cognitive development measured by math and reading scores at ages 8-9 using a rich childhood longitudinal sample from NLSY79. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child-specific factor, endogeneity of TV...
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REGIONAL OPENNESS, INCOME GROWTH AND DISPARITY ACROSS MAJOR INDIAN STATES DURING 1980-2004
Maiti, Dibyendu; Marjit, Sugata - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
major states in India during 1980-2004 but at different rates resulting to the rise of regional disparity and the regional …
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Health, Technical Efficiency And Agricultural Production In Indian Districts
Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; Shanmugam, K.R.; Ruger, … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
In this study, we attempt to quantify the effect of improved population health on technical efficiency in agricultural production. Using data for over 260 districts in 15 Indian states, we employ the random-coefficients technique to estimate a Cobb-Douglas production function, computing overall...
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E-Finance Development in Korea
Ahn, Choong Young; Yang, Doo Yong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
E-finance in Korea has evolved since the late 1980s, when developments in information and telecommunication technology started to be applied to the financial industry. Since the 1990s, e-finance has led a paradigm shift in the financial industry as financial transactions in computer-based tools...
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