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A somewhat warmer climate would probably reduce mortality in the United States and provide Americans with valuable benefits. Regressions of death rates in Washington, DC, and in some 89 urban counties scattered across the nation on climate and demographic variables demonstrate that warmer...
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Evaluation quality is a function of methodological and data inputs. This paper argues that there has been inadequate … investment in methodology, often resulting in low quality evaluation outputs. With an increased focus on results, evaluation … people, so attention to sound methodology matters. This paper explores three areas in which evaluation can be improved. First …
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Based on administrative data from the federal employment office in Germany, we apply matching techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function of temporary agency work for the unemployed, i.e. its short-run and long-run effects on their future employment prospects. Our results show that...
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This paper evaluates bank exit regimes in selected financial centres using econometric methods. The focus is on bank exit regimes applicable to commercial banks in New York, London, Frankfurt, Helsinki and Tokyo in 1998–2002. Bank exit regimes are studied from the perspective of bank creditors...
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of an evaluation lies not in its (apparent) incontrovertibility but rather in its clarity of assumptions and in its …
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Très souvent perçue en tant qu’instrument de jugement a posteriori, l’évaluation a entre autre été conçue comme méthode … le bilan d’une situation. Dans la pratique, l’évaluation, appliquée sous une forme opérationnelle, suppose l’emploi de …’appliquent à ce même objet. L’évaluation reste donc étroitement liée à des notions purement théoriques et se heurte encore à des …
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This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...
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theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust …
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This paper analyzes patterns of foreign direct investment in India. We investigate how labor conflict, credit … decisions and labor unrest simultaneously. Results indicate that labor unrest is endogenous across the states of India, and has …
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