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Genetic Endowments, Parental and Child Health in Rural Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the determinants of child health in rural Ethiopia for the period 1994-97 using height-for-age z-scores as measures of long-term health. The panel nature of the data helps to control for community, household and individual level heterogeneity. Unlike most previous studies,...

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The Price, Cost, Consumption and Value of Children

Bradbury, Bruce - EconWPA - 2004

Though they are related, the price, cost, consumption and value of children are not the same. This paper explores two aspects of the relationship between these concepts. Even if we restrict attention to the domain of commodity consumption, the cost of children is not the same as children's...

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Decomposition of Household Expenditure and Child Welfare in Rural Ethiopia

Kebede, Bereket - EconWPA - 2004

The methodology by Lazear and Michael (1988) is used to decompose household expenditures into that for adults and children. Some specific estimation procedures are modified and cross section-time series (panel) data are used to control for household level heterogeneity. In addition, a new and...

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Rosca Participation in Benin : a Commitment Issue

Dagnelie, Olivier; LeMay, Philippe - EconWPA - 2005

In the light of first-hand data from a Beninese urban household survey in Cotonou, we investigate several motives aiming to explain participation in Rotating Savings and Credit ASsociations. We provide empirical findings which indicate that individuals use their participation in a rosca as a...

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Finance Constraints and Inventory Investment: Empirical Tests with Panel Data

Cunningham, Rose - EconWPA - 2004

The author empirically tests two aspects of the interaction between financial variables and inventory investment: negative cash flow and finance constraints due to asymmetric information. This is one of the first studies of inventory investment and finance constraints using Canadian data. A...

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“Dynamic Effects of Migrant Remittances on Growth: An Econometric Model with an Application to Mediterranean Countries”. Discussion Paper, No. 74, KEPE, Athens, 2002.

GLYTSOS, NICHOLAS - EconWPA - 2005

investigating the impact of remittances on consumption, investment, imports and output. It estimates short and long-run multiplier … effects of exogenous shocks of remittances, with data from five Mediterranean countries. The analysis reveals a uniform … changes, in the sense that the good done to growth by rising remittances is not as great as the bad done by falling …

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A Model of Remittance Determination Applied to Middle East and North Africa Countries

GLYTSOS, NICHOLAS - EconWPA - 2005

the migrant and his family, treating remittances as an endogenous variable in the migration system. Behind this model is … present or future consumption of remittances. The model has two purposes: estimate the relative significance of behavioural …

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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions

Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005

This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and … Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the … Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico and the U.S. are used. The results indicate that remittances respond more to changes in …

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