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This paper studies how response times vary between unlabeled binary choice occasions in a stated choice (SC) experiment, with alternatives differing with respect to in-vehicle travel time and travel cost. The pattern of response times is interpreted as an indicator of the cognitive processes...
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This book approaches the elementary statistical concepts. It presents also some statistical methods of collecting and analysis of data.
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The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is cross national: the questionnaire is identical across all participating countries and, because of the modest size of the sample in each country, it is usually not feasible to proceed to solely national use of the data. Moreover, as...
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The majority of African countries, included Senegal, continue to face widespread poverty. The objective of poverty …, this paper examines the linkage between disaggregated government expenditures and poverty using the most recent poverty … suitable, complete and reliable way of measuring poverty, to overcome the limitations of one-dimensional framework, and better …
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Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions on most goods and services. This paper analyses the potential impacts of such extensive trade liberalisation for Peru. The focus is on possible short-term welfare impacts and...
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This paper uses survey data collected from Kalaymyo, a small urban city in North West Myanmar, to characterize firms and analyze the constraints limiting their growth. The level of firm ownership is very high but most firms are small, informal, operated out of the home, earning low income and...
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We examine the relationship between growth in labor productivity and poverty reduction through the lens of changes in … the structure of output and employment. Combining state-level data from India on poverty with state-level data on output … productivity sector is an important channel through which increases in aggregate productivity translate into poverty reduction. We …
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest … important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined significantly more than it declined in …
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implemented one of the biggest poverty reduction programs entitled ‘Socio-economic Development for the Communes Facing Greatest …-capita income. A particularly important result is that poverty among minority households in treatment communes declined …
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Indian economic development in the recent period has attracted both favourable and unfavourable attention abroad. The development community including academics and activists regards the record of the Indian economy during the last twenty years as being extremely good by international standards....
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