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"Keefer proposes a new approach to explain why the costs of crisis are greater in some countries than in others. He begins with the premise that many crises result from the willingness of politicians to cater to special interests at the expense of broad social interests. A parsimonious model...
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. This paper shows how dynamic pseudo-panel methods can overcome these difficulties, allowing estimation of non-linear income … Mexico and are compared to panel data estimates from a short rotating panel. The results do find evidence of nonlinearities … in household income dynamics and demonstrate large bias in the panel data estimates. Nevertheless, even after allowing …
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probability of a crisis are of the expected sign. The panel data set covers the time period 1973 through 2003 for 90 countries …
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panel data models with country-specific fixed effects. The empirical results show that the most robust growth determinants …
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training. They use a panel of large firms with unusually detailed information on the duration of training, the direct costs of …
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and of the flexibility and freedom of its labor market. But estimation of mobility using panel data is biased by the … presence of measurement error and non-random attrition from the panel. This paper shows that dynamic pseudo-panel methods can …-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in …
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Burkina Faso's Poverty Reduction Strategies (PRS) of the 2000s, which were implemented as annually rolled-over Priority Action Programs, focused on four pillars: a) accelerating broad based growth; b) expanding access to social services for the poor; c) increasing employment and...
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