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The Effect of Direct Foreign Investment on Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data in Emerging Economies
Konings, Jozef - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper uses firm level panel data to investigate empirically the effects of direct foreign investment (DFI) on the productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland. To this end a unique firm level panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458161
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The Economics of Population Policy for Carbon Emissions Reduction in Developing Countries
Wheeler, David; Hammer, Dan - eSocialSciences - 2010
Female education and family planning are both critical for sustainable development, and they obviously merit expanded … family planning and female education will suffer from financing deficits that will leave millions of women unserved in the … coming decades. Since both activities affect fertility, population growth, and carbon emissions, they may also provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740422
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493864
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The Socio-Economic Determinants Behind Infant Mortality and Maternal Mortality
Innovation, Indian Trust for; ITISC, Social Change - eSocialSciences - 2009
A qualitative study was conducted in the six states of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and Haryana to understand the socio-economic, cultural and demographic features accelatrating Infant Mortality rate and Maternal Mortality Rate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008496178
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Managing Prolonged Low Fertility: The Case of Singapore
Nandy, Amarendu; Asher, Mukul. G - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper analyzes Singapore’s multi-pronged approach to managing prolonged low fertility which has led to … fertility levels (official Total Fertility Rate was 1.29 in 2007, a rate at which population is reduced by 50% in 45 years), as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999343
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The Gender Gap in Mathematics: Evidence from Low-and-Middle Income Countries
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Giorgi, Giacomo de; Hansen, David; … - eSocialSciences - 2012
Is there a gender gap in mathematics across many low- and middle-income countries? A detailed, comparable test score data is used to analyze this. Micro level data on school performance linked to household demographics shows that the gender gap appears to increase with age. It is shown that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945217
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The Impact of Parental Death on Child Well-being: Evidence from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Gas, Ava Gail; Frankenberg, Elizabeth; Suriastini, Wayan; … - eSocialSciences - 2013
Identifying the impact of parental death on the well-being of children is complicated because parental death is likely to be correlated with other, unobserved, factors that affect child well-being. Population-representative longitudinal data collected in Aceh, Indonesia, before and after the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945343
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Analytic and Strategic Review Paper: International Perspectives on Early Child Development
Maggi, Stefania; Irwin, Lori G.; Siddiqi, Arjumand; … - eSocialSciences - 2006
The present work builds on the affirmed desire of the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) to be judged on both its scientific rigor and the policy implications that the Commission’s work will generate. It contributes to the general discussion on the social determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341696
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Thinking 'Small' and the Understanding of Poverty: Maymana and Mofizul's Story
Hulme, David - eSocialSciences - 2009
Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets, plans and ambitions. While recognising some of the benefits of such approaches this paper argues that researchers should counterbalance this through ‘thinking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341746
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Book Review: Inside the Indian Family
Patel, Tulsi - eSocialSciences - 2008
Review of: Democracy in the Family: Insights from India. Edited by Joy Deshmukh-Randive Sage Publications. New Delhi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319357