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Evaluation of Development Policy: Treatment versus Program Effects

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009

There is a growing interest, notably in development economics, in extending project evaluation methods to the evaluation of multiple interventions (“programs”). In program evaluations one is interested in the aggregate impact of a program rather than the effect on individual beneficiaries....

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Evaluation of Development Programs: Using Regressions to assess the Impact of Complex Interventions

Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2012

presence of selection effects and treatment heterogeneity. As an example we present an estimate of the TPE for a rural water …

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The Impact of Later Tracking on Mortality by Parental Income in Finland

Ravesteijn, Bastian; van Kippersluis, Hans; Avendano, … - 2017

We investigate whether later educational tracking reduced the intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic disparities in mortality in Finland,where the tracking age was raised from 11 to 16 in the 1970s. We use a difference-in-differences approach that exploits the gradual rollout of the...

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - 2013

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...

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Corruption and public spending on education and health

Swaleheen, Mushfiq-us; Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben; Temimi, Akram - In: Applied economics letters 26 (2019) 4, pp. 321-325

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From European to Asian leadership in the economic efficiency of the world air industry

Rey Legidos, M. Belén; Inglada López de Sabando, Vicente - In: Applied economics letters 16 (2009) 1/3, pp. 203-209

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Innovation rankings : good, bad or revealing?

Cai, Yuezhou; Hanley, Aoife - In: Applied economics letters 21 (2014) 4/6, pp. 325-328

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Is it better to support tourism after pandemic regionally or globally? : case of European Union from the socio-economic perspective

Dźogan, Milan; Lacko, Roman; Hajduová, Zuzana - In: Applied economics letters 30 (2023) 5, pp. 657-662

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The impact of regional trade agreements on trade efficiency in East Asia : a stochastic frontier gravity approach

Zhu, Haoliang - In: Applied economics letters 31 (2024) 18, pp. 1767-1772

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Thought for Food: Understanding Educational Disparities in Food Consumption

Koç, Hale; van Kippersluis, Hans - 2015

discriminate between the theoretical parameters. Differences in health knowledge appear to be responsible for the greatest part of … the education disparity in diet. However, when faced with the most explicit health information regarding diet, lower … educated individuals still state choices that imply a lower concern for negative health consequences. This is consistent with a …

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