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The pungent smell of "red herrings" : subsoil assets, rents, volatility and the resource curse

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Poelhekke, Steven - 2010

Brunnschweiler and Bulte (2008) provide cross-country evidence that the resource curse is a "red herring" once one corrects for endogeneity of resource exports and allows resource abundance affect growth. Their results show that resource exports are no longer significant while the value of...

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Coerced labor in the cotton sector : how global commodity prices (don't) transmit to the poor

Danzer, Alexander M.; Grundke, Robert - 2016 - This Version: May 2016

's geographic variation in the suitability for cotton production combined with a surge in the world market price of cotton in 2010 … command political capital to coerce workers. The expansion in land attributed to cotton production led to increases in labor … demand and wages for cotton pickers; however, the price hike benefits only workers on entrepreneurial private farms, whereas …

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Use of ICTs : what effect on the quality of youth employment in Cameroon?

Meka’a, Cosmas Bernard; Njiepue Nouffeussie, Astride … - 2023

quality of youth employment in Cameroon. The study uses data from the Cameroonian Household Survey (CHS 4) carried out by the … National Institute of Statistics of Cameroon (NIS) in 2014. The quality of employment is apprehended here by five of its …

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Do better schools lead to more growth? : cognitive skills, economic outcomes, and causation

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

We provide evidence that the robust association between cognitive skills and economic growth reflects a causal effect of cognitive skills and supports the economic benefits of effective school policy. We develop a new common metric that allows tracking student achievement across countries, over...

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Spend-and-tax : a panel data investigation for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009

Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend-and-tax causality for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and...

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Bootstrap panel Granger-causality between government budget and external deficits for the EU

Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009

We investigate the existence of Granger-causality between current account and government budget balances over the period 1970-2007, for different EU and OECD country groupings. We use the panel-data approach of Kónya (2006), which is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific...

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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices : a non-technical guide

Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...

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Did US consumers 'save for a rainy day' before the Great Recession?

Anundsen, André Kallåk; Nymoen, Ragnar - 2015

The 'saving for a rainy day' hypothesis implies that households' saving decisions reflect that they can (rationally) predict future income declines. The empirical relevance of this hypothesis plays a key role in discussions of fiscal policy multipliers and it holds under the null that the...

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Islamic banking, credit and economic growth : some empirical evidence

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Helmi, Mohamad Husam - 2016

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets of seven emerging countries, the first without Islamic banks, and the second with a dual banking system including both Islamic and conventional banks. Unlike previous studies,...

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On the linkages between stock prices and exchange rates : evidence from the banking crisis of 2007-2010

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Hunter, John; Ali, Faek Menla - 2013

This study examines the nature of the linkages between stock market prices and exchange rates in six advanced economies, namely the US, the UK, Canada, Japan, the euro area, and Switzerland, using data on the banking crisis between 2007 and 2010. Bivariate GARCH-BEKK models are estimated...

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