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Evaluating environmental programs : the perspective of modern evaluation research

Frondel, Manuel - 2001

Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their … and statistics literature on program evaluation could be utilized to advance considerably in this context. In particular …, the construction of a credible counterfactual situation is at the heart of the formal statistical evaluation problem. Even …

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Enhancing objectivity and decision relevance : a better framework for evaluating cohesion policies

Heinemann, Friedrich; Asatryan, Zareh; Bachtrögler, Julia - 2024

By international comparison as well as compared to other EU policies, the EU‘s Cohesion Policy (CP) evaluation system … is far developed and institutionalized. This paper analyses the remaining gaps and shortcomings in the CP evaluation … presence of a broad and imprecise CP objective function emerges as a key challenge for evaluations. The evaluation culture is …

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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992

Miquel, Ruth - 2000

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

unleashing technological change and through rituals, legal institutions, political economy, and conflict. Synthesizing a disjoint …

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Chinese aid in Africa : attitudes and conflict

Sardoschau, Sulin; Jarotschkin, Alexandra - 2023

This study examines Chinese aid projects’ impact on conflict and perceptions of China in 820 African districts from … 2000 to 2012. We show that a 10% increase in Chinese aid projects results in a 6% increase in conflict incidents. This rise … Africans attribute the rise in conflict to the interaction of resource influx and local politics, rather than to China itself …

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On the emissions-inequality trade-off in energy taxation : evidence on the German car fuel tax

Nikodinoska, Dragana; Schröder, Carsten - 2015

By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...

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Is household shock a boon or bane to the utilisation of preventive healthcare for children? Evidence from Uganda

Baulia, Susmita - 2018

A stylised fact in the development literature is that resource-constrained households in low-income countries invest very little in preventive healthcare. This paper investigates how the households trade off investment in their children's preventive healthcare during idiosyncratic shocks when...

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A review of some recent developments in the modelling and seasonal adjustment of infra-monthly time series

Webel, Karsten - 2022

Infra-monthly time series have increasingly appeared on the radar of official statistics in recent years, mostly as a consequence of a general digital transformation process and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Many of those series are seasonal and thus in need for seasonal...

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Towards seasonal adjustment of infra-monthly time series with JDemetra+

Webel, Karsten; Smyk, Anna - 2023

Infra-monthly economic time series have become increasingly popular in official statistics in recent years. This evolution has been largely fostered by official statistics’ digital transformation during the last decade. The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020 has added fuel to the fire as many...

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Revisions in concurrent seasonal adjustments of daily and weekly economic time series

Webel, Karsten - 2025

The COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 has fostered in many countries the development of new weekly economic indices for the timely tracking of pandemic-related turmoils and other forms of rapid economic changes. Such indices often utilise information from daily and weekly economic time series that...

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