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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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Evidence-based policy or beauty contest? : an LLM-based meta-analysis of EU cohesion policy evaluations

Asatryan, Zareh; Birkholz, Carlo; Heinemann, Friedrich - 2024

Independent and high-quality evaluations of government policies are an important input for designing evidence-based policy. Lack of incentives and institutions to write such evaluations, on the other hand, carry the risk of turning the system into a costly beauty contest. We study one of the...

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Eating habits, food consumption, and health : the role of early life experiences

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Olivieri, Elisabetta; Triviza, … - 2023

This study explores the long-run effects of a temporary scarcity of a consumption good on preferences towards that good once the shock is over. Specifically, we focus on individuals who were children during World War II and assess the consequences of the temporary drop in meat availability they...

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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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Long-term health effects on the next generation of Ramadan fasting during pregnancy

Ewijk, Reyn van (contributor) - 2009

Each year, many pregnant women fast from dawn to sunset during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Medical theory suggests that this may have negative long-term health effects on their offspring. Building upon the work of Almond and Mazumder (2008), and using Indonesian crosssectional data, I...

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