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Who carries the burden of reproductive health and AIDS programs? : evidence from OECD donor countries
Dalen, Hendrik P. van - 2005
panel data estimation. On an aggregated scale small donors 'exploit' the large donors: large donors give more resources than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348349
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New evidence on fungibility at the aggregate level
Marć, Łukasz - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723004
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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What drives donor funding in population assistance programs?
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Reuser, Mieke - 2005
population assistance. This global effort has so far not sufficiently been supported by donor funds. Dynamic panel estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343951
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The causal links between aid and government expenditures
Marć, Łukasz - 2014
The most recent literature on aid effectiveness finds a positive effect of aid on growth. To the extent that aid goes through the budget, this either reflects an aid-financed increase in government expenditures (quantity effect) or an improvement in the use of government resources as a result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231655
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Health Aid, Governance and Infant Mortality
Doucouliagos, Hristos - 2019
countries. Our analysis applies the long difference estimator and instrumental variable estimation, with aid instrumented by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870328
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Making Aid Work : Governance and Decentralization
Epstein, Gil S. - 2015
Donor aid organizations (DAOs) are multi-layered and multi-dimensional bureaucracies with many departments trying to find solutions to problems for countries, investing staff resources and effort into having an effect. A department may come into conflict with other departments because of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013031606
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146478
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Household Finances and the 'Big Five' Personality Traits
Brown, Sarah - 2011
We explore the relationship between household finances and personality traits from an empirical perspective. Specifically, using individual level data drawn from the British Household Panel Survey, we analyse the influence of personality traits on financial decision-making at the individual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117198
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Robust Estimation of Wage Dispersion with Censored Data : An Application to Occupational Earnings Risk and Risk Attitudes
Pollmann, Daniel - 2012
We present a semiparametric method to estimate group-level dispersion, which is particularly effective in the presence of censored data. We apply this procedure to obtain measures of occupation-specific wage dispersion using top-coded administrative wage data from the German IAB Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107726