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Early-life famine exposure, hunger recall and later-life health
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021 - This version: Monday 14th June, 2021
We use newly collected individual-level hunger recall information from the China Family Panel Survey to estimate the causal effect of undernourishment on later-life health. We develop a Two-Sample Instrumental Variable (TSIV) estimator that can deal with heterogeneous samples. We find a...
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Limitations on de-collectivisation in central European agriculture
Bezemer, Dirk Johan - 2000
Following formal privatisation of farm land and assets in CentralEurope, the change in agriculturalproduction structures has been both more limited and different thanwas initially expected. In this paper, thetheoretical reasons underlying those expectations are reviewed. Analternative...
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Evaluation of development policy : treatment versus program effects
Elbers, Chris; Gunning, Jan Willem - 2009 - Revised August 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
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009723008
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Embeddedness of entrepreneurs in rural areas : a comparative rough set data analysis
Akgün, Aliye Ahu; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan Levent, Tüzin; … - 2009
This study aims to identify the critical factor(s) that determine the embeddedness level (EL) of rural entrepreneurs …. In order to achieve this aim, existing applied studies on the embeddedness of entrepreneurs undertaken in different rural … experimental study is the first RSDA approach that compares the results of several rural case studies and infers general induction …
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Embeddedness of entrepreneurs in rural areas : a comparative rough set data analysis
Akgün, Aliye Ahu; Nijkamp, Peter; Baycan Levent, Tüzin; … - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874428
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2007
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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2011
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The impact of trade liberalization on the return to education in Vietnam : wage versus employment effect
Oostendorp, Remco H.; Doan Hong Quang - 2010
use four large-scale representative household surveys from Vietnam for the period 1998-2006 to estimate the impact of … that the impact was large in Vietnam but is severely underestimated if changes in employment opportunities are ignored. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386195
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Growing richer and taller : explaining change in the distribution of child nutritional status during Vietnam's economic boom
O'Donnell, Owen; López Nicolás, Ángel; Van … - 2006
Over a five-year period in the 1990s Vietnam experienced annual economic growth of more than 8% and a decrease of 15 … covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …
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