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Impacts of COVID-19 on household welfare in Tunisia
Kokas, Deeksha; López Acevedo, Gladys; El Lahga, … - 2020
COVID-19 is likely to have a large impact on the welfare of Tunisian households. First, some individuals might be more vulnerable to contracting the disease because their living conditions or jobs make them more susceptible to meeting others or practicing social distancing. Lack of adequate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389785
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Does official development assistance affect donor's export? : case of Korea
Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries …. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and its export effectiveness are highly interrelated, this kind of simultaneous … squares estimation method leads to accounting for two-ways causal relationships between ODA and export while the endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612988
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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity.
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013455237
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Differential and distributional effects of energy efficiency surveys : evidence from electricity consumption
Kniesner, Thomas J.; Rustamov, Galib - 2015
Our research investigates the magnitude of the effect of residential energy efficiency audit programs on later household electricity consumption. These programs are designed to increase awareness of household energy consumption with personalized feedback that will eventually lead to behavioral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407824
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When banana import restrictions lead to exports : a tale of cyclones and quarantine policies
Chia Chiun Ko; Frijters, Paul - 2014
have turned into a particular form of export promotion. We set up a model in which there is free domestic entry, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250023
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Oil exports and the Iranian economy
Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2009
This paper develops a long run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focus on short...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909263
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Brexit had no measurable effect on Irish exporters
Elsner, Benjamin; Flaherty, Eoin T.; Haller, Stefanie - 2024
and sales compared to more exposed firms. We do not find significant differences for export volumes to the UK or elsewhere …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015048791
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Multidimensional targeting and evaluation : a general framework with an application to a poverty program in Bangladesh
Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - 2013
Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010125890
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Program evaluation and spillover effects
Angelucci, Manuela; Di Maro, Vincenzo - 2015
This paper is a practical guide for researchers and practitioners who want to understand spillover effects in program evaluation. The paper defines spillover effects and discusses why it is important to measure them. It explains how to design a field experiment to measure the average effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517040
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Experimental evidence on the long-term impacts of a youth training program
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Kluve, Jochen; Ripani, Laura; Shady, … - 2015
This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the training including long-term - labor market trajectories of young people - and, to the best of our...
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