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Informal sector and corruption : an empirical investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2011

India is a country characterized by a huge informal sector. At the same time, it is a country where the extent of … sector ; corruption ; state domestic product ; governance ; India …

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Public and private sector jobs, unreported income and consumption gap in India : evidence from micro-data

Kar, Saibal; Roy, Poulomi; Saha, Sarani - 2012

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …

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Birth spacing, fertility and neonatal mortality in India : dynamics, frailty and fecundity

Bhalotra, Sonia (contributor); Soest, Arthur van (contributor) - 2006

A dynamic panel data model of neonatal mortality and birth spacing is analyzed, accounting for causal effects of birth spacing on subsequent mortality and of mortality on the length of the next birth interval, while controlling for unobserved heterogeneity in mortality (frailty) and birth...

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Lockdown and rural joblessness in India : gender inequality in employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …

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Medical technology and the production of health care

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - 2011

This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...

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When the early bird catches the worm : the impact of training in retail

Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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Maximum likelihood estimation and lagrange multiplier tests for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with spatial lag and spatial errors : an application to hedonic housing prices in Paris

Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges - 2010

This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated via spatial errors terms and via a spatial lag dependent variable and where the...

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Health care expenditure and income in the OECD reconsidered : evidence from panel data

Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco - 2010

This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of 20 OECD countries observed over the period 1971-2004. In particular, the paper studies the non-stationarity and cointegration properties between health care spending and income....

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African leaders : their education abroad and FDI flows

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2010

Leaders are critical to a country's success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis...

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Quantile factor models

Chen, Liang; Dolado, Juan J.; Gonzalo, Jesús - 2020

Quantile factor models (QFM) represent a new class of factor models for high-dimensional panel data. Unlike approximate factor models (AFM), which only extract mean factors, QFM also allow unobserved factors to shift other relevant parts of the distributions of observables. We propose a quantile...

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