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Nowcasting business cycles using toll data

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Nowcasting has been a challenge in the recent economic crisis. We introduce the Toll Index, a new monthly indicator for … business cycle forecasting and demonstrate its relevance using German data. The index measures the monthly transportation … coincident with production activity due to the prevalence of just-in-time delivery. The Toll Index is a good early indicator of …

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Measuring the statistical capacity of nations

Cameron, Grant J.; Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dinc, Mustafa; … - 2020

The international development community has used the World Bank's Statistical Capacity Index since its inception in … internationally comparable data. This paper reviews measurement methodologies, posits desired attributes, and presents theoretical and … empirical frameworks to propose a new, improved index to monitor progress in the statistical capacity of nations. The paper …

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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor); … - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor); … - 2005

manufacturing industry. -- globalization ; economic integration ; composite index ; manufacturing ; India …

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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles (contributor) - 2005

This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...

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Data scarcity and poverty measurement

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021

Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide a broad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation in data-scarce environments, update recent...

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Evaluating the success of President Johnson's war on poverty : revisiting the historical record using a full-income poverty measure

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Corinth, Kevin; Elwell, James; … - 2019

We evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure fully captures poverty reductions based on the standard that President Johnson...

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Trust and the choice between housing and financial assets : evidence from Spanish households

Attar, Mayssun el; Poschke, Markus - 2010

Trusting behavior has been shown to affect households' portfolio choice between risky and risk-free financial assets. We extend the analysis of the effect of trust on portfolio choice to include the dominant component of households' portfolios, real estate. In a simple model, we show how the...

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Do you even crypto, bro? : cryptocurrencies in household finance

Weber, Michael; Candia, Bernardo; Coibion, Olivier; … - 2023

Using repeated large-scale surveys of U.S. households, we study the cryptocurrency investment decisions and motives of households relative to other financial assets. Cryptocurrency holders tend to be young, white, male and more libertarian relative to non-crypto holders. They expect much higher...

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Measuring poverty dynamics with synthetic panels based on repeated cross-sections

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2022

Panel data are rarely available for developing countries. Departing from traditional pseudo-panel methods that require multiple rounds of cross-sectional data to study poverty mobility at the cohort level, we develop a procedure that works with as few as two survey rounds and produces point...

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