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We study the long-run and multi-generational effects of a mass education program in Vietnam during the First Indochina War (1946-1954). Difference-in-difference estimations indicate that the children of mothers exposed to the education program had an average of 0.9 more years of education. We...
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grants and remittances and the equilibrium real exchange rate in Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries using panel techniques …. The results indicate that grants and remittances are not associated, in the long run, with an appreciation of the real … and remittances may be serving to ease supply constraints or boost productivity in the non-tradable sector in t …
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We investigate the impact of remittances on public debt sustainability and detail how the traditional debt-to-GDP ratio … remittance inflows. The main result is that inclusion of remittances into the traditional debt sustainability analysis alters the …
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This paper tests the association between the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries' financial and remittance outflows and regional growth in the Middle East. The findings, based on 35-year panel data, indicate that growth rates of real GDP, private consumption and private investment in...
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Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives …-reporting of remittances. After controlling for this, we find a strong negative impact of remittances on incentives to work …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. REMITTANCES -- THEIR MOTIVATION -- III. A STOCHASTIC MONETARY ECONOMY -- IV …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. BRIEF REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON EL SALVADOR'S RECEIPTS OF REMITTANCES -- III …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DETERMINANTS OF WORKERS' REMITTANCES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS -- III …
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. DATA AND METHODOLOGY -- III. MODELING AND INTERPRETING THE EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE -- IV. ASSESSING THE EQUILIBRIUM REAL EXCHANGE RATE -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix: Methodological Problems with Smoothing -- REFERENCES.
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