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World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated - such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable hypotheses and then we use dynamic panel analysis to test those …
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World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...
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output gaps, and can be applied when N is large relative to T (the time dimension of the panel). The proposed test is applied … to output series in the Penn World Tables over 1950-2000, as well as to Maddion?s historical series over 1870 …
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economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
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This paper suggests that the weak empirical effect of human capital on growth in existing cross-country studies is partly the result of an inappropriate specification that does not account for the different channels through which human capital affects growth. A systematic replication of earlier...
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causality in dynamic panel data models incorporating unobserved heterogeneity. While Adams et al. tests reject the hypothesis of … no causality from wealth to husband's or wife's health, the tests in the dynamic panel data model do not provide evidence …
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In recent years a number of panel estimators have been suggested for sample selection models, where both the selection … females, using a panel of twelve years. All these estimators rely on the assumption of strict exogeneity of regressors in the … the estimation methods discussed. …
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Most evaluation studies of active labour market policies (ALMP) focus on the microeconometric evaluation approach using individual data. However, as the microeconometric approach usually ignores impacts on the non-participants, it should be seen as a first step to a complete evaluation which has...
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