Using panel data for the period of 1975-2011, this study attempts to answer the question of whether the quantity or … (5-year averaged) panel data. Issues of endogeneity, measurement bias, simultaneity and reverse causality are addressed … to different samples and estimation techniques. Nonetheless, the study does not discount the importance of the quality of …

the Panel Smooth Transition Regression (PSTR) model of Gonzalés et al. (2005) and three metrics of financial development …

and its four provinces across gender domains. The paper also corroborates the education-growth hypothesis through panel … estimation of a modified Macro-Mincerian function. We find that the commitment of the public sector to education provision has a …

parties are both sold to the Rest of the world. Therefore, the opportunity cost of conflict depends also on relative … contested sectors are countervailing forces. The empirical section focused on a panel of Sub-Saharan African countries for the … increase in world prices of manufactures would make civil wars less likely. …