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Fertility transition in Turkey : who is most at risk of deciding against child arrival?
Greulich, Angela; Dasre, Aurélien; Inan, Ceren - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295657
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A novel approach to the automatic designation of predefined census enumeration areas and population sampling frames : a case study in Somalia
Qader, Sarchil; Lefebvre, Veronique; Ninneman, Amy; … - 2019
Enumeration areas are the operational geographic units for the collection, dissemination, and analysis of census data … computer. This paper, for the first time, produces an automatic designation of predefined census enumeration areas based on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113985
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Small area estimation of poverty under structural change
Lange, Simon; Pape, Utz Johann; Pütz, Peter - 2018
estimated based on a consumption survey reporting on poverty and a census providing the spatial disaggregation. This paper … presents a new method which allows for the estimation of up-to-date small area poverty maps when only a dated census and a more … constructed from the census. The proposed estimator has fewer data requirements and weaker assumptions than common small area …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011875234
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Imputing poverty indicators without consumption data : an exploratory analysis
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Kilic, Talip; Abanokova, Kseniya; … - 2024
Accurate poverty measurement relies on household consumption data, but such data are often inadequate, outdated or display inconsistencies over time in poorer countries. To address these data challenges, we employ survey-to-survey imputation to produce estimates for several poverty indicators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582221
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Life expectancy at birth and lifetime education and earnings
Hoque, Mohammad Mainul; King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro, … - 2020
Exploiting cross-birth cohort and cross-country variation from a pool of 188 household surveys from 111 countries, this paper measures how life expectancy at birth affects lifetime education and earnings. On average, individuals add one year of schooling for every 8.3 years of increased life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388740
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Malaysia's economic growth and transition to high income : an application of the World Bank Long Term Growth Model (LTGM)
Devadas, Sharmila; Guzman, Jorge; Kim, Young Eun; … - 2020
This paper studies economic growth in Malaysia, with the purpose of assessing the potential to attain the status and characteristics of a high-income country. Future economic growth is simulated under a business-as-usual baseline, where the growth drivers follow their historical or recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241371
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Migration and remittances in the Former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : what are the long-term macroeconomic consequences?
Brownbridge, Martin; Canagarajah, Sudharshan - 2020
Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as measured by the Human Capital Index, than is typical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012228263
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The Utilization-adjusted Human Capital Index (UHCI) : background paper the Human Capital Index 2020 update
Pennings, Steven - 2020
The World Bank Human Capital Index (HCI) is based on the productivity gains of future workers from human capital accumulation. But in many developing countries, a sizeable fraction of people are not employed, or are in jobs in which they cannot fully use their skills and cognitive abilities to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296855
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Mama knows (and does) best : maternal schooling opportunities and child development in Indonesia
Hasan, Amer; Nakajima, Nozomi; Rangel, Marcos A. - 2020
This paper leverages quasi-experimental variation in increased access to basic formal education, introduced by a large-scale school construction program in Indonesia in the 1970s, to quantify the benefits to the children of women targeted by the program. Novel and rich data allow the analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297484
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Determinants of participation in manufacturing GVCs in Africa : the role of skills, human capital endowment and migration
Yaméogo, Nadège Désirée; Jammeh, Kebba - 2019
This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor contents in exports were generated from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059241