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The 2030 sustainable development goals and measuring gender inequality: A technical articulation for Asia-Pacific

Aggarwal, Bhavya; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016

Against the backdrop of the 2030 UN Agenda for Sustainable Development, this paper analyzes the measurement issues in gender-based indices constructed by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and suggests alternatives for choice of variables, functional form, and weights. While the...

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Impact of Special Economic Zones on Employment, Poverty and Human Development

Aggarwal, Aradhna - 2007

This study aims at examining the impact of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) on human development and poverty reduction in India. It identifies three channels through which SEZs address these issues: employment generation, skill formation (human capital development), and technology and knowledge...

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Land, poverty and human development in Kenya

wa Githinji, Mwangi - 2011

The question of poverty has become central to the work of development economists in the last decade and a half. The 2000 World Development Report was entitled Attacking Poverty and the UN held a series of World Conferences in the 1990s, all of which addressed in some form or fashion the problem...

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Revisiting the linkage between remittances inflow and economic growth: A semi-parametric estimation with panel data

Farroukh, Arafet; Mazioued, Manel; Pédussel Wu, Jennifer - 2024

We investigate the relationship between remittances inflow and economic growth in a sample of 65 emerging countries over the period 1988-2018 using the semi-parametric panel data model with fixed effects as proposed by Baltagi and Li (2002). Our empirical results show that the effect of...

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Swedish Health Care Performance – Quantity versus Quality

Janlöv, Nils - 2007

This paper investigates the relative efficiency of 21 Swedish county councils through two efficiency models; one … other on quality outputs in the form of health-related outcomes (outcome model). Efficiency is estimated using Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and the two models are used to test whether there are significantly different efficiency estimates …

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Semiparametric instrumental variable estimation in an endogenous treatment model

Klein, Roger; Shen, Chan - 2015

We propose instrumental variable(IV) estimators for quantile marginal effects and the parameters upon which they depend in a semiparametric outcome model with endogenous discrete treatment variables. We prove identification, consistency, and asymptotic normality of the estimators. We also show...

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Universal preschool programs and long-term child outcomes: A systematic review

Dietrichson, Jens; Kristiansen, Ida Lykke; Nielsen, … - 2018

What are the long-term effects of universal preschool programs on child outcomes? We review 26 studies using natural experiments to estimate the effects of universal preschool programs for children aged 0-6 years on child outcomes measured from third grade to adulthood. Studies comparing...

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A multi-sensory tutoring program for students at-risk of reading difficulties: Evidence from a randomized field experiment

Bøg, Martin; Dietrichson, Jens; Aldenius, Anna - 2019

Although reading is a fundamental skill, many students leave school without being proficient readers. We examine a literacy program targeting students most at-risk of reading difficulties in kindergarten and first grade. The program includes multi-sensory learning methods, which focus on...

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Childhood Health and Labor Market Outcomes in the Case of Type 1 Diabetes

Persson, Sofie; Dahlquist, Gisela; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; … - 2014

This study investigates the impact of childhood health on labor market outcomes. We used type 1 diabetes as an instrument of health because its cause is multifactorial and it is triggered by a complex combination of genetic and environmental components; its incidence is low and unforeseeable for...

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Effect of Type 1 Diabetes on School Performance in a Dynamic World: New Analysis Exploring Swedish Register Data

Persson, Emma; Persson, Sofie; Gerdtham, Ulf-G.; Steen … - 2016

This paper investigates if the effect of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) on school performance has changed over time using national Swedish population register data. The issue is of interest because management and treatment of the disease have improved over the last decades and, furthermore,...

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