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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784649
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807601
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287846
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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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Mitigating adverse social and health impacts of COVID-19 with applied arts
Metzger, Martina; Steinhauer, Hans Walter; Pédussel … - 2024
In this project, we analyze whether the arts can mitigate negative impacts of social distancing and isolation on mental health and wellbeing, ease the burden of closed day-care and school facilities on families, and preserve attitudes of solidarity and trust. Using the SOEP-CoV questionnaire, we...
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208771
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The role of obedience and the rule of law during the pandemic
Çakmaklı, Cem; Demiralp, Selva; Yeşiltaş, Sevcan; … - 2021
Despite the mounting costs of the pandemic at the global scale, the country-specific costs were rather heterogenous. National performances varied depending on the restrictive measures adopted, institutional strength, as well as adherence to stringency measures. We illustrate that obedience and...
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