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Measuring the Technical Efficiency of Airports in Latin America

Perelman, Sergio - 2017

through questionnaires distributed to airport operators, the authors use Data Envelopment Analysis methods to compute an … world. In a second stage, they estimate a truncated regression to study the drivers of observed differences in airport … gross domestic product), and airport characteristics (hub airport, share of commercial revenues) matter in explaining …

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Some Economic Consequences of the Transition from Civil War to Peace

Azam, Jean-Paul - 2017

Drawing on evidence from Africa - especially Ethiopia and Uganda - the authors of this volume draw conclusions about economic policy in the aftermath of civil war. A sample of conclusions follows. Civil wars differ from international wars. They are informal, often have no clear beginning and...

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Using the Global Positioning System in Household Surveys for Better Economics and Better Policy

Gibson, John - 2016

Distance and location are important determinants of many choices that economists study. While these variables can sometimes be obtained from secondary data, economists often rely on information that is self-reported by respondents in surveys. These self-reports are used especially for the...

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Quantifying International Migration : A Database of Bilateral Migrant Stocks

Parsons, Christopher Robert - 2016

This paper introduces four versions of an international bilateral migration stock database for 226 by 226 countries and territories. The first three versions each consist of two matrices, the first containing migrants defined by country of birth, that is, the foreign-born population; the second,...

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How Good a Map? Putting Small Area Estimation to the Test

Demombynes, Gabriel - 2016

The authors examine the performance of small area welfare estimation. The method combines census and survey data to produce spatially disaggregated poverty and inequality estimates. To test the method, they compare predicted welfare indicators for a set of target populations with their true...

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Data Gaps, Data Incomparability, and Data Imputation : A Review of Poverty Measurement Methods for Data-Scarce Environments

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2020

This paper reviews methods that have been employed to estimate poverty in contexts where household consumption data are unavailable or missing. These contexts range from completely missing and partially missing consumption data in cross-sectional household surveys, to missing panel household...

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The Impact of Household Food Consumption Data Collection Methods on Poverty and Inequality Measures in Niger

Backiny-Yetna, Prospere - 2020

This paper assesses the impact of three methodologies of food data collection on the welfare distribution, and poverty and inequality measures in Niger. The first methodology is a 7-day recall period, the second one is a usual month, and the third one is a 7-day diary. The paper finds that there...

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Polarization and its Discontents : Morocco Before and after the Arab Spring

Clementi, Fabio - 2019

This paper uses data obtained from three Moroccan household surveys that took place between 2000 to 2013, to address issues related to the so-called "Arab puzzle." Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist against the backdrop of a growing sense of dissatisfaction...

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Sustainable Development Goal Diagnostics : The Case of the Arab Republic of Egypt

Amin-Salem, H. - 2018

The United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals are comprehensive and holistic in nature, encompassing 17 goals and 169 targets covering economic, social, and environmental dimensions of development. Countries face the challenge of translating the Sustainable Development...

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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Jakiela, Pamela - 2017

This study estimates the impact of Kenya?s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the...

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