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Does aid for education educate children? Evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272955
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Does aid for education educate children? Evidence from panel data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970 - 2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273989
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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: The World Bank economic review 22 (2008) 2, pp. 291-314
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
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Umwelt und empirische Sozial- und Wirtschaftsforschung : Beiträge und Diskussionsberichte zu einer Tagung der Projektgruppe "Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel" am Deutschen Institut für...
Schupp, Jürgen (ed.); Wagner, Gert G. (ed.) - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung / … - 1998
Umweltforschung und Umweltschutz sind keineswegs nur Gegenstand der Naturwissenschaften, sondern empirische Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und haben in diesem Problemfeld auch ihren wichtigen Platz. Die entsprechende empirische Forschung dient vor allem zwei Zwecken: zum einen der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401957
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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272941
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Sectoral aid priorities: Are donors really doing their best to achieve the millennium development goals?
Thiele, Rainer; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Dreher, Axel - 2006
We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277865
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Multidisciplinary household panel studies under academic direction
Schupp, Jürgen; Frick, Joachim R. - 2010
This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household … panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with … experiments have been incorporated into various panel studies or are soon to be introduced. In the UK, the household panel study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003963260
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Who Is Against Immigration? : A Cross-Country Investigation of Individual Attitudes toward Immigrants
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2004
This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261871
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Less aid proliferation and more donor coordination? The wide gap between words and deeds
Aldasoro, Iñaki; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2009
We present a two-step approach of assessing whether major donors of foreign aid have met recent demands for less proliferated and better coordinated aid efforts. First, we calculate Theil indices revealing the concentration of each donor's aid on recipient countries and specific aid sectors....
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