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Linking public issues with private troubles : panel studies in developing countries

Harpham, Trudy; Huttly, Sharon; WIlson, Ian; de Wet, Thea - 2002

In the developed world the importance of evidence-based policy is increasingly recognised. Panel studies – a long-term study design where a cross-sectional sample of units is selected and surveyed at regular intervals – are being used to gather information about the same people or...

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The Error Properties of Interviewer Observations and their Implications for Nonresponse Adjustment of Survey Estimates.

West, Brady Thomas - 2011

Interviewer observations are an important source of auxiliary information in survey research. Interviewers can record observations for all units in a sample, and selected observations may be associated with both key survey variables and response propensity. Survey statisticians use auxiliary...

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14.471 Public Economics I, Fall 2003

Poterba, James M. - 2003

Theory and evidence on government taxation policy. Topics include tax incidence; optimal tax theory; the effect of taxation on labor supply and savings; corrective taxes for externalities; taxation and corporate behavior; and tax expenditure policy. From the course home page: Course Description...

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An Investigation into the Impact of Income, Culture and Religion on Consumption Behaviour: A Comparative Study of the Malay and the Chinese Consumers in Malaysia

Fatt Sian, Lai - 2009

The study of consumer behaviour has attracted much attention from researchers.Models have been postulated and re-postulated in many attempts to explain thedecision process of consumers as it changes over time and space, as well as indifferent environments such as culture, race and religion. The...

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Wealth, mother's education and physical access as determinants of retail sector net use in rural Kenya

Noor, Abdisalan M.; Omumbo, Judith A; Amin, Abdinasir A.; … - 2006

homestead wealth on use of nets purchased from the retail sector is well documented, however, the competing influence of mother … were collected at homestead, mother and child (aged < 5 years) levels. An assets-based wealth index was developed using … before the interview; 58% (327) of the nets used were purchased from the retail sector. Homestead wealth (adjusted OR = 10 …

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Wealth effects on consumer spending in the US economy

Avramenko, Andriy - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of wealth on consumer spending in the United States. A traditional life-cycle model … is estimated first. Although it does find a statistically significant wealth effect, its findings are unusable due to the … offered. First, wealth is divided into stock market and non-stock market components, second into liquid and illiquid …

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Drivers of the Value of the Firm: Profitability, Growth, and Capital Intensity

Miller, Tom W.; Mathisen, Richard E. - 2004

Value-based management systems focus on wealth and the wealth creation process and promote the generation of value for … desired course of action to improve the wealth generating ability of the firm by managing these value drivers more effectively. …

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THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE EU AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE INCREASE IN POPULATION’S STANDARD OF LIVING

CIOBAN, Gabriela-Liliana - 2015

The basic structure of our research for this article focuses on identifying, with arguments, reasoning for the following question: „How do we explain the switch between industry and services as a determinant of growth/prosperity for the 28 member countries of the EU?” In order to answer this...

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Partial Least Squares and Principal Component Analysis with Non-metric Variables for Composite Indices

Yoon, Jisu - 2015

Ein zusammengesetzter Index ist eine aggregierte Variable, die aus individuellen Indikatoren und Gewichten besteht, wobei die Gewichte die relative Wichtigkeit jedes Indikators darstellen. Zusammengesetzte Indizes werden oft benutzt um latente Phänomene zu schreiben oder komplexe Informationen...

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OSCILLATIONS IN THE WALRASIAN GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM THEORY WITH ENDOGENOUS WEALTH AND HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION

ZHANG, Wei Bin - 2016

This paper generalizes the dynamic growth model with wealth accumulation and human capital accumulation proposed by …

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