partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …

partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …

participate in the health market running a public hospital. We find that the presence of the public provider increases the average …. In the presence of an increasing concern about the relationship between pollution and health, understanding the role of …

to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) growth into technical efficiency changes (catching up) and technological … separately estimate technical efficiency change, which is a component of TFP growth, and we find that, in general, the estimated … technical efficiency of the high-performing East Asian economies was not out of line with the rest of the world. …

efficiency scores derived from stochastic frontier analysis. To correct for this heterogeneity in coefficients, I propose a …. This estimation has better goodness of fit, reduced variance of all coefficients, and higher efficiency scores for nearly …