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Natural disasters and remittances: Exploring the linkages between poverty, gender and disaster vulnerability in Caribbean SIDS

Attzs, Marlene - 2008

households in the Caribbean. Jamaica is used as the case study country. The paper discusses the channels through which natural … disasters and remittances affect each other but also reviews the distribution of female-headed households in Jamaica as a …

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Out of many, dominance by a few? Market power in the Jamaican banking sector

Daley, Jenifer; Matthews, Kent - 2009

banks. Using usual statistical tests, we are unable to reject monopoly/perfect collusion for the banking market in Jamaica …

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Measuring post-crisis productivity for Jamaican banks

Daley, Jenifer; Matthews, Kent - 2009

The study examines the changes to total factor productivity of Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. Using Data Envelopment Analysis with bootstrap to construct a Malmquist index, bank productivity is measured and decomposed into technical progress and efficiency. The results suggest an...

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Efficiency and convergence in the Jamaican banking sector 1998 - 2007

Daley, Jenifer; Matthews, Kent - 2009

Deregulation, re-regulation and continuing globalisation embody an imperative that banks increase efficiency to survive. We employ non-parametric bootstrap DEA to measure technical efficiency among Jamaican banks between 1998 and 2007. In addition, we test for conditional convergence to identify...

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Measuring bank efficiency: Tradition or sophistication? - A note

Daley, Jenifer; Matthews, Kent - 2009

The recent literature on measuring bank performance indicates a preference for sophisticated techniques over simple accounting ratios. We explore the results and relationships between bank efficiency estimates using accounting ratios and Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) with bootstrap among Jamaican...

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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen: evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860

Pritchett, Jonathan; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of free and enslaved patients. Despite a higher mortality rate in the general population, slaves were significantly less likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze...

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The evolution of the racial gap in education and the legacy of slavery

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo - 2011

determined by the initial gap. We obtain these results with 2SLS estimates where slavery is used as an instrument for the initial … gap. The excludability of slavery is preliminarily established by instrumenting it with the share of disembarked slaves … initial racial gap in education and that slavery affects growth indirectly through this channel. …

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Foreign Exchange Controls, Fiscal and Monetary Policy, and the Black Market Premium

Fardmanesh, Mohsen; Douglas, Seymour - 2003

, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad, during the 1985-1993 period using cointegration, Granger causality, and reduced form methods … them in Guyana and Trinidad, which unlike Jamaica applied infrequent and large adjustments to their official rates. The … causation is bi-directional in the case of Jamaica and uni-directional, with changes in the official rate Granger causing …

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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean

Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016

Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...

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Do Remittances Help Smooth Consumption During Health Shocks? Evidence From Jamaica

Beuermann, Diether W.; Ruprah, Inder S.; Sierra, Ricardo E. - 2014

We identify whether remittances facilitate consumption smoothing during health shocks in Jamaica. In addition, we …

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