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Evaluating the Chile Solidario program : results using the Chile Solidario panel and the administrative databases

Hoces de la Guardia, Fernando; Hojman, Andrés; … - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 129-168

important anti-poverty program in Chile. The paper presents a description of the program, emphasizing the mechanism by which … workers in the family and the employment of the head of the family. -- matching ; extreme poverty ; impact evaluation …

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The relationship between government expenditure and poverty : a cointegration analysis

Mehmood, Rashid; Sadiq, Sara - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 1 (2010) 1, pp. 29-37

government expenditure over the level of tax revenue collection, and poverty. The results reveal a negative relationship between … government expenditure and poverty based on time series data from 1976 to 2010. The short run and long run relationships between … poverty and other variables are identified by ECM model and Johnson Cointegration test respectively. The results show that …

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Relationship between economic freedom and pro-poor growth : evidence from Pakistan (1995-2010)

Zaman, Khalid; Khan, Muhammad Mushtaq; Ahmad, Mehboob - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 2 (2011) 1, pp. 24-35

strong relationship between economic freedom, poverty reduction and income inequality. Results reveal that larger the … business freedom and / or trade freedom, greater the economic growth. This will ultimately reduce poverty in the country …. -- economic freedom indicators ; pro-poor growth ; poverty ; inequality ; Pakistan …

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Never give up? : the persistence of welfare participation in Sweden

Andrén, Thomas; Andrén, Daniela - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

Long-term social assistance dependency is a growing concern in Sweden and other European countries. In order for policy makers to design effective welfare reforms it is important to know how strong the state dependence associated with social assistance is in the population and to what extent it...

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Mental health : the new frontier for labour economics

Layard, Richard - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-16

This lecture argues that mental health is a major factor of production. It is the biggest single influence on life satisfaction, with mental health eight years earlier a more powerful explanatory factor than current income. Mental health also affects earnings and educational success. But, most...

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A chronology of turning points in economic activity : Spain, 1850 – 2011

Berge, Travis J.; Jordà, Òscar - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 1-34

This paper codifies in a systematic and transparent way a historical chronology of business cycle turning points for Spain reaching back to 1850 at annual frequency, and 1939 at monthly frequency. Such an exercise would be incomplete without assessing the new chronology itself and against...

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Remittances, expenditure patterns, and gender : parametric and semiparametric evidence from Ecuador

Göbel, Kristin - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This study estimates the impact of migrants’ remittances on households’ spending decisions in Ecuador. Applying both parametric and semiparametric techniques, we find strong evidence that remittances enhance expenditures on education, health, and housing, but decrease expenditures on food....

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Eficiencia de las sociedades musicales de la Comunidad Valenciana

Rausell Koster, Pau; Coll-Serrano, Vicente; Abeledo … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 117-132

Empirical applications for assessing the efficiency in cultural organizations are still scarce. In this paper, we use a non-radial, output-oriented, DEA model for assessing the efficiency of a sample of 292 Musical Societies in the Valencian Community. The interest in this type of cultural...

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Una aplicación de los árboles de expansión mínima y árboles jerárquicos al estudio de la convergencia interregional en dinámica de regímenes

Brida, Juan Gabriel; London, Silvia; Rojas, Mara - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 15 (2013), pp. 3-28

This paper studies the regional convergence of sub-national states in the case of Mercosur from 1961 to 2005 by using a non-parametric technique of clustering under the concept of \regime of performance". In the first section, a review in interregional convergence is shown for the Mercosur case....

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Modelo de selección de riesgo, aplicado al otorgamiento de microcrédito en un intermediario financiero de crédito colombiano, apoyado en redes neuronales artificiales

Miller, Ariza; Wilson, Barón; Nélson, Obregón; … - In: Atlantic review of economics 1 (2012)

This article aims to identify the most relevant variables that allow through a neural network model (RNA), with supervised learning, in a kind of error correction and feedforward perceptron multilayer architecture to achieve the best predictors of low risk, in the process of microcredit....

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