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The longer-term effects of human capital enrichment programs on poverty and inequality : oportunidades in Mexico

McKee, Douglas; Todd, Petra E. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 67-100

Previous empirical research has shown that Mexico's Oportunidades program has succeeded in increasing schooling and improving health of disadvantaged children. This paper studies the program's potential longer-term consequences for the poverty and inequality of these children. It adapts methods...

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Alleviating extreme poverty in Chile : the short term effects of Chile Solidario

Galasso, Emanuela - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 101-127

This paper evaluates the effect of an anti-poverty program, Chile Solidario, during its first two years of operation. We find that the program tends to increases significantly their take-up of cash assistance programs and of social programs for housing and employment, and to improve education...

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An empirical investigation of parametric and semiparametric estimation methods in sample selection models

Fernández-Sainz, Ana I.; Rodríguez-Póo, Juan M. - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 10 (2010), pp. 99-120

In this paper we analyze empirically different specifications of a sample selection model. We are interested in how the estimates vary across alternative assumptions concerning the joint conditional distribution of the sample selection equation errors, such us the specification of error...

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El coste de los cuidados de larga duración en la población española : análisis comparativo entre los años 1999 y 2008

Alcañiz Zanón, Manuela; Alemany Leira, Ramón; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 12 (2011), pp. 111-131

This paper analyzes the cost of long-term care (LTC) associated to individuals in dependence situation. The economic cost of care per unit of service is linked to the expected time of needed care and the intensity of required services. We have estimated the expected lifetime cost of LTC in...

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Percepción empresarial de la mejora del enlace ferroviario Vigo-Oporto y modelización de la elección modal

Sánchez Sellero, Francisco Javier; Cruz González, … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 159-175

This work analyzes the use of the train by the Galician companies when they do business transactions with northern Portuguese operators. The residual usage of this infrastructure (0.01 of all the transactions) is proved opposite the masive use of the truck; factors that explain the choice and...

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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

This paper presents the results of a three-year evaluation performed on the first cohorts of Chile Solidario, the most important anti-poverty program in Chile. The paper presents a description of the program, emphasizing the mechanism by which people were admitted into the program. We then...

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An empirical study on weak-form of market efficiency of selected Asian stock markets

Patel, Nikunj R.; Radadia, Nitesh; Dhawan, Juhi - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 2, pp. 99-148

The purpose of this research is to investigate the weak form of market efficiency of Asian four selected stock markets … form of efficiency. The time series for the full as well as sample period did not have a presence of unit root in the … study remained inefficient for some lag whereas they were efficient for the other lag. -- eeak form Market Efficiency …

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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 … territoriality. The achieved results show that the average efficiency of the Musical Societies stands at 72.66% and points out to the …

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