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Calendar anomalies in African stock markets
Ferrouhi, El Mehdi; Kharbouch, Omar; Aguenaou, Samir; … - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-17
In this paper, we investigate the day of the week and the month of the year effects in African stock markets, both in the Gregorian and the Hijri calendars. Specifically, we investigate Monday effect, Friday effect, January effect and Ramadan effect, from January 2009 to December 2019, using OLS...
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The sensitivity of distributional measures to the reference period of income
Schröder, Carsten - 2012
When individual or household incomes are collected for administrative or scientific surveys, the reference period of income is sometimes a month, sometimes a quarter, and sometimes a year. This reference period of income likely affects the shape of the distribution and derived measures of...
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Food deficits, food security and food aid : concepts and measurement
Gabbert, Silke; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 1998
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Teacher Shortages, Teacher Contracts and Their Impact on Education in Africa
Bourdon, Jean; Frölich, Markus; Michaelowa, Katharina - 2021
Primary school enrollment rates are very low in francophone Africa. In order to enhance education supply, many … same time, we also observe clear differences between the countries. We find that, overall, effects are positive in Mali …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317046
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The Social Outcomes of Education and Feedbacks on Growth in Africa
McMahon, Walter W.; Appiah, Elizabeth M. - 2014
, poverty, political stability, and other key measures of economic development in Africa. It seeks to do this more … iteratively over time for all of the direct and indirect (largely externality) effects in a process referred to here as endogenous …
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Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa : The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some …
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Weather shocks, age of marriage and the direction of marriage payments
Corno, Lucia; Hildebrandt, Nicole; Voena, Alessandra - 2016
.e. prior to age 18) among young women in Africa and India. We show that rainfall shocks, a major source of income variation in … Africa, droughts increase the hazard into early marriage, while in India, droughts decrease the hazard. We argue that the … payments in each region (bride price in Africa and dowry in India). Our results highlight the importance of understanding the …
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China's 'Great Migration' : The Impact of the Reduction in Trade Policy Uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni - 2018
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929088
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More development, less emigration to OECD countries : identifying inconsistencies between cross-sectional and time-series estimates of the migration hump
Bencek, David; Schneiderheinze, Claas - 2019
-section. However, more rigorous fixed effects panel estimations that exploit the variation over time consistently show a negative …
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China's "great migration" : the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty
Facchini, Giovanni; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mayda, Anna Maria; … - 2018 - This draft: November 2017
We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795090