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An Evaluation of the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design on PROGRESA

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2003

While providing the most reliable method of evaluating social programs, randomized experiments in developing and developed countries alike are accompanied by political risks and ethical issues that jeopardize the chances of adopting them. In this paper we use a unique data set from rural Mexico...

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EU aid for ACP investment

Wolf, Susanna - 2002

Kommission in den 90er Jahren zum fünftgrößten Geber von Entwicklungshilfe in der Welt entwickelt. Die AKP-Staaten liegen bei … Betrachtung der Gesamthilfe überproportional unter denen, welche die meiste Entwicklungshilfe pro Kopf in der Welt erhalten. Es … Beitrag zu der gegenwärtigen Debatte über die Wirksamkeit von Entwicklungshilfe geleistet. Es wird argumentiert dass die …

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Does aid for education educate children? Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970-2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...

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Aid and growth accelerations: An alternative approach to assess the effectiveness of aid

Dovern, Jonas; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2006

It continues to be heavily disputed whether foreign aid promotes economic growth in developing countries. In most cross-country regressions, aid is considered effective only if it shifts recipient countries to a significantly higher and sustainable growth path. We apply an alternative approach...

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Does aid for education educate children? Evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - 2006

This paper empirically analyzes the impact of aid on education for about 100 countries over the period 1970 - 2005. We estimate a system of equations to test whether and to what extent the impact of sector-specific aid on educational attainment depends on (i) the extent to which aid adds to...

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Does Aid for Education Educate Children? Evidence from Panel Data

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Thiele, Rainer - In: The World Bank economic review 22 (2008) 2, pp. 291-314

We analyze the aid portfolio of various bilateral and multilateral donors, testing whether they have prioritised aid in line with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). In doing so, we combine sectorally disaggregated aid data with indicators reflecting the situation of recipient countries...

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Endogenous policy and cross-country growth empirics

Rehme, Günther - 2007

In this paper it is shown that it matters a lot for empirical research whether policy is taken to be exogenously set or to be endogenous. In the model investment depends on policy which depends on economically important fundamentals and is, thus, endogenous. Conditioning on factor accumu- lation...

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Does the Recent Success of Some OECD Countries in Lowering their Unemployment Rates Lie in the Clever Design of their Labour Market Reforms?

Belot, Michèle; van Ours, Jan C. - 2000

The development of the unemployment rate differs substantially between OECD countries. In recent years some countries experienced a mild increase, other countries had a stable unemployment rate, while there are also 'successful' countries in which the unemployment rate decreased a lot. A common...

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The Missing Link: The Knowledge Filter and Entrepreneurship in Endogenous Growth

Ács, Zoltán J.; Audretsch, David B.; Braunerhjelm, Pontus - 2005

The intellectual breakthrough contributed by the new growth theory was the recognition that investments in knowledge and human capital endogenously generate economic growth through the spillover of knowledge. Endogenous growth theory does not explain how or why spillovers occur. The missing link...

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Industry-specific knowledge spurs productivity: An application of panel cointegration

Zloczysti, Petra - 2011

linkage between channels of international knowledge spillovers and total factor productivity. We distinguish between domestic … and international intra- and inter-sectoral spillover sources. Patent applications are exploited to estimate the …

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