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External validity in a stochastic world : evidence from low-income countries
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Udry, Christopher - In: The review of economic studies : RES 87 (2020) 1, pp. 343-381
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Savings Facilitation or Capital Injection? : Impacts and Spillovers of Livelihood Interventions in Post-Conflict Cate D'Ivoire
Marguerie, Alicia - 2023
. To address financial constraints, are capital injections needed, or is savings mobilization sufficient This paper tests …-entrepreneurship training. "Cash grants" and "cash grants with repayment" directly inject capital, while "village savings and loan associations … on the dynamics of savings and productive asset accumulation. The cash grant modalities generated investments in startup …
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Is there an asymmetric impact of housing on output?
Lee, Tsung-Hsien Michael; Chen, Wenjuan - 2015
Numerous papers have tried to understand housing’s role in the economy and have not reached an agreement. In this paper we turn to the asymmetric relationship between housing and the overall economic activity. We find that the relation between building permits and GDP is regime-dependent....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529356
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The euro to dollar exchange rate in the Covid-19 era : evidence from spectral causality and Markov-switching estimation
Konstantakis, Konstantinos N.; Melissaropoulos, Ioannis G. - In: International journal of finance & economics : IJFE 28 (2023) 2, pp. 2037-2055
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Deficit financing with the national saving certificate and its macroeconomic consequences on Bangladesh's economy
Alam, Mohammad Mahabub - 2023
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Assessing Brazilian macroeconomic dynamics using a Markov-switching DSGE model
Gonçalves, Caio César Soares; Portugal, Marcelo Savino; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 1, pp. 23-42
The goal of this paper is to evaluate the behavior of the main parameters of the Brazilian economy through the estimation of an open-economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model using Bayesian methods and allowing for Markov switching of certain parameters. Using the DSGE model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011865618
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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices : a non-technical guide
Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937325
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Econometric methods for causal evaluation of education policies and practices : a non-technical guide
Schlotter, Martin; Schwerdt, Guido; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922964
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From proof of concept to scalable policies : challenges and solutions, with an application
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Banerji, Rukmini; Berry, James; … - 2016
The promise of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is that evidence gathered through the evaluation of a specific program helps us — possibly after several rounds of fine-tuning and multiple replications in different contexts — to inform policy. However, critics have pointed out that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011573221
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Econometric Methods for Causal Evaluation of Education Policies and Practices : A Non-Technical Guide
Schlotter, Martin - 2010
Education policy-makers and practitioners want to know which policies and practices can best achieve their goals. But research that can inform evidence-based policy often requires complex methods to distinguish causation from accidental association. Avoiding econometric jargon and technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148314