We conducted a spatiotemporal analysis of trends and disparities in health service coverage indicators using PhilHealth data on insurance claims, membership, and accredited facilities merged with auxiliary datasets from the Department of Health and Philippine Statistics Authority. The results...

This study presents a small macroeconometric model with a fiscal sector, extending the model presented in Debuque and Corpus (2022). The model retains the original core blocks of domestic demand, international trade, employment, prices, and monetary sectors, and adds a fiscal sector consisting...

The study aims to estimate the short-term impact of the recent rounds of food price inflation and the COVID19 crisis by estimating a household food demand system, converted to energy and nutrient intakes. It demonstrates that recent food and nutrition surveys conducted by the Philippine...

We provide new evidence of the heterogeneous impact of the Philippines' conditional cash transfer (CCT) program designed to improve human capital investments among children from poor households. Using a regression discontinuity design, our moderation analysis shows that the distance to and...

With the advent of digital transformation, ICT innovations have also led to a "data revolution" wherein more data is being captured, produced, stored, accessed, analyzed, archived, and reanalyzed, and at an exponential pace. An examination of new data sources, including big data and...

This Study on Process Evaluation of the Deployment of Service Attachés or Representatives of Certain Government Agencies evaluates the deployment processes of service attachés of eight (8) government agencies1 . It reviews the current systems, frameworks and criteria in place for the...

Empirical evidence points to globalization to be favorable for the growth and development of a nation. For the Philippines, trade openness and foreign portfolio helped increase per capita GDP as investment and productivity improve. With trade openness and globalization, nations share and gain...

To understand the design of JPEPA and EFTA, notably the similarities with other FTAs of Japan and EFTA-member countries, respectively, and how these similarities affect Philippine trade, the study proposes the use of text-of-trade-analysis, that is, text analysis employing textas-data. The paper...

As the Fourth Industrial Revolution transforms the conduct of work and enterprises, inequalities and the digital-spatial divide become front and center of conversations that aim to promote online marketplaces and maximize their benefits. This paper takes stock of the development in human...

The Philippines has been a major source of female domestic labor in East Asia. The migration of Filipino female household service or domestic workers contributed to the sustained economic growth in countries like Japan, Hong Kong PRC, and Singapore, amidst chronic demographic and labor issues....