This study develops a macroeconometric model for the Mauritian economy to explain long-run determinants of the country’s economic performance. The Engle-Granger (1987) two-step cointegration methodology is adopted to capture both short-run and long-run dynamic properties of the macroeconomy....

Based on data from the “Survey of Biological and Social Reproduction of the Uruguayan Population: an approach from the perspective of gender and generations” of 2004, we studied the impact of teenage motherhood on the educational outcomes of women. The results confirm the endogeneity of...

This research studies the factors that influence Mexican migrants to remit. Specifically, we test for gender-specific patterns in both the propensity to remit and the amount remitted using original survey data collected in Houston, Texas from November 2006 through July 2007. Following previous...

Previous child health evidence in Kenya has been based on uni-dimensional poverty analysis. Assessing the multiple aspects of child well-being can help, however, reveal complexities and ambiguities in the distribution of child well-being. This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child...

This paper studies the long-run and short-run dynamics between emigrants’ nominal inbound remittances in U.S. dollar term to Mexico and the Peso-Dollar nominal exchange rates. Relatively high frequency monthly data from January 1987 through December 2008 are employed. Given the comparatively...

This research utilises a three-stage Stochastic Frontier Analysis/Data Envelope Analysis to investigate the relationship between post-crisis banking reforms, bank efficiency and macroeconomic performance from 2000 till 2010. The study draws lessons for Egypt from the Turkish bank reforms which...