This paper deals with the implementation of an additive linear model for mixture of mixtures including major and minor components. Experimental designs, derived from designs for qualitative factors, are built for the two classical cases of type A or type B mixtures. With such designs the...

Many studies have suggested that there is an inverse relationship between education and number of children among women from sub-Saharan Africa countries, including Malawi. However, a crucial limitation of these analyses is that they do not control for the potential endogeneity of education. The...

This paper examines the effect of FDI on the process of economic growth by allowing the impact to differ both across each country and also across each time period. We apply non-parametric techniques taking into account the previously documented nonlinear effects of initial income and human...