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The power of Remittances on the Prevalence of Child Labor

Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011

This article examines the relationship between migrants' remittances and the prevalence of child labor by using a large sample of developing countries. In particular, we investigate whether the inflows of remittances help to offset the effects of financial constraints and income shocks on the...

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Why Migrants' Remittances Reduce Income Inequality in some Countries and not in Others?

Ebeke, Christian; Goff, Maëlan Le - HAL - 2011

According to the literature, the eﬀect of remittances on income inequality in origin countries of migrants is not clear, whatever empirical approach is used. Aiming at clearing up this ambiguity, some authors took into account the historical, social or economic context of the home countries...

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Remittances, Public Health Spending and Foreign Aid in the Access to Health Care Services in Developing Countries

Drabo, Alassane; Ebeke, Christian - HAL - 2011

The aim of this paper is to analyze the respective impacts of remittances, health aid and public spending on the access to health care services in developing countries. The specific objectives are threefold. Firstly, we quantify the differential impacts of remittances on the access to public and...

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Impact of Income Inequality on Health: Does Environment Quality Matter?

Drabo, Alassane - HAL - 2011

This paper examines the link between health indicators, environmental variables and income inequalities. Theoretically, all the mechanisms developed in the literature underline a negative impact of income inequality on health status. However, empirical studies find different results and the...

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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental variables and fixed effect estimates show that internet use is associated …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003934

On the Inconsistency of Instrumental Variables Estimators for the Coefficients of Certain Dummy Variables

Giles, David E. - Department of Economics, University of Victoria - 2011

In this paper we consider the asymptotic properties of the Instrumental Variables (IV) estimator of the parameters in a …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004104

Mafia and Public Spending: Evidence on the Fiscal Multiplier from a Quasi-experiment

Acconcia, Antonio; Corsetti, Giancarlo; Simonelli, Saverio - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2011

We estimate the multiplier by relying on differences in spending in infrastructure across Italian provinces and an instrument identifying investment changes that are large and exogenous to local cyclical conditions. We derive our instrument from the an Italia law mandating the interruption of...

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Capital Structure and the Redeployability of Tangible Assets

Campello, Murillo; Giambona, Erasmo - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

assets is a main determinantof corporate leverage. To establish this link, our analysis uses an instrumental variables …

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Identifying the Weights in Exchange Market Pressure

Klaassen, Franc - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Exchange market pressure (EMP) measures the pressure on a currency to depreciate. It adds to the actual depreciation a weighted combination of policy instruments used to ward off depreciation, such as interest rates and foreign exchange interventions, where the weights are their effectiveness....

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A Comparison of Bias Approximations for the 2SLS Estimator

Bun, Maurice J.G.; Windmeijer, Frank - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176511002242">'Economics Letters'</A> 113(1), 76-79.<p> We consider the bias of the 2SLS estimator in the linear instrumental … variables regression with one endogenous regressor only. By using asymptotic expansion techniques we approximate 2SLS …

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