Data on businesses collected by statistical agencies are challenging to protect. Many businesses have unique characteristics, and distributions of employment, sales, and profits are highly skewed. Attackers wishing to conduct identification attacks often have access to much more information than...

The basic concept of multiple imputation is straightforward and easy to understand, but the application to real data imposes many implementation problems. To define useful imputation models for a dataset that consists of categorical and of continuous variables with distributions that are...

This study seeks to identify the engineering, behavioural and socio-economic determinants of childhood diarrhoea and its duration and to compute the resulting costs borne by slum dwellers. The study is based on a survey of 480 households in 32 slums in Dhaka.

We provide evidence that tighter monetary shocks reduce allocative efficiency, however, the effect of these shocks differs by firm characteristics such as markup, size, and age of firms. To identify the effect of these shocks, we use the Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model and the...

Place-based scholarships are often used as a policy to increase college enrollment rates and stimulate local economic development. A growing body of research indicates a positive correlation between such scholarships, academic performance, and out-migration. However, gaps in the research...