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Water and Health in Egypt: An Empirical Analysis
(2003)
This thesis is an empirical work dealing with water issues in Egypt where the emphasis is put on the analysis of the relationship: inadequate water quality and health impacts. The first chapter includes a general discussion ...
Keeping Up with the Vaishyas: Caste and Relative Standing
(2005)
We investigate the importance of relative income within the Indian Caste system, using a choice experiment. We find that slightly more than half of the marginal utility of income comes from some kind of relative income ...
EXITS FROM LONG-TERM SICKNESS IN SWEDEN
(2001)
In this paper, we analyze exits from long-term sickness spells in Sweden. Using spell data for more than 2500 people, aged 20-64 years during 1986-1991, and who had at least one sickness spell of at least 60 days during ...
Should We Use Distributional Weights in CBA When Income Taxes Can Deal with Equity?
(2001)
Kaplow (1996) and others argue forcefully in favor of using the standard cost-benefit test alone, without any distributional concern, given "standard simplifying assumptions." This paper, on the contrary, ...
Second Order Approximation for the Average Marginal Effect of Heckman's Two Step Procedure
(2006)
In this paper we discuss the differences between the average marginal effect and the marginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by Heckman's two step procedure. We show that the bias ...
Essays on Labor Supply and Poverty: A microeconometric application
(2006)
This thesis consists of four papers in applied micro econometrics. The first paper evaluates the discrete choice labor supply Model by Monte Carlo experiment. The 2nd paper investigates the relationships between participation ...
Internal Migration of Natives and Immigrants Following Job Displacement
(2006)
In this paper discrete-time duration analysis is used to identify differences in the internal migration of immigrants and natives following job displacement. Human capital theory presents us with two hypotheses. One is ...
Real Exchange Rate Adjustment In European Transition Countries
(2006)
This paper presents unit-root test results for real exchange rates in ten Central and Eastern
European transition countries during 1993:01-2003:12. Because of the shift from controlled to
market economies and the ...