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Autor:
Eskander Alvi, Seife Dendir
Publikováno v:
Oxford Development Studies. 48:70-84
In this paper, we aim to provide robust estimates of wage returns to education in Ethiopia. Previous estimates vary widely based on the scope and size of the study sample, variables employed, and e...
Publikováno v:
Economics Bulletin. 35(2):1177-1184
This paper examines possible determinants of physicians' emigration from a wide set of developing countries, using count data analysis. We find that standard-of-living, health-infrastructure, and workload in source countries play important roles in s
Autor:
Eskander Alvi
Publikováno v:
Confronting Policy Challenges of the Great Recession: Lessons for Macroeconomic Policy
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https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::c380bd23a8dce0f41ac40a62907eb2b5
https://doi.org/10.17848/9780880996389.ch1
https://doi.org/10.17848/9780880996389.ch1
Autor:
Seife Dendir, Eskander Alvi
Publikováno v:
South African Journal of Economics. 83:101-116
This paper examines gender bias in the parental education-child status link using data from urban Ethiopia. Gender bias is defined here specifically as the differential impact of a parents education on a childs status depending on the gender of the p
Autor:
Eskander Alvi, Aberra Senbeta
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Developing Areas. 48:381-403
In this paper, we examine the aid-growth-poverty relation by using quantile regression, which enables us to estimate the impact of growth and growth enhancing policies at different quantiles in the conditional distribution of poverty. The coefficient
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics Letters. 20:1197-1201
Empirical literature examining the effectiveness of foreignaid on infant mortality, using mean regressions, has not found robust evidence in favour of foreignaid. The present article uses quantile regression technique to perform detailed scrutiny of
Autor:
Eskander Alvi, Aberra Senbeta
Publikováno v:
Oxford Development Studies. 40:139-161
This paper examines the effects of aid on sources of growth: capital accumulation and total factor productivity (TFP) growth; the latter captures the effect on growth after removing the contribution of factor accumulation. Given the role of TFP in ex
Autor:
Eskander Alvi, Debasri Mukherjee
Publikováno v:
Economics Research International. 2011:1-4
The policy view, which argues that foreign aid is effective only in a good policy environment, suggests that aid ought to be given to countries with good policies. This has generated a lot of interest and controversy. We argue that the key recommenda
Autor:
Eskander Alvi, Seife Dendir
Publikováno v:
Oxford Development Studies. 39:285-313
This paper examines the effects of sibling composition on children's school attendance and participation in market and domestic work in Ethiopia. The major finding is that earlier-born males in rural areas are more likely to attend school than their