The aid allocation literature explores the motives behind development aid assistance. This literature is enormous, yet surprisingly, the extant empirical studies have in the main only focused on the motives of established donors. Consequently, relatively little is known of the motives of new donors. This paper explores the aid allocation motives of three relatively new DAC donors: Greece, Luxem...

Modernization and commercialization of the smallholder agricultural sector provides the stimulus and impetus to reducing food insecurity in developing countries. This study seeks to fill the gaps in the literature particularly by comprehensive conceptualization of the drivers of commercialization at a household level and across different socioeconomic and agro-ecological zonation in the wake of...

The paper investigates price dynamics under market liberalization, with a focus on the effects of lowering price floors. We analyze price dynamics by specifying and estimating a dynamic Tobit model under time-varying volatility, where the market price is censored by a government-set support price. The model is applied to the U.S. butter market over the last three decades. The econometric result...

The paper undertakes a comparative efficiency analysis of public bus transport in Spain using Data Envelopment Analysis. A procedure for efficiency evaluation was established with a view to estimating its technical and scale efficiency. Principal components analysis allowed us to reduce a large number of potential measures of supplyand demand-side and quality outputs in three statistical factor...

This paper presents an econometric analysis of the effects of price support programs and stocks on price dynamics and price volatility. Considering a price support program as a censoring mechanism, market prices are specified as a dynamic Tobit model with time varying volatility. The model is applied to the U.S. nonfat dry milk market to examine the impact of market liberalization on price dyna...

Methods We employed the Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, a multicentre, longitudinal, population-based birth cohort with 3,300 children to identify sources of phthalate exposures in infants. For the first 1,539 CHILD participants we examined associations between 6 urinary phthalate metabolites, measured at 3 months of age and corrected for specific gravity, with 9...

It is not rare to analyze large data sets these days. Large data is usually of census type and is called the micro data in econometrics. The basic method of analysis is to estimate a single regression equation with common coefficients over the whole data. The same applies to other method of estimation such as the discrete choice models, Tobit models, and so on. Heterogeneity in the data is usua...

We study how the information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem affects the sustainable growth of ICT firms. For our study, we analyze the efficiencies of ICT firms in China, South Korea, the United States, and Japan, which are the current leaders in the global ICT industry, each with different ICT ecosystem structures. We use metafrontier analysis (MFA) to compare the efficiencies a...

This paper investigates the extent to which the duration and the receipt of social assistance (SA) are linked between parents and children in Germany. Several related questions are addressed. Does parents’ SA duration increase the future welfare dependency of children? Given exposure of welfare at home, are daughters more likely to live on SA later on than sons? Are there any differences in the...

Intrahousehold Specialization in Housework in the United States and Denmark Objective: Focusing on housework activities, we construct a gender neutral composite index measure of intrahousehold specialization. We hypothesize that the degree of specialization is influenced by economic notions of efficiency, as well as by time constraints and egalitarian values. Methods: Employing time use data on...