scholarly journals Migration and fuel use in rural Zambia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Wu ◽  
Barbara Entwisle ◽  
Cyrus Sinai ◽  
Sudhanshu Handa
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Return Migration ◽  
Fuel Use ◽  
Migration Strategy ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Household Dynamics ◽  
Productive Labor ◽  
Migrant Remittances ◽  
Rural Zambia ◽  
Fuel Source

AbstractWhat is the effect of migration on fuel use in rural Zambia? Opportunities to increase income can be scarce in this setting; in response, households may pursue a migration strategy to increase resources as well as to mitigate risk. Migrant remittances may make it possible for households to shift from primary reliance on firewood to charcoal, and the loss of productive labor through migration may reinforce this shift. This paper uses four waves of panel data collected as part of the Child Grant Programme in rural Zambia to examine the connection between migration and the choice of firewood or charcoal as cooking fuel and finds evidence for both mechanisms. Importantly, this paper considers migration as a process, including out as well as return migration, embedding it in the context of household dynamics generally. Empirical results suggest that while out-migration helps move households away from firewood as a fuel source, return migration moves them back, but because the former is more common, the overall effect of migration is to shift households away from primary reliance on firewood.

scholarly journals Financial Depth and Efficiency, and Economic Growth Nexus in Saudi Arabia and Oman

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-112
Author(s):  
Abdullah Saeed ◽  
Shayem Saleh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Causal Relation ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Financial Deepening ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Financial Depth ◽  
Detrimental Impact

AbstractThis paper aims to examine the financial depth and efficiency and economic growth nexus in the context of Saudi Arabia and Oman. In particular, this paper addresses on how financial depth and efficiency relate to economic growth and the causal relation between financial depth and efficiency and the economic growth in Saudi Arabia and Oman. Methodological wise, this study employs a panel data of Saudi Arabia and Oman over the period of 1990 - 2015 and uses the determination of line of best to analyze the causal relations. The empirical results show that financial deepening have desirable effects on the economic growth in Oman, while increasing financial depth and efficiency has detrimental impact to economic growth of Saudi Arabia. Based on these empirical facts, we conclude that the financial deepening in Saudi Arabia is not an economic prioritized strategy, but financial deepening is an economic prioritized strategy in Oman. Two main policy implications are reached.

Rural Tourism Demand in Galicia, Spain

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fidel Martínez Roget ◽  
Xosé A. Rodríguez González
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Rural Tourism ◽  
Tourism Demand ◽  
Economic Cycle ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Travel Costs ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Overnight Stays

This paper is a study of rural tourism demand in Galicia by means of panel data. The dependent variable used is the number of overnight stays. Empirical results suggest that the number of overnight stays in rural tourism establishments depends basically on economic determinants, such as the price of services in rural tourism establishments, the extent of transport (travel) costs and the economic cycle (tourists' income). The income variable exhibits the highest elasticity. Besides the influence of economic determinants, rural tourism demand depends mainly on the reputation (prestige) and peculiarities of each establishment. In light of these results, conclusions are drawn and policy implications are discussed.

scholarly journals Awareness, Partisanship and the Post-Convention Bounce: A Memory-Based Model of Post-Convention Presidential Candidate Evaluations Part II—Empirical Results

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Grimmer
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Presidential Candidate ◽  
Presidential Election Of 2000 ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Political Partisanship ◽  
The Us ◽  
Candidate Evaluations ◽  
Us Presidential Election ◽  
Using Data

This paper continues an analysis, begun in the December 2004 issue, that employed panel data to estimate the effects of awareness and political partisanship on post-convention candidate evaluations. The derivation of a theoretical framework was discussed in Part 1 [1]. Empirical results using data from the US presidential election of 2000 are discussed in the present article. We find that partisans of the opposite party were more resistant to the convention message of Bush than Gore, that awareness played a greater role in determining a predicted post-convention change for Gore, and that Gore’s message was received and accepted at a higher rate than Bush’s message.

scholarly journals Smooth Earning, Annual Compensation and CEO Characteristics

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Lanouar Charfeddine ◽  
Wided Bouaine ◽  
Housine Smida
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Discretionary Accruals ◽  
Performance Level ◽  
Conflicts Of Interests ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Ceo Characteristics

The systems of compensation remain the main mean to reduce the conflicts of interests between chiefs executives officers (CEOs) and the shareholders. The CEOs  compensation is supposed to be positively correlated with the performance of the company. Consequently, the CEOs can managed profits to   determine their level of compensation or to increase the part of cash  and/or options in compensation. This paper investigates the relationship between the discretionary accruals and annual compensation, current performance, future performance, level of debts and total of assets by using a panel data analysis. Empirical results show that the CEO smoothes results of the company in order to have an evolutionary compensation. Moreover, we showed that the tenure and the proportion of property increase the opportunities of this smoothing and decreases the opportunism of the CEOs as soon as they are rooted.

Economic impact of floods in the Indian states

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yashobanta Parida
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Central Government ◽  
State Level ◽  
Indian States ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Political Alignment ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWe examine the impact of economic development and the role of political alignment on the fatalities and damages due to floods using state-level panel data for 19 Indian states over the period 1980–2011. The empirical results confirm that economic development leads to a decline in flood fatalities and damages due to floods across Indian states. This study also examines the role of politics in the prevention of flood fatalities. We find that both state election years and political alignment influence the extent of flood fatalities. The results suggest that not only economic development but also healthy political coordination between the central government and the states is essential to mitigate the impact of floods.

No Need for Draco’s Code: Evidence from China’s “Strike Hard” Campaigns

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850002
Author(s):  
FANG WANG ◽  
SHUO CHEN ◽  
DAN WANG
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Error ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Crime Rate ◽  
Detection Rate ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Pooled Mean Group ◽  
Reported Data ◽  
Lower Crime Rate

The occasional “strike hard” campaigns against crime launched by the Chinese government provide an opportunity to isolate the separate effects of severity and certainty of punishment on the crime rate. The “strike hard” campaigns increase the severity of the punishment but keep the certainty of the punishment unchanged. We use provincial panel data from 1988 to 2015 to examine the impacts of the two strategies on the crime rate with pooled mean group models. The empirical results show that a significant decrease in crime rates is associated with greater certainty of detection, but greater severity has no significant effect. A 1% increase in the detection rate (a measurement of certainty) predicts about 2.7% lower crime rate. The results are robust even after considering the endogenous nature of punishment policies and controlling for the measurement error in the officially reported data.

scholarly journals The Impact of Chair–Team Sociodemographic Dissimilarity on the Relation Between Chair Power and Entrepreneurial Ventures’ R&D Intensity: Evidence From China

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaoyi Zheng ◽  
Shufen Dai ◽  
Yueting Li ◽  
Yi Su
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Entrepreneurial Ventures ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Growth Enterprise Market ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
China’S Growth

Contemplating the actual leaders of entrepreneurial firms and socio demographic dissimilarity between leaders and their teams, this study adopts panel data on the entrepreneurial firms of the China’s Growth Enterprise Market and empirically examines the influence of chair power on research and development (R&D) intensity of entrepreneurial firms from the perspective of social identity. The results indicate that chair power positively affects entrepreneurial firms’ R&D intensity. The chair–team sociodemographic dissimilarity moderates the relationship in such a way that chair power is negatively related to entrepreneurial firms’ R&D intensity only when chair–team sociodemographic dissimilarity is high. The execution of robustness checks authenticates the veracity of the empirical results.

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