Asset-Building and Microfinance: An Econometric Analysis

An Analysis of Village-level Microfinance Institutions

This paper uses variation in policies and institutional characteristics to evaluate the impacts of village-level microfinance institutions in rural Thailand. To identify impacts, we use policies related to the successful/unsuccessful provision of services as exogenous variation in effective financial intermediation. We find that institutions, particularly those with good policies, can promote a...

Young people and alcohol: an econometric analysis.

AIMS To analyse the determinants of youth drinking behaviour within an economic -theoretical framework. The paper focuses especially on the effects of (a) having parents willing to supply alcohol, (b) living in a single-parent household, (c) having parents who are currently unemployed and (d) having received education about alcohol, narcotics and tobacco. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A Sw...

An Examination of Some Tools for Macro-Econometric Model Building

Building an Ontology and Process Architecture for Engineering Asset Management

(2009) Building an ontology and process architecture for engineering asset management.

An Econometric Analysis of Voluntary Contributions

Contributions to public goods simulated in economists' laboratory experiments have two peculiarities from the perspective of statistical modelling. There is a variety of contributor behaviours (Ledyard, 1995), suggestive perhaps of separate classes of individuals, and contributions are doubly censored. We present an econometric model of contributions in sequential play, which takes into account...