Ghana’s “Planting for Food and Job” programme aims to improve farmers’ access farm inputs. The idea is that through improved quality seed varieties, fertilisers good agronomic practices, output would increase leading an increased market surplus. This study sought investigate whether engagement in ‘Planting Job’ (PFJ ) influences households’ maize commercialization level Savelugu Municipality, t...

Several estimators have been suggested to tackle the problem of endogenous regressors and selectivity in count regression models. They differ in the structure and the degree of parameterization of the underlying models. The estimation of health services utilization conditional on the choice of different forms of health insurance provides a classical example of such problems. In Switzerland, bas...

Several estimators have been suggested to tackle the problem of endogenous regressors and selectivity in count regression models. They differ in the structure and the degree of parametrization of the underlying models. The estimation of health services utilization conditional on the choice of different forms of health insurance provides a classical example of such problems. In Switzerland, basi...

The Impact of Immigration on the Well-Being of Natives This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first paper to explore such nexus. Combining information from the German Socio-Economic Panel dataset with detailed local labour market characteristics for the period 1997 to 2007, we investigate how changes in...

It is well-known that early life conditions as well as marital status a¤ect health and mortality later in life. In this paper we analyze the interplay between these determinants of high-age mortality. First, we study the impact of economic conditions early in life on the individual rate of getting married. Secondly, we examine the protective e¤ect of marriage and, in particular, to what extent ...

Using a panel dataset from 1980 to 2000 this paper analyzes the determinants of income inequality in Latin American countries with special attention paid to education, health, and social security expenditures. I build on previous research by solving for the endogeneity of the social spending variables in the income inequality equation. This study undertakes 2SLS and GMM methods in order to cont...

in a novel dual bed reactor fischer-tropsch synthesis was studied by using two diffrent cobalt catalysts. an alkali-promoted cobalt catalyst was used in the first bed of a fixed-bed reactor followed by a rutenuim promoted cobalt catalyst in the second bed. the activity, product selectivity and accelerated deactivation of the system were assessed and compared with a conventional single bed react...

Using annual bilateral data over the period 1988-2011 for a panel of 24 industrialised and emerging economies, we analyse in a time-varying framework the determinants of output synchronisation in EMU (European Monetary Union) distinguishing between core and peripheral member states. The results support the specialisation paradigm rather than the endogeneity hypothesis. Evidence is found in the ...

This supplementary material contains the proof of Theorem 7.1 in the main paper. The following lemma is useful. Lemma 0.1. For a general loss function Ln, suppose it is twice differentiable in a neighborhood of β0. Assume max l / ∈S ∣∣∣∣∂Ln(β0) ∂βl ∣∣∣∣ = op(P ′ n(0)), (0.1) and there is a neighborhood U ⊂ R of β0S such that sup βS∈U max l / ∈S,j∈S ∣∣∣∣∂2Ln(βS, 0) ∂βl∂βj ∣∣∣∣ = op(P ′ n(0) skn ...