Financial information issued by companies is vital to investors and capital providers for their investment decisions, while factors that impact audit quality should be ascertained. In Jordan, the effect of ownership structure debt on has not been adequately studied. The current study purposes examine non-financial listed Amman Stock Exchange. represent independent variables in this study, depen...

Tujuan utama dari makalah ini adalah untuk menguji dampak corporate social responsibility (CSR) dan asimetri informasi terhadap kinerja keuangan perusahaan yang terdaftar di Bursa Efek Indonesia (BEI). Makalah menggunakan estimasi simultaneous equation models dengan pendekatan ordinary least squares (OLS) and two-stage (2SLS) 84 1.079 data pengamatan selama periode 2007-2019. Hasil penelitian m...

This paper exploits a unique long-horizon longitudinal data set from Tanzania to examine the long-run consequences of child labor on education, employment choices, and marital status. Using crop shocks as instruments, our 2SLS estimates indicate that child labor is causally associated with reduced educational attainment (both as measured by the number of school years as well as by an indicator ...

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...

The obesity rate in China has risen significantly in the past few decades. While a number of causes for the rise in obesity have been explored, little attention has been paid to the role of health insurance per se. This study aims to investigate the impact of health insurance on the risk of obesity in rural China using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS). We empl...

We present a simple agency model where agents can inflate the price that principals pay for goods needed to start an investment project. High and variable inflation is assumed to increase the cost of monitoring the agent. We then show how this can lead to higher corruption and lower investment in equilibrium. We also document a positive relationship between corruption and inflation variability ...

We use longitudinal data on over 1,500 children born in 2001 in Vietnam to study the impact of early childhood stunting on height, lagging in schooling progression and cognitive outcomes in late childhood (age 8-10 years). Our preferred estimates utilize 2SLS estimators to control for the endogenous determination of early childhood stunting and also include control for child sex and birth order...