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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"crowding out"”.

  1. Crowding-out Of Household Expenditure By Tobacco In Ghana

    Masa-ud, Abdul Gafar AbubakarSchool of Economics2019

    … expenditure in Ghanaian households is crowded out by expenditure on tobacco over the period under study (2005/2006 and 2012/2013) and whether the magnitude of crowding-out over the period has been changed by the introduction of the tobacco control law in July, 2012. The paper uses household …

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  2. External shocks, public sector disequilibrium and crowding-out in the Brazilian economy, 1970-1987

    Batista, Paulo Cesar de SousaUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2011

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  3. Donor funding and crowding out of public spending: Evidence from low and middle-income countries

    Shine, Ritta SabbasResearch of GSB2015

    In many low-resource settings agricultural output and public spending on agriculture are in decline, raising questions about the effectiveness of agricultural aid. To understand why these trends are occurring, we examined factors that affect the share of government spending on agriculture. Using a …

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  4. Two Essays Analyzing the Behavioral Economics Underlying Health Decisions: Delay Discounting and Crowding Out Effect

    Woo, YuriVirginia Tech2018

    … it plays a role in producing numerous health outcomes, such as obesity. It is important to understand how the delay discounting process relates to unhealthy diets. People who discount the value of future outcomes prefer immediate rewards (e.g., enjoyment/taste) even though a larger reward from …

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  5. Alternative Modes of Federal Deficit Financing, Money Growth, Inflation, Interest Rates and the Crowding-Out Effect

    Wohar, Mark EliasUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … generate inflationary pressures; (iii) crowd out private investment thus decreasing economic growth; and (iv) increase the public debt.

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  6. Exploring the Relation Between Sectoral Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment: Case for Turkey

    Erkan, Selin2018

    … Turkey during 2005Q1-2016Q2 to see if there is a crowding-in or crowding-out relationship. Sectoral FDI data for manufacturing, agriculture and service are employed and gross fixed capital formation is used as a proxy for domestic investment. GDP and export are used as control variables. A VAR …

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  7. Economic and health implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa: a household expenditure analysis

    Chisha, ZundaSchool of Economics2025

    … implications of tobacco and alcohol use in South Africa. Issues covered include the crowding-out effect of tobacco expenditure on household expenses, and the impact of parental tobacco and alcohol consumption on child health outcomes. The thesis emphasises the interconnectedness of tobacco …

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  8. Investigating the causes and effects of weak corporate governance that hinder successful performance of African National Development Banks: a case study of Development Bank of Zambia

    Kambobe, ChandaResearch of GSB2017

    … has its effects, these were identified as crowding out of the private sector, misallocation of funds and low profitability. A positive correlation was found between the African National Development Bank lending and private bank lending an indication that the African National Development …

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  9. Essays on Malawian agriculture: Micro-level welfare impacts of agricultural productivity; profitability of fertilizer use; and targeting of fertilizer subsidy programs

    Darko, Francis Addeah

    … is measured by maize yield and value of crop output per hectare. Depending on the measure of welfare, the impact of agricultural productivity was estimated with a household fixed effects estimator, a two-part estimator or a correlated-random effects ordered probit estimator. The results …

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  10. Crowded Out: The Effect of Sex Ratios on the Sex Worker Labor Market and Migration in India

    Dickerson, Michael2016

    … of sex workers in a local market leads to a crowding out effect, and pushes the women to migrate to districts with more men than women. This paper contributes to the literature by bringing more clarity to how the labor market impacts the decisions of sex workers.</p>

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  11. Does public debt spur or hinder economic growth in Zambia?

    Siyanga, MalumoResearch of GSB2018

    … results indicate that both the debt overhang and crowding out effects occur in Zambia. The study recommends that the government should develop a debt management policy, improve macroeconomic management, borrow prudently, improve project appraisal and selection, investing in productivity-enhancing …

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  12. Economic Aspects of Crop Pest Management and Monarch Conservation

    Thakur, Tiesta2020

    … and control functions to test for motivation crowding out. Findings indicate motivation crowding out at modest levels of compensation. Alternatively, high remuneration crowds in farmers motivation to conserve Monarchs. The second chapter estimate soybean farmers' value of information provided …

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  13. Inward foreign direct investment and productivity: evidence from Vietnamese microdata

    Pham, Pham, Thi My HanhUniversity of Greenwich2017

    … thesis investigates the direct, indirect and crowding-in/crowding-out effects of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on firm productivity in Vietnam; and whether the effects are heterogeneous across firm and industry characteristics and geographic regions. Using a Cobb-Douglas production …

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  14. Der Einfluss der leistungsorientierten Bezahlung auf die Public Service Motivation und die intrinsische Motivation von Beschäftigten im öffentlichen Sektor : ein empirischer Test der Motivation Crowding Theory am Beispiel der Kreisverwaltung Potsdam-Mittelmark

    Faasch, BrittaUniversität Potsdam

    … einer Verdrängung der intrinsischen Motivation (Crowding-Out Effekt) führen kann. Mithilfe eines empirischen Tests der Motivation Crowding Theorie gelangt diese Arbeit zu einem differenzierteren Urteil. Es wird gezeigt, dass im Beispiel der Kreisverwaltung Potsdam Mittelmark die subjektive …

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  15. The Role of Heterogeneous Research and Development Funds in The Productivity of The u.s. Manufacturing Industry (United States)

    Rhee, Chong OokUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2014

    … statement that federally-funded R&D (FRD) crowds out or pulls in company-funding R&D in productivity growth. Whether crowding-out or pulling-in is shown in my paper to be industry-specific as well as based on FRD's time dimension. Hence the lag effect of heterogeneous R&D funds on productivity is …

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  16. Making Ice Cream in Tehran: A Field Experiment on the Impact of Attendance Incentives for Street Working Children

    Safarha, Elnaz2015

    … and higher performance, other works point to crowding out of intrinsic motivations and other externalities. This study reports the results of an experiment conducted with children usually working in the streets of Tehran (Iran) on the effectiveness of non-monetary incentives on school …

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  17. Essays on Taxation and Fiscal Policy

    Quaicoe, Nana

    … alters how fiscal policy affects consumption, output, and labor in developing countries when compared to standard representative agent models. Second, we find that shocks are more subdued in the two agent model than the representative agent model when simulated with data for developing …

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  18. Role of Public Procurement in Improving the Consumption of Millets

    Yadav, ShwetaCornell University2023

    … particularly rice, and wheat, resulted in the crowding out of traditional micronutrient-rich food crops. This study attempts to estimate the consumption-related impacts of extending public procurement to millets. In doing so, the broader objective is to support healthy diet diversification …

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  19. Social safety nets in presence of weather shocks: three essays on development economics from village economies in Kenya

    Ongudi, Silas OkechSchool of Economics2022

    … Hunger Safety Net Program, HSNP) on a range of outcomes. In all the chapters, we use data from HSNP transfer collected in the four districts (namely, Turkana, Marsabit, Mandera and Wajir) of Kenya covering 2009-2012. The central theme of this thesis is to contribute towards discussion around the …

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  20. Testing the relationship between public and private transfers : empirical evidence from South Africa

    Chennells, Matthew JohnSchool of Economics2015

    … paper adds to the literature by analysing this 'crowding out' hypothesis in a South African context, using the country's relatively generous state pension program and history of migratory remittance transfers as its basis. I use data from the first three waves of the National Income Dynamics …

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