Essays about: "Exogenous variables"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 51 essays containing the words Exogenous variables.

1. 21. Life expectancy and economic growth: AIDS as a natural experiment

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi med statistik

   Author : Andreas Bengtsson; Jessica Wirström; [2019-07-11]
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   Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine how life expectancy, as a measure for health, affects economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, the model specifications in this thesis include AIDS, which is assumed to have an exogenous effect on life expectancy. This effect is in turn regarded as a natural experiment for life expectancy. READ MORE

3. 22. Survival Bias and the Impact of HIV on Wealth in Sub-Saharan Africa

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Maxim Brüls; Johanna Dees; [2019-07-02]
   Keywords : HIV; Instrumental Variables Regressions; Rolling Window; Circumcision; Wealth; sub-Saharan Africa;

   Abstract : In this paper we estimate the effect of HIV-infection on household wealth. We use circumcision status as an instrumental variable, combined with DHS data, to obtain an exogenous variation in HIV on the individual level. READ MORE

4. 23. System error: Issues in humanitarian responses to early warning information for famine

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Author : Lidia Kalita; [2019]
   Keywords : famine; early warning information; early warning system; food insecurity; humanitarian response; systems theory; delay;

   Abstract : Humanitarian responses to famine early warning information are persistently delayed, despite immense improvements in understandings of famine and the quality of early warning systems. Famines are complex, slow-onset disasters that result in a high volume of needs, which are too large to be addressed by any one actor. READ MORE

5. 24. The Impact of Climatic Disasters on Output and Prices: A Panel VAR-X Approach

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Agnes Magnusson; [2019]
   Keywords : Natural disasters; Economic growth; Inflation; Climate change;

   Abstract : This paper sets out to study the short-term e ffects of climatic disasters on two macroeconomic variables: output and prices. The study makes use of a panel vector-autoregression model in the presence of endogenous variables and exogenous shocks (VAR-X), and applies it to a 1960--2017 cross-country panel. READ MORE

6. 25. Estimating the income elasticity of demand for international air travel : the financial crisis and its effect on irish income

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

   Author : Connor Craig; [2019]
   Keywords : income elasticity; international air travel demand; financial crisis; natural experiment;

   Abstract : During the 2008 financial crisis, aggregate income along with the number of air travellers in Ireland both decreased significantly. This thesis aims to estimate the income elasticity of demand for international air travel in Ireland using a difference-in-differences instrumental variables model (DID/IV), where Norway is used as a control group and the financial crisis serves as an exogenous instrument for a change in income. READ MORE