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Improving Exports: Quasi‐Experimental Evidence From the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Open
In recent times, discussions have arisen about the potential trade benefits that agricultural commodity exchanges can bring to economies reliant on agriculture. This study employs a quasi‐natural experimental approach to investigate the ta…
Does lifelong learning matter for the subjective wellbeing of the elderly? A machine learning analysis on Singapore data Open
Our study explores whether lifelong learning is associated with the subjective wellbeing among the elderly in Singapore. Through a primary survey of 300 individuals aged 65 and above, we develop a novel index to capture three different asp…
Slowing Workforce Growth: Predicting Labour Trends and Investigating Perspectives of Mature Workers and Women With Caregiving Responsibilities Open
The labour force is experiencing an increased proportion of mature workers, alongside a slowdown in the number of young entrants joining the workforce. Many organisations will need to adapt their workforce management strategies to cushion …
The impact of urban population on housing cost: the case of Australia Open
Rapid population expansions in urban areas have significant implications for housing costs, creating challenges for housing affordability. However, estimating the causal effect of population on housing costs is challenging due to various c…
The Impact of Urban Population on Housing Cost: The Case of Australia Open
Rapid population expansions in urban areas have significant implications for housing costs, creating challenges for housing affordability. However, estimating the causal effect of population on housing costs is challenging due to various c…
Meritocratic beliefs and economic growth: A mediating effect of economic inequality Open
Meritocratic beliefs are defined as people's beliefs in the importance of hard work in societal success relative to other structural factors. As economic inequality grows, the plausibility of fair meritocracy has been called into a questio…
View article: Real exchange rate misalignment and business cycle fluctuations in the<scp>Asia‐Pacific</scp>
Real exchange rate misalignment and business cycle fluctuations in the<span>Asia‐Pacific</span> Open
Real exchange rate (RER) misalignment, which is the deviation between the actual real exchange rate from its equilibrium, occurs frequently among developing countries. Studies have shown that RER misalignment may have negative economic imp…
dewolf: Improving Decompilation by leveraging User Surveys Open
Analyzing third-party software such as malware is a crucial task for security analysts.Although various approaches for automatic analysis exist and are the subject of ongoing research, analysts often have to resort to manual static analysi…
dewolf: Improving Decompilation by leveraging User Surveys Open
Analyzing third-party software such as malware or firmware is a crucial task for security analysts. Although various approaches for automatic analysis exist and are the subject of ongoing research, analysts often have to resort to manual s…
View article: Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Asia and the Pacific
Real Exchange Rate Misalignment and Business Cycle Fluctuations in Asia and the Pacific Open
This paper investigates the impact of real exchange rate (RER) misalignment on business cycles among 22 economies in Asia and the Pacific from 1990 to 2018. It employs a panel vector autoregression involving consumer price index (CPI) infl…
The Impact of Microcredit Loans on School Enrolment in Bangladesh Open
Human capital investment, especially in education, is a well-known precursor of economic growth in developing countries. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of microfinance programmes, yet evidence on whether microfinance leads…
Data for: Did Rainfall Shocks Cause Civil Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa? Implications of Data Revisions Open
DataRevisions.do is the Stata "do" file to replicate the results reported in the paper. ejpe_29_dec_2018.data is the Stata data file.
Optimising finite-difference methods for PDEs through parameterised time-tiling in Devito Open
Finite-difference methods are widely used in solving partial differential equations. In a large problem set, approximations can take days or weeks to evaluate, yet the bulk of computation may occur within a single loop nest. The modelling …
DO EXPORTS LEAD TO MORE WOMEN EMPOWERMENT? SOME INSIGHTS FROM THE GENDER SPECIFIC EFFECTS OF EXPORTS ON LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN INDONESIA Open
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