Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes … a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41 countries in LAC, in which both inequality and total factor … with the literature. When compared with a model using data from 188 countries, inequality has an impact ten-fold higher in …

. Second, using a unique farm level panel data set from the FADN for the period 1995-2007 we employ the fixed effects, the …

panel regressions. Effects on productivity growth, capital and labor inputs as well as innovation activities are …

GMM estimation of autoregressive panel data equations in error-ridden variables when the noise has memory, is … country panel data supplements the simulation results. …

conflict and disaster. We exploit a large panel dataset that includes official development aid, and information about the … youth cohort as exogenous instrument for conflict. -- Disaster ; Conflict ; Aid Allocation ; Longitudinal Panel Methods …

informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic … the empirical literature because it studies the effect of the interaction between growth and corruption in the informal …, economic growth interacts with corruption and produces negative net effects up to a corruption threshold of 4.79745 when this …

pollution ; shadow economy ; corruption ; panel data …We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can …

The study assesses the role of financial development on income inequality in a panel of 48 African countries for the …, three indicators of inequality are used, namely, the: Gini coefficient, Atkinson index and Palma ratio. The empirical … hypothesis: a humped shaped nexus between increasing GDP per capita and inequality. Policy implications are discussed. …