Published in Health policy and technology
: Since the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments globally have introduced policy measures to contain the spread of the virus. Popular COVID-19 containment measures include lockdowns of various forms (aggregated into government response stringency index [GRSI]) and handwashing (HWF). The effectiveness of these policy measures remains unclear in the a...
Background. Global sustainability is an enmeshed system of complex socio-economic, climato-logical and ecological interactions. The numerous objectives of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement have various levels of interdependence, making it difficult to ascertain the influence of changes in particular in...
This paper uses skin tone and income information for over a hundred thousand individuals across 31 Latin American countries to study racial inequalities during the last decade. First, I estimate the welfare consequences of racial inequality. Subnational regions with higher income inequality between racial groups have worse economic development. Nex...
Este trabalho busca descrever, em termos gerais, quais foram os principais fatores que determinaram o desenvolvimento industrial sul-coreano, com objetivo de entender com um olhar mais crítico o conjunto e a complexidade das variáveis que integram o esforço do desenvolvimento. A abordagem deste artigo leva em conta, ainda que brevemente, experiênci...
This dissertation contributes toward our understanding of social change and socio-economic development. Chapter 1 introduces multiple key factors driving social change and leading to economic and social development. In Chapter 2 to Chapter 4, by analyzing historical natural experiments, I study the role of information, social interactions, and huma...
This study examined the relationship between energy poverty and environmental quality using panel data of 9 ECOWAS nations for the period of 2000 to 2020. The study adopted cross-sectional Augmented Im, Pesaran, and Shinpanel unit root test and the panel non-linear Autoregressive Distributed Lag techniques as analytical tools with Foreign Direct In...
Investment in public transportation such as a metro line extension is often capitalized partially into housing values due to the spatiotemporal effects. Using housing transaction data from 2014 to 2019, this paper studies the Second Avenue Subway or Q-line extension in New York’s City’s Manhattan borough. Multiple metro station catchment areas were...
Background The rapid spread of COVID-19 renewed the focus on how health systems across the globe are financed, especially during public health emergencies. Development assistance is an important source of health financing in many low-income countries, yet little is known about how much of this funding was disbursed for COVID-19. We aimed to put dev...
Published in Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
During recent decades, culture is gaining more and more attention as a factor that determines economic outcomes. Trying to investigate its role on innovation and economic development, this paper uses a dataset that offers the potential for a cross-sectional and time series analysis. Thus, in this paper, the effects of culture on innovation (as meas...
The paper analyzes the development pathway of Quang Nam province in comparison with the whole economy, based on the dynamics of three strategic breakthroughs including institution, human capital and infrastructure. The research method combines qualitative and quantitative analysis, based on a sample of 63 provinces in Vietnam covering the 2010-2019...
