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Luiz R De Mello - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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more on the effectiveness of public spending on health care and education a covariance structure model
Journal of International Development, 2003Co-Authors: Emanuele Baldacci, Maria Teresa Guinsiu, Luiz R De MelloAbstract:Using data for a sample of developing countries and transition economies, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education and selected Social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where Social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public spending is an important determinant of Social outcomes, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach yields better estimates of a Social Production function than the traditional approach, with higher elasticities of Social indicators with respect to income and spending, therefore providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending do have a positive impact on Social outcomes. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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more on the effectiveness of public spending on health care and education a covariance structure model
Social Science Research Network, 2002Co-Authors: Emanuele Baldacci, Maria Teresa Guinsiu, Luiz R De MelloAbstract:Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and Social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where Social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public Social spending is an important determinant of Social indicators, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach was found to yield more adequate estimates of Social Production functions, with larger elasticities of Social indicators with respect to income and spending on education than the traditional approach, providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending have a positive impact on Social indicators. The study also finds that the millennium goal of universal primary education enrollment by 2015 could be achieved through an increase by one-third, on average, in education spending.
Emanuele Baldacci - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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more on the effectiveness of public spending on health care and education a covariance structure model
Journal of International Development, 2003Co-Authors: Emanuele Baldacci, Maria Teresa Guinsiu, Luiz R De MelloAbstract:Using data for a sample of developing countries and transition economies, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education and selected Social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where Social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public spending is an important determinant of Social outcomes, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach yields better estimates of a Social Production function than the traditional approach, with higher elasticities of Social indicators with respect to income and spending, therefore providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending do have a positive impact on Social outcomes. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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more on the effectiveness of public spending on health care and education a covariance structure model
Social Science Research Network, 2002Co-Authors: Emanuele Baldacci, Maria Teresa Guinsiu, Luiz R De MelloAbstract:Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and Social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where Social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public Social spending is an important determinant of Social indicators, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach was found to yield more adequate estimates of Social Production functions, with larger elasticities of Social indicators with respect to income and spending on education than the traditional approach, providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending have a positive impact on Social indicators. The study also finds that the millennium goal of universal primary education enrollment by 2015 could be achieved through an increase by one-third, on average, in education spending.
Maria Teresa Guinsiu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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more on the effectiveness of public spending on health care and education a covariance structure model
Journal of International Development, 2003Co-Authors: Emanuele Baldacci, Maria Teresa Guinsiu, Luiz R De MelloAbstract:Using data for a sample of developing countries and transition economies, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education and selected Social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where Social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public spending is an important determinant of Social outcomes, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach yields better estimates of a Social Production function than the traditional approach, with higher elasticities of Social indicators with respect to income and spending, therefore providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending do have a positive impact on Social outcomes. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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more on the effectiveness of public spending on health care and education a covariance structure model
Social Science Research Network, 2002Co-Authors: Emanuele Baldacci, Maria Teresa Guinsiu, Luiz R De MelloAbstract:Using data for a sample of developing and transition countries, this paper estimates the relationship between government spending on health care and education, and Social indicators. Unlike previous studies, where Social indicators are used as proxies for the unobservable health and education status of the population, this paper estimates a latent variable model. The findings suggest that public Social spending is an important determinant of Social indicators, particularly in the education sector. Overall, the latent variable approach was found to yield more adequate estimates of Social Production functions, with larger elasticities of Social indicators with respect to income and spending on education than the traditional approach, providing stronger evidence that increases in public spending have a positive impact on Social indicators. The study also finds that the millennium goal of universal primary education enrollment by 2015 could be achieved through an increase by one-third, on average, in education spending.
Setha M Low - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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spatializing culture the Social Production and Social construction of public space in costa rica
American Ethnologist, 1996Co-Authors: Setha M LowAbstract:In this article I explore how an integrated approach to the anthropological study of urban space would work ethnographically. I discuss four areas of spatial/cultural analysis—historical emergence, sociopolitical and economic structuring, patterns of Social use, and experiential meanings—as a means of working out of the methodological implications of broader Social construction theoretical perspectives. Two plazas in San Jose, Costa Rica, furnish ethnographic illustrations of the Social mediating processes of spatial practices, symbolic meaning, and Social control that provide insight into the conflicts that arise as different groups and sociopolitical forces struggle to claim and define these culturally significant public spaces. [urban space, ethnographic methods, plazas, Costa Rica, Social Production, Social construction]
John Riedl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the effects of group composition on decision quality in a Social Production community
International Conference on Supporting Group Work, 2010Co-Authors: Shyong K Lam, Jawed Karim, John RiedlAbstract:Online Social Production communities allow efficient construction of valuable and high-quality information sources. To be successful, community members must be effective at collaboration, including makink collective decisions in the presence of disagreement. We examined over 100,000 decisions made by small working groups in Wikipedia, and analyzed how decision quality in these online groups is influenced by four group composition factors: the size of the group, how members were invited to the group, the prior experience of group members, and apparent bias shown by the group administrator. Our findings lead us to recommendations for designers of Social Production communities.
