Joseph J Capuno
Biographic Data
| ID | 1735813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph J Capuno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph J |
| FAMILY NAME | Capuno |
| SIGNATURE | CAPUNO J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Philippines Diliman |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3879-9551 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The decline of child stunting in 122 countries
INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…
Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines
Wealthier Filipinos have higher predicted CVD risks and greater exposure to all risk factors, except smoking. There is need for a nuanced approach to CVD prevention that targets anti-smoking programmes on the poorer population while targeting diet and exercise interventions on the wealthier
Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention
Getting Filipinos to health clinics responsible for opportunistic CVD risk screening had a muted impact on exposure to CVD prevention and no significant impact on health behaviour and predicted CVD risk. Issuing well-founded protocols may be insufficient to ensure exposure to CVD prevention through routine clinic visits
Dutertenomics
In 2016, when Rodrigo Duterte was elected Philippine President the economy was growing robustly. Despite the record growth, his election is considered a populist revolt of the middle‐ and upper‐class Filipinos. Yet, his economic policies – from his initial 10‐point agenda to the laws he approved – are liberal. This paper distinguishes and relates Duterte's authoritarian‐populist political style (“Dutertismo”) and his economic agenda (“Dutertenomi…
What drive the local incidence of crime, shadow economy and resource-related conflicts in Mindanao, Philippines? Evidence of spillover effects
Together with Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, Philippines is among the Asian countries with long history of violent subnational or local conflicts. These conflicts have also exacted heavy tolls in terms of loss in human lives, economic welfare and public resources. Towards a better understanding of local conflicts in the Philippines, we estimate negative binomial regression models using a panel of cities and municipalities in the Autonomous Re…
Health conditions, payments, proximity, and opportunity costs
Cooking and coughing
Household air pollution (HAP) arising from the use of solid fuels for cooking is known to have adverse health effects including acute respiratory infections in children, which remains a major public health concern in developing countries. Hence, various interventions to reduce HAP have been advocated or piloted in many countries. To provide additional evidence on the effectiveness and applicability of the interventions in various settings, we inv…
An Oaxaca-decomposition analysis of popular support for democracy in Southeast Asian countries
Recent decades witnessed economic and political developments in Asia, especially in the Southeast Asia region, that warrant a re-examination of popular support for democracy among socioeconomic classes in the region. Using the 2010--2012 round of the Asian Barometer Survey, we constructed seven indicators of support for democracy and three socioeconomic classes for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The tests of proportions…
Views and Values on Family among Filipinos
Incumbents and Innovations under Decentralization
Like in other developing countries, many local governments in the Philippines have become innovative under decentralization. We investigate here the drivers of local innovations, with focus on quality of incumbent leaders, their political incentives and fiscal resources. We applied Poisson regressions on a survey data comprising 209 innovations introduced in 48 cities and municipalities during the period June 2004–June 2008. The statistically sig…
Can Information about Local Government Performance Induce Civic Participation? Evidence from the Philippines
The question of whether people are motivated to engage in civic activities once informed of their local government's performance is relevant to many developing countries that adopted decentralisation. Applying propensity score matching technique on a unique household-level dataset from the Philippines, it is found that the knowledge of an index of local government performance has positive and statistically significant effects on the likelihood of…
Is Local Development Good Politics? Local Development Expenditures and the Re-Election of Governors in the Philippines in the 1990s
Are incumbent governors who put more weight on development spending likely to be re-elected? To answer this question, an economic model of a re-electionist local chief executive is introduced and validated with a panel data of provincial governors who ran for another term of office during the election years 1992, 1995 and 1998 in the Philippines. It is found that incumbent governors improve their re-election chances with higher spending on econom…
Is Local Development Good Politics? Local Development Expenditures and the Re-Election of Governors in the Philippines in the 1990s
Are incumbent governors who put more weight on development spending likely to be re-elected? To answer this question, an economic model of a re-electionist local chief executive is introduced and validated with a panel data of provincial governors who ran for another term of office during the election years 1992, 1995 and 1998 in the Philippines. It is found that incumbent governors improve their re-election chances with higher spending on econom…
Views and Values on Family among Filipinos
Dutertenomics
In 2016, when Rodrigo Duterte was elected Philippine President the economy was growing robustly. Despite the record growth, his election is considered a populist revolt of the middle‐ and upper‐class Filipinos. Yet, his economic policies – from his initial 10‐point agenda to the laws he approved – are liberal. This paper distinguishes and relates Duterte's authoritarian‐populist political style (“Dutertismo”) and his economic agenda (“Dutertenomi…
Incumbents and Innovations under Decentralization
Like in other developing countries, many local governments in the Philippines have become innovative under decentralization. We investigate here the drivers of local innovations, with focus on quality of incumbent leaders, their political incentives and fiscal resources. We applied Poisson regressions on a survey data comprising 209 innovations introduced in 48 cities and municipalities during the period June 2004–June 2008. The statistically sig…
Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention
Getting Filipinos to health clinics responsible for opportunistic CVD risk screening had a muted impact on exposure to CVD prevention and no significant impact on health behaviour and predicted CVD risk. Issuing well-founded protocols may be insufficient to ensure exposure to CVD prevention through routine clinic visits
Health conditions, payments, proximity, and opportunity costs
Is Local Development Good Politics? Local Development Expenditures and the Re-Election of Governors in the Philippines in the 1990s
Are incumbent governors who put more weight on development spending likely to be re-elected? To answer this question, an economic model of a re-electionist local chief executive is introduced and validated with a panel data of provincial governors who ran for another term of office during the election years 1992, 1995 and 1998 in the Philippines. It is found that incumbent governors improve their re-election chances with higher spending on econom…
Can Information about Local Government Performance Induce Civic Participation? Evidence from the Philippines
The question of whether people are motivated to engage in civic activities once informed of their local government's performance is relevant to many developing countries that adopted decentralisation. Applying propensity score matching technique on a unique household-level dataset from the Philippines, it is found that the knowledge of an index of local government performance has positive and statistically significant effects on the likelihood of…
Incumbents and Innovations under Decentralization
Like in other developing countries, many local governments in the Philippines have become innovative under decentralization. We investigate here the drivers of local innovations, with focus on quality of incumbent leaders, their political incentives and fiscal resources. We applied Poisson regressions on a survey data comprising 209 innovations introduced in 48 cities and municipalities during the period June 2004–June 2008. The statistically sig…
Views and Values on Family among Filipinos
Cooking and coughing
Household air pollution (HAP) arising from the use of solid fuels for cooking is known to have adverse health effects including acute respiratory infections in children, which remains a major public health concern in developing countries. Hence, various interventions to reduce HAP have been advocated or piloted in many countries. To provide additional evidence on the effectiveness and applicability of the interventions in various settings, we inv…
An Oaxaca-decomposition analysis of popular support for democracy in Southeast Asian countries
Recent decades witnessed economic and political developments in Asia, especially in the Southeast Asia region, that warrant a re-examination of popular support for democracy among socioeconomic classes in the region. Using the 2010--2012 round of the Asian Barometer Survey, we constructed seven indicators of support for democracy and three socioeconomic classes for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. The tests of proportions…
What drive the local incidence of crime, shadow economy and resource-related conflicts in Mindanao, Philippines? Evidence of spillover effects
Together with Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, Philippines is among the Asian countries with long history of violent subnational or local conflicts. These conflicts have also exacted heavy tolls in terms of loss in human lives, economic welfare and public resources. Towards a better understanding of local conflicts in the Philippines, we estimate negative binomial regression models using a panel of cities and municipalities in the Autonomous Re…
Health conditions, payments, proximity, and opportunity costs
Dutertenomics
In 2016, when Rodrigo Duterte was elected Philippine President the economy was growing robustly. Despite the record growth, his election is considered a populist revolt of the middle‐ and upper‐class Filipinos. Yet, his economic policies – from his initial 10‐point agenda to the laws he approved – are liberal. This paper distinguishes and relates Duterte's authoritarian‐populist political style (“Dutertismo”) and his economic agenda (“Dutertenomi…
Effectiveness of clinic-based cardiovascular disease prevention
Getting Filipinos to health clinics responsible for opportunistic CVD risk screening had a muted impact on exposure to CVD prevention and no significant impact on health behaviour and predicted CVD risk. Issuing well-founded protocols may be insufficient to ensure exposure to CVD prevention through routine clinic visits
Risk factor contributions to socioeconomic inequality in cardiovascular risk in the Philippines
Wealthier Filipinos have higher predicted CVD risks and greater exposure to all risk factors, except smoking. There is need for a nuanced approach to CVD prevention that targets anti-smoking programmes on the poorer population while targeting diet and exercise interventions on the wealthier
The decline of child stunting in 122 countries
INTRODUCTION: Child stunting, a measure of malnutrition, is a major global health challenge affecting 148.1 million children in 2022. Global stunting rates have declined from 47.2% in 1985 to 22.3% in 2022; however, trends before the mid-1980s are unclear, including whether child stunting was previously prevalent in current high-income countries (HICs). We conducted a systematic review of child growth studies before 1990 to reconstruct historical…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public health (4 works) · Decentralization (3 works)