Stephen D Younger
Biographic Data
| ID | 237199 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen D Younger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen D |
| FAMILY NAME | Younger |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNGER S D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Transfer payments, mothers' income and child health in ecuador
We evaluate the impact of the Bono Solidario, a transfer payment scheme in Ecuador, on children's nutritional status. In addition to testing for pure income effects, because the programme transferred money to mothers of young children, we test whether mother's income has a stronger effect on children's heights and weights than ordinary household income. We draw two main conclusions: that the Bono Solidario transfer payment scheme has had a statis…
The joint demand for health care, leisure, and commodities: Implications for health care finance and access in Vietnam
This paper explores linkages between the demand for health care providers and the consumption of food, non-food goods, and leisure in Vietnam, using a mixed continuous/discrete dependent variable model. Cross-price elasticities calculated from the model suggest there are strong substitution effects between health care, leisure, and certain commodities. The model allows us to explore the implications of replacing user fees with alternative forms o…
Robust Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda
We investigate spatial poverty comparisons in three African countries using multidimensional indicators of well-being. The work is analogous to the univariate stochastic dominance literature in that we seek poverty orderings that are robust to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines and indices. In addition, we wish to ensure that our comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures for multiple welfare variables. In contrast to earlier work…
Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons
We demonstrate how to make poverty comparisons using multidimensional indicators of well-being, showing in particular how to check whether the comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures and to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines. In contrast to earlier work, our methodology applies equally well to what can be defined as 'union', 'intersection' or 'intermediate' approaches to dealing with multidimensional indicators of well-being. T…
Improvements in children’s health: Does inequality matter
Decomposing world health inequality
A Reply to De Maio, Stewart, and van der Hoeven
Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa
Exchange rate, fiscal and agricultural policies in Africa: Does adjustment hurt the poor
Trade, exchange rate, fiscal, and agricultural sector policy reforms are the pillars of structural adjustment programs in Africa. Results indicate that trade and exchange rate reforms are associated with a large decline in economic rents and a shift in relative prices that favor the rural and urban poor. Fiscal reforms have not brought about draconian belt-tightening measures, although the incidence of public spending, particularly in the social …
The economic impact of a foreign debt bail‐out for private firms in Ecuador
In this article the effect of Ecuador's general foreign debt conversion programme on private firms' financial position is analysed. The programme, called the Sucretización, was similar to programmes implemented by many heavily indebted countries after the debt crisis began. I concentrate on the Sucretización's implicit transfer from the government to firms, arguing that it was large, but unnecessary. Very few firms would have gone bankrupt becaus…
Aid and the Dutch disease: Macroeconomic management when everybody loves you
Countries that undertake serious and sustained programs of stabilization and structural adjustment should expect to attract significant new inflows of capital from donor countries and international institutions. While apparently beneficial, those flows can work at crosspurpose with other goals of the policy reforms. In particular, abundant foreign exchange loans can force an appreciation of the real exchange rate (often through domestic inflation…
Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons
We demonstrate how to make poverty comparisons using multidimensional indicators of well-being, showing in particular how to check whether the comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures and to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines. In contrast to earlier work, our methodology applies equally well to what can be defined as 'union', 'intersection' or 'intermediate' approaches to dealing with multidimensional indicators of well-being. T…
Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa
Aid and the Dutch disease: Macroeconomic management when everybody loves you
Countries that undertake serious and sustained programs of stabilization and structural adjustment should expect to attract significant new inflows of capital from donor countries and international institutions. While apparently beneficial, those flows can work at crosspurpose with other goals of the policy reforms. In particular, abundant foreign exchange loans can force an appreciation of the real exchange rate (often through domestic inflation…
Exchange rate, fiscal and agricultural policies in Africa: Does adjustment hurt the poor
Trade, exchange rate, fiscal, and agricultural sector policy reforms are the pillars of structural adjustment programs in Africa. Results indicate that trade and exchange rate reforms are associated with a large decline in economic rents and a shift in relative prices that favor the rural and urban poor. Fiscal reforms have not brought about draconian belt-tightening measures, although the incidence of public spending, particularly in the social …
Improvements in children’s health: Does inequality matter
Aid and the Dutch disease: Macroeconomic management when everybody loves you
Countries that undertake serious and sustained programs of stabilization and structural adjustment should expect to attract significant new inflows of capital from donor countries and international institutions. While apparently beneficial, those flows can work at crosspurpose with other goals of the policy reforms. In particular, abundant foreign exchange loans can force an appreciation of the real exchange rate (often through domestic inflation…
The economic impact of a foreign debt bail‐out for private firms in Ecuador
In this article the effect of Ecuador's general foreign debt conversion programme on private firms' financial position is analysed. The programme, called the Sucretización, was similar to programmes implemented by many heavily indebted countries after the debt crisis began. I concentrate on the Sucretización's implicit transfer from the government to firms, arguing that it was large, but unnecessary. Very few firms would have gone bankrupt becaus…
Exchange rate, fiscal and agricultural policies in Africa: Does adjustment hurt the poor
Trade, exchange rate, fiscal, and agricultural sector policy reforms are the pillars of structural adjustment programs in Africa. Results indicate that trade and exchange rate reforms are associated with a large decline in economic rents and a shift in relative prices that favor the rural and urban poor. Fiscal reforms have not brought about draconian belt-tightening measures, although the incidence of public spending, particularly in the social …
A Reply to De Maio, Stewart, and van der Hoeven
Structural Adjustment Reconsidered: Economic Policy and Poverty in Africa
Decomposing world health inequality
Improvements in children’s health: Does inequality matter
Robust Multidimensional Spatial Poverty Comparisons in Ghana, Madagascar, and Uganda
We investigate spatial poverty comparisons in three African countries using multidimensional indicators of well-being. The work is analogous to the univariate stochastic dominance literature in that we seek poverty orderings that are robust to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines and indices. In addition, we wish to ensure that our comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures for multiple welfare variables. In contrast to earlier work…
Robust Multidimensional Poverty Comparisons
We demonstrate how to make poverty comparisons using multidimensional indicators of well-being, showing in particular how to check whether the comparisons are robust to aggregation procedures and to the choice of multidimensional poverty lines. In contrast to earlier work, our methodology applies equally well to what can be defined as 'union', 'intersection' or 'intermediate' approaches to dealing with multidimensional indicators of well-being. T…
Transfer payments, mothers' income and child health in ecuador
We evaluate the impact of the Bono Solidario, a transfer payment scheme in Ecuador, on children's nutritional status. In addition to testing for pure income effects, because the programme transferred money to mothers of young children, we test whether mother's income has a stronger effect on children's heights and weights than ordinary household income. We draw two main conclusions: that the Bono Solidario transfer payment scheme has had a statis…
The joint demand for health care, leisure, and commodities: Implications for health care finance and access in Vietnam
This paper explores linkages between the demand for health care providers and the consumption of food, non-food goods, and leisure in Vietnam, using a mixed continuous/discrete dependent variable model. Cross-price elasticities calculated from the model suggest there are strong substitution effects between health care, leisure, and certain commodities. The model allows us to explore the implications of replacing user fees with alternative forms o…
Economics (9 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Exchange rate (4 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (4 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Economic policy (3 works) · Geography (3 works)