Henrik Hansen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3605056 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Henrik Hansen |
| NOMBRES | Henrik |
| APELLIDO | Hansen |
| FIRMA | HANSEN H |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0752-2915 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 213 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1986 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar
Good Business Practices Improve Productivity in Myanmar’s Manufacturing Sector
We investigate the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched employer and employee information from Myanmar. The data show that micro, small, and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar typically adopt only a few modern business practices, and the persistence in the use is extremely low. Even so, we find a positive and economically important association between business practices a…
Physical Function and Association with Cognitive Function in Patients in a Post-Covid-19 Clinic—A Cross-Sectional Study
Patients with long-term health sequelae of COVID-19 (post-COVID-19 condition) experience both physical and cognitive manifestations. However, there is still uncertainty about the prevalence of physical impairment in these patients and whether there is a link between physical and cognitive function. The aim was to assess the prevalence of physical impairment and investigate the association with cognition in patients assessed in a post-COVID-19 cli…
Sleep Quality and Self-Reported Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Are Associated with Physical Activity in Patients with Severe COPD
Sleep quantity, quality and symptoms of depression or anxiety potentially affect the level of daily physical activity (PAL) and plausibly counteracts benefits from pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Their collective impact on PAL is sparsely investigated, particularly in patients with severely progressed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Aim : To investigate if sleep quantity, quality and symptoms from self-reported hospital anxiety a…
On fiscal rules, gross domestic product forecasts and prediction of economic crises
This is a reply to Fredrik Anderson's (2022) article, 'Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy'. In 'Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy', Fredrik Anderson considers an aspect of the much-discussed problem of public debt targets in macroeconomic policy. The main message of the article is that '[T]he target for the debt ratio should be set low enough to allow the government to increase the public debt by 30 to 50 perc…
Traditional and modern employee benefits in Myanmar’s manufacturing sector
Employer-provided benefits are independent elements in the compensation packages that make up firms’ payment strategies. Such benefits are aimed at attracting and retaining preferred employees and improving incentives. In Myanmar, there are two employee benefit systems: (1) an unregulated traditional system in which firms offer their employees in-kind benefits such as meals and accommodation; and (2) a modern mandatory system in which firms are r…
On the Link Between Managerial Attributes and Firm Access to Formal Credit in Myanmar
Using a survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we examine demand for formal credit and the extent to which firms are self-constrained by not applying for credit or if they apply and are constrained by bank’s rejections. We have information about firm managers’ managerial capacity and risk attitude. We use this to test if the allocation of loanable funds is systematically associated with the attributes. We find that these attributes are positively asso…
The Return to Foreign Aid
We estimate the average rate of return on investments financed by aid and by domestic resource mobilisation, using aggregate data. Both returns are expected to vary across countries and time. Consequently we develop a correlated random coefficients model to estimate the average returns. Across different estimators and two different data sources for GDP and investment our findings are remarkably robust; the average gross return on ‘aid investments…
Implementation of the individual placement and support approach – facilitators and barriers
The individual placement and support approach (IPS) has become a widely recognized evidence-based practice to provide work for more people with severe mental illness. The aim of this literature review was to identify and evaluate research on implementation of IPS, focusing on facilitators and barriers. Contextual, local organizational, cooperation/team and individual factors influence the implementation process. Key facilitators are the use of a …
The Myth of Female Credit Discrimination in African Manufacturing
We examine credit constraint differentials between male and female manufacturing entrepreneurs using firm data from 16 sub-Saharan Africa countries. Small enterprises owned by female entrepreneurs are less likely to be credit constrained compared to their male counterparts, while this is reversed for medium-sized enterprises. A generalised Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the gap is predominantly a pure gender effect. We argue that this fi…
Means to an End
A Comparison of Model-Based and Design-Based Impact Evaluations of Interventions in Developing Countries
There is a long-standing debate as to whether nonexperimental estimators of causal effects of social programs can overcome selection bias. Most existing reviews either are inconclusive or point to significant selection biases in nonexperimental studies. However, many of the reviews, the so-called between-studies, do not make direct comparisons of the estimates. We survey four impact studies, all using data from development interventions that dire…
Food Standards are Good – For Middle-Class Farmers
Case studies in development evaluation
The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States
This paper investigates the short-run macroeconomic impact of aid in small developing countries (SDCs) by using a vector auto regression (VAR) model to study the impact of aid on net import (absorption) and domestic demand (spending). We focus on average country effects within two country sub-groups, and find substantial differences between ‘aid-dependent’ SDCs and other SDCs that are more dependent on natural resources, tourism or financial serv…
Enterprise Growth and Survival in Vietnam
This paper analyses whether direct government assistance during start-up and other forms of interaction with the state sector have influenced the long-run performance of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam. Using three partly overlapping surveys during the period 1990-2000, we find strong effects on firm dynamics from interaction with state institutions. Enterprises which have the state sector as their main customer…
An Omnibus Test for Univariate and Multivariate Normality
We suggest a convenient version of the omnibus test for normality, using skewness and kurtosis based on Shenton and Bowman [ Journal of the American Statistical Association (1977) Vol. 72, pp. 206–211], which controls well for size, for samples as low as 10 observations. A multivariate version is introduced. Size and power are investigated in comparison with four other tests for multivariate normality. The first power experiments consider the who…
US politics and World Bank IDA-lending
This paper studies the role of US political factors in the allocation of World Bank concessional lending, where US political interests are proxied by voting similarity in the United Nations General Assembly on issues identified as important by the US Department of State. In contrast to previous studies we find that the US exerted a significant influence on IDA lending during the period 1993-2000. We demonstrate that the influence was both statist…
On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth
This paper takes a fresh look at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate. First, we assess the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the approach taken in many empirical studies. Second, we demonstrate that cross-country data…
Aid and growth regressions
On Aid, Growth and Good Policies
This study provides a critical analysis of the growth regressions in Burnside and Dollar [2000]. First, we analyse the relationship between aid and government expenditure in a modified neo-classical growth model. One of the main results of the analysis is that while good policies spur growths they may at the same time reduce the effectiveness of foreign aid. Second, we show that the econometric results in Burnside and Dollar emphasising the cruci…
Governmental Mismanagement and Symbolic Violence
Ischemic heart disease mortality of firemen and policemen
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality of Connecticut firemen and policemen is studied for the years 1960-78, using death certificate data. The mortality of these two occupations is expected to be greater than that of other workers. Standardized Mortality Odds Ratios for firemen and policemen are greater than 1.00. Although some increased IHD risk for firemen and policemen is suggested, the exact role of occupational risk factors remains to be de…
Aid and growth regressions
On Aid, Growth and Good Policies
This study provides a critical analysis of the growth regressions in Burnside and Dollar [2000]. First, we analyse the relationship between aid and government expenditure in a modified neo-classical growth model. One of the main results of the analysis is that while good policies spur growths they may at the same time reduce the effectiveness of foreign aid. Second, we show that the econometric results in Burnside and Dollar emphasising the cruci…
On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth
This paper takes a fresh look at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate. First, we assess the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the approach taken in many empirical studies. Second, we demonstrate that cross-country data…
Implementation of the individual placement and support approach – facilitators and barriers
The individual placement and support approach (IPS) has become a widely recognized evidence-based practice to provide work for more people with severe mental illness. The aim of this literature review was to identify and evaluate research on implementation of IPS, focusing on facilitators and barriers. Contextual, local organizational, cooperation/team and individual factors influence the implementation process. Key facilitators are the use of a …
A Comparison of Model-Based and Design-Based Impact Evaluations of Interventions in Developing Countries
There is a long-standing debate as to whether nonexperimental estimators of causal effects of social programs can overcome selection bias. Most existing reviews either are inconclusive or point to significant selection biases in nonexperimental studies. However, many of the reviews, the so-called between-studies, do not make direct comparisons of the estimates. We survey four impact studies, all using data from development interventions that dire…
Food Standards are Good – For Middle-Class Farmers
Governmental Mismanagement and Symbolic Violence
On the Link Between Managerial Attributes and Firm Access to Formal Credit in Myanmar
Using a survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we examine demand for formal credit and the extent to which firms are self-constrained by not applying for credit or if they apply and are constrained by bank’s rejections. We have information about firm managers’ managerial capacity and risk attitude. We use this to test if the allocation of loanable funds is systematically associated with the attributes. We find that these attributes are positively asso…
Ischemic heart disease mortality of firemen and policemen
Ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality of Connecticut firemen and policemen is studied for the years 1960-78, using death certificate data. The mortality of these two occupations is expected to be greater than that of other workers. Standardized Mortality Odds Ratios for firemen and policemen are greater than 1.00. Although some increased IHD risk for firemen and policemen is suggested, the exact role of occupational risk factors remains to be de…
Governmental Mismanagement and Symbolic Violence
Aid and growth regressions
On Aid, Growth and Good Policies
This study provides a critical analysis of the growth regressions in Burnside and Dollar [2000]. First, we analyse the relationship between aid and government expenditure in a modified neo-classical growth model. One of the main results of the analysis is that while good policies spur growths they may at the same time reduce the effectiveness of foreign aid. Second, we show that the econometric results in Burnside and Dollar emphasising the cruci…
On the Empirics of Foreign Aid and Growth
This paper takes a fresh look at three issues in the aid effectiveness debate. First, we assess the theoretical case for foreign aid. Using an endogenous growth version of the standard overlapping generations model, we show that aid can be an effective policy tool in spurring growth in poor countries. This model also furnishes a theoretical foundation for the approach taken in many empirical studies. Second, we demonstrate that cross-country data…
US politics and World Bank IDA-lending
This paper studies the role of US political factors in the allocation of World Bank concessional lending, where US political interests are proxied by voting similarity in the United Nations General Assembly on issues identified as important by the US Department of State. In contrast to previous studies we find that the US exerted a significant influence on IDA lending during the period 1993-2000. We demonstrate that the influence was both statist…
An Omnibus Test for Univariate and Multivariate Normality
We suggest a convenient version of the omnibus test for normality, using skewness and kurtosis based on Shenton and Bowman [ Journal of the American Statistical Association (1977) Vol. 72, pp. 206–211], which controls well for size, for samples as low as 10 observations. A multivariate version is introduced. Size and power are investigated in comparison with four other tests for multivariate normality. The first power experiments consider the who…
Enterprise Growth and Survival in Vietnam
This paper analyses whether direct government assistance during start-up and other forms of interaction with the state sector have influenced the long-run performance of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam. Using three partly overlapping surveys during the period 1990-2000, we find strong effects on firm dynamics from interaction with state institutions. Enterprises which have the state sector as their main customer…
The Short-Run Macroeconomic Impact of Foreign Aid to Small States
This paper investigates the short-run macroeconomic impact of aid in small developing countries (SDCs) by using a vector auto regression (VAR) model to study the impact of aid on net import (absorption) and domestic demand (spending). We focus on average country effects within two country sub-groups, and find substantial differences between ‘aid-dependent’ SDCs and other SDCs that are more dependent on natural resources, tourism or financial serv…
Case studies in development evaluation
A Comparison of Model-Based and Design-Based Impact Evaluations of Interventions in Developing Countries
There is a long-standing debate as to whether nonexperimental estimators of causal effects of social programs can overcome selection bias. Most existing reviews either are inconclusive or point to significant selection biases in nonexperimental studies. However, many of the reviews, the so-called between-studies, do not make direct comparisons of the estimates. We survey four impact studies, all using data from development interventions that dire…
Food Standards are Good – For Middle-Class Farmers
The Myth of Female Credit Discrimination in African Manufacturing
We examine credit constraint differentials between male and female manufacturing entrepreneurs using firm data from 16 sub-Saharan Africa countries. Small enterprises owned by female entrepreneurs are less likely to be credit constrained compared to their male counterparts, while this is reversed for medium-sized enterprises. A generalised Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the gap is predominantly a pure gender effect. We argue that this fi…
Means to an End
Implementation of the individual placement and support approach – facilitators and barriers
The individual placement and support approach (IPS) has become a widely recognized evidence-based practice to provide work for more people with severe mental illness. The aim of this literature review was to identify and evaluate research on implementation of IPS, focusing on facilitators and barriers. Contextual, local organizational, cooperation/team and individual factors influence the implementation process. Key facilitators are the use of a …
The Return to Foreign Aid
We estimate the average rate of return on investments financed by aid and by domestic resource mobilisation, using aggregate data. Both returns are expected to vary across countries and time. Consequently we develop a correlated random coefficients model to estimate the average returns. Across different estimators and two different data sources for GDP and investment our findings are remarkably robust; the average gross return on ‘aid investments…
Traditional and modern employee benefits in Myanmar’s manufacturing sector
Employer-provided benefits are independent elements in the compensation packages that make up firms’ payment strategies. Such benefits are aimed at attracting and retaining preferred employees and improving incentives. In Myanmar, there are two employee benefit systems: (1) an unregulated traditional system in which firms offer their employees in-kind benefits such as meals and accommodation; and (2) a modern mandatory system in which firms are r…
On the Link Between Managerial Attributes and Firm Access to Formal Credit in Myanmar
Using a survey of enterprises in Myanmar, we examine demand for formal credit and the extent to which firms are self-constrained by not applying for credit or if they apply and are constrained by bank’s rejections. We have information about firm managers’ managerial capacity and risk attitude. We use this to test if the allocation of loanable funds is systematically associated with the attributes. We find that these attributes are positively asso…
Sleep Quality and Self-Reported Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Are Associated with Physical Activity in Patients with Severe COPD
Sleep quantity, quality and symptoms of depression or anxiety potentially affect the level of daily physical activity (PAL) and plausibly counteracts benefits from pulmonary rehabilitation programs. Their collective impact on PAL is sparsely investigated, particularly in patients with severely progressed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Aim : To investigate if sleep quantity, quality and symptoms from self-reported hospital anxiety a…
On fiscal rules, gross domestic product forecasts and prediction of economic crises
This is a reply to Fredrik Anderson's (2022) article, 'Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy'. In 'Macroeconomic equilibriums, crises and fiscal policy', Fredrik Anderson considers an aspect of the much-discussed problem of public debt targets in macroeconomic policy. The main message of the article is that '[T]he target for the debt ratio should be set low enough to allow the government to increase the public debt by 30 to 50 perc…
Wage returns to workplace training in Myanmar
Good Business Practices Improve Productivity in Myanmar’s Manufacturing Sector
We investigate the relationship between business practices and enterprise productivity using panel data with matched employer and employee information from Myanmar. The data show that micro, small, and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar typically adopt only a few modern business practices, and the persistence in the use is extremely low. Even so, we find a positive and economically important association between business practices a…
Physical Function and Association with Cognitive Function in Patients in a Post-Covid-19 Clinic—A Cross-Sectional Study
Patients with long-term health sequelae of COVID-19 (post-COVID-19 condition) experience both physical and cognitive manifestations. However, there is still uncertainty about the prevalence of physical impairment in these patients and whether there is a link between physical and cognitive function. The aim was to assess the prevalence of physical impairment and investigate the association with cognition in patients assessed in a post-COVID-19 cli…
Economics (13 obras) · Business (9 obras) · International Development and Aid (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Econometrics (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Aid effectiveness (4 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras) · Economic Growth and Development (4 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 obras)