Emmanuel Jimenez
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuel Jimenez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuel |
| FAMILY NAME | Jimenez |
| SIGNATURE | JIMÉNEZ E |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Does Community Management Help Keep Children in Schools? Evidence Using Panel Data from El Salvador's Educo Program
This article investigates how community management of schools can affect educational outcomes as measured by retention rates. In our model, parents make decisions about whether or not their children should remain in school, and they monitor the performance of the teachers. We analyze a unique data set from El Salvador, which expanded the role of communities in school management through its Educación con Participación de la Comunidad (EDUCO) progr…
Instrumentos de política para el control de la contaminación en los países en desarrollo
Cuáles son las estrategias apropiadas para proteger el ambiente en países en desarrollo que al mismo tiempo buscan promover el crecimiento y reducir la pobreza? Este artículo revisa la literatura acerca de la intervención costo-efectiva[1], comparando los instrumentos regulatorios y fiscales que pueden ser empleados con el propósito de reducir la contaminación. Los autores examinan lo que ocurre cuando las características propias de un país en de…
World Development Report 2006
This year’s Word Development Report (WDR), the twenty-eighth, looks at the role of equity in the development process. It defines equity in terms of two basic principles. The first is equal opportunities: that a person’s chances in life should be determined by his or her talents and efforts, rather than by pre-determined circumstances such as race, gender, social or family background. The second principle is the avoidance of extreme deprivation in…
Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households
Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland
Can Eastern European families most severely impoverished during the transition to capitalism rely on private family safety nets? This question is likely critical for the transition's success, but little is known about family networks in Eastern Europe. We analyze newly available Polish household surveys, conducted both before and after Poland's economic transition, which measure private inter‐household transfers. Such transfers are large and wide…
Social Security and Private Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru
Do social security systems “crowd out” private transfers from younger to older generations? This question has generated much theoretical discussion, but little empirical work exists to confirm or refute this crowding-out hypothesis. We investigate the connection between social security and private transfers in Peru, using the Peruvian Living Standards Survey, and find that private transfers from young to old would have been nearly 20 percent high…
Squatters' Rights and Urban Development: An Economic Perspective
Up to 35 percent of urban dwellers in third world cities are squatters. The characteristics of the squatting phenomenon are both varied and puzzling. Of particular interest are the observations that (1) landowners often do not collect rent from squatters for use of the land and (2) costly evictions are sometimes used without subsequent development of the land, which in many cases is resettled by squatters. The authors present an economic model of…
The relative effectiveness of private and public schools
Finacing Education in Developing Countries
Adverse macroeconomic conditions and keen intersectoral competition for public funds have reduced the ability of LDC governments to continue expanding education. This article discusses three broad policy options which address the current crisis in education: recovering the public cost of higher education and reallocating government spending toward the level with the highest social returns; developing a credit market for education, together with s…
National In-Service Training Systems in Latin America: An Economic Evaluation of Colombia's Sena
The demand for tenure security in developing countries
Decentralised and Private Education: The case of Pakistan
Theoretical concepts suggest that decentralization in financing and managing education result in greater efficiency and additional resources. Taking advantage of a change in Pakistan from a nationalized to a decentralized system in 1979, the authors use this country as a case history to examine these concepts. While acknowledging the lack of data, they contend that lifting of prohibitions on private schools has increased enrollments. Indirect evi…
The Demand for Housing Characteristics in Developing Countries
This paper develops and estimates an econometric model of the household demand for housing characteristics. The model is estimated using data from five cities and three developing countries. Overall, the procedures employed work well in a wide variety of circumstances. More specifically, it is found that: (1) Household willingness to pay for living space increases with income but at a less than proportionate rate; (2) Willlingness to pay for livi…
Tenure Security and Urban Squatting
While recent studies have shown that up to 35% of the total urban population of the Third World live in squatter settlements, there is a dearth of economic analysis on the phenomenon of squatting. This paper attempts to fill this gap. The equilibrium model argues that the difference in unit housing prices between the non-squatting (formal) sector of a city and its squatting (informal) sector reflects the premium associated with a secure tenure st…
Housing consumption and permanent income in developing countries: Estimates from panel data in El Salvador
The economics of self-help housing: Theory and some evidence from a developing country
The Value of Squatter Dwellings in Developing Countries
Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
The demand for tenure security in developing countries
Housing consumption and permanent income in developing countries: Estimates from panel data in El Salvador
The Value of Squatter Dwellings in Developing Countries
The relative effectiveness of private and public schools
Decentralised and Private Education: The case of Pakistan
Theoretical concepts suggest that decentralization in financing and managing education result in greater efficiency and additional resources. Taking advantage of a change in Pakistan from a nationalized to a decentralized system in 1979, the authors use this country as a case history to examine these concepts. While acknowledging the lack of data, they contend that lifting of prohibitions on private schools has increased enrollments. Indirect evi…
The Demand for Housing Characteristics in Developing Countries
This paper develops and estimates an econometric model of the household demand for housing characteristics. The model is estimated using data from five cities and three developing countries. Overall, the procedures employed work well in a wide variety of circumstances. More specifically, it is found that: (1) Household willingness to pay for living space increases with income but at a less than proportionate rate; (2) Willlingness to pay for livi…
The economics of self-help housing: Theory and some evidence from a developing country
Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households
Squatters' Rights and Urban Development: An Economic Perspective
Up to 35 percent of urban dwellers in third world cities are squatters. The characteristics of the squatting phenomenon are both varied and puzzling. Of particular interest are the observations that (1) landowners often do not collect rent from squatters for use of the land and (2) costly evictions are sometimes used without subsequent development of the land, which in many cases is resettled by squatters. The authors present an economic model of…
National In-Service Training Systems in Latin America: An Economic Evaluation of Colombia's Sena
The economics of self-help housing: Theory and some evidence from a developing country
The Value of Squatter Dwellings in Developing Countries
Tenure Security and Urban Squatting
While recent studies have shown that up to 35% of the total urban population of the Third World live in squatter settlements, there is a dearth of economic analysis on the phenomenon of squatting. This paper attempts to fill this gap. The equilibrium model argues that the difference in unit housing prices between the non-squatting (formal) sector of a city and its squatting (informal) sector reflects the premium associated with a secure tenure st…
Housing consumption and permanent income in developing countries: Estimates from panel data in El Salvador
The Demand for Housing Characteristics in Developing Countries
This paper develops and estimates an econometric model of the household demand for housing characteristics. The model is estimated using data from five cities and three developing countries. Overall, the procedures employed work well in a wide variety of circumstances. More specifically, it is found that: (1) Household willingness to pay for living space increases with income but at a less than proportionate rate; (2) Willlingness to pay for livi…
Decentralised and Private Education: The case of Pakistan
Theoretical concepts suggest that decentralization in financing and managing education result in greater efficiency and additional resources. Taking advantage of a change in Pakistan from a nationalized to a decentralized system in 1979, the authors use this country as a case history to examine these concepts. While acknowledging the lack of data, they contend that lifting of prohibitions on private schools has increased enrollments. Indirect evi…
The demand for tenure security in developing countries
Finacing Education in Developing Countries
Adverse macroeconomic conditions and keen intersectoral competition for public funds have reduced the ability of LDC governments to continue expanding education. This article discusses three broad policy options which address the current crisis in education: recovering the public cost of higher education and reallocating government spending toward the level with the highest social returns; developing a credit market for education, together with s…
National In-Service Training Systems in Latin America: An Economic Evaluation of Colombia's Sena
The relative effectiveness of private and public schools
Squatters' Rights and Urban Development: An Economic Perspective
Up to 35 percent of urban dwellers in third world cities are squatters. The characteristics of the squatting phenomenon are both varied and puzzling. Of particular interest are the observations that (1) landowners often do not collect rent from squatters for use of the land and (2) costly evictions are sometimes used without subsequent development of the land, which in many cases is resettled by squatters. The authors present an economic model of…
Social Security and Private Transfers in Developing Countries: The Case of Peru
Do social security systems “crowd out” private transfers from younger to older generations? This question has generated much theoretical discussion, but little empirical work exists to confirm or refute this crowding-out hypothesis. We investigate the connection between social security and private transfers in Peru, using the Peruvian Living Standards Survey, and find that private transfers from young to old would have been nearly 20 percent high…
Family Safety Nets and Economic Transition: A Study of Worker Households in Poland
Can Eastern European families most severely impoverished during the transition to capitalism rely on private family safety nets? This question is likely critical for the transition's success, but little is known about family networks in Eastern Europe. We analyze newly available Polish household surveys, conducted both before and after Poland's economic transition, which measure private inter‐household transfers. Such transfers are large and wide…
Motives for private transfers over the life cycle: An analytical framework and evidence for Peru
Risk Sharing and Private Transfers: What about Urban Households
World Development Report 2006
This year’s Word Development Report (WDR), the twenty-eighth, looks at the role of equity in the development process. It defines equity in terms of two basic principles. The first is equal opportunities: that a person’s chances in life should be determined by his or her talents and efforts, rather than by pre-determined circumstances such as race, gender, social or family background. The second principle is the avoidance of extreme deprivation in…
Instrumentos de política para el control de la contaminación en los países en desarrollo
Cuáles son las estrategias apropiadas para proteger el ambiente en países en desarrollo que al mismo tiempo buscan promover el crecimiento y reducir la pobreza? Este artículo revisa la literatura acerca de la intervención costo-efectiva[1], comparando los instrumentos regulatorios y fiscales que pueden ser empleados con el propósito de reducir la contaminación. Los autores examinan lo que ocurre cuando las características propias de un país en de…
Does Community Management Help Keep Children in Schools? Evidence Using Panel Data from El Salvador's Educo Program
This article investigates how community management of schools can affect educational outcomes as measured by retention rates. In our model, parents make decisions about whether or not their children should remain in school, and they monitor the performance of the teachers. We analyze a unique data set from El Salvador, which expanded the role of communities in school management through its Educación con Participación de la Comunidad (EDUCO) progr…
Economics (15 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Housing Market and Economics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Developing country (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (5 works)