Edsel L Beja
Biographic Data
| ID | 4261415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edsel L Beja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edsel L |
| FAMILY NAME | Beja |
| SIGNATURE | BEJA E L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Political dynasties and poverty
Political dynasty refers to a situation in which an incumbent official has at least one relative in elected office in the past or the present government. In the Philippines, for example, political dynasties comprise over 70% of its Congress. The impact of political dynasties on socioeconomic outcomes such as poverty is an important empirical question (do political dynasties exacerbate poverty?), and this paper presents some evidence. The analysis…
Empirics on the Long Run Relationship Between Economic Growth and Happiness
The paper finds a statistically significant positive but very small long-run relationship between economic growth and happiness. Reading the evidence as such can mean a rejection of the Easterlin Paradox. The trivial size of the estimated relationship nonetheless indicates little economic significance, if at all. The paper, in turn, argues that using economic significance rather than statistical significance in the evaluation of the evidence can …
The Focusing Illusion and Happiness
Political Dynasties and Poverty
Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level
Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development
An Empirical Analysis of Political Dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Inequality in democracy
This article presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70% of jurisdiction-based legislators in the current Congress. They possess higher net worth and win elections by larger margins of victory compared to those not belonging to political dyna…
Subjective Well-Being Approach to Environmental Valuation
Inequality in democracy
This article presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70% of jurisdiction-based legislators in the current Congress. They possess higher net worth and win elections by larger margins of victory compared to those not belonging to political dyna…
Political dynasties and poverty
Political dynasty refers to a situation in which an incumbent official has at least one relative in elected office in the past or the present government. In the Philippines, for example, political dynasties comprise over 70% of its Congress. The impact of political dynasties on socioeconomic outcomes such as poverty is an important empirical question (do political dynasties exacerbate poverty?), and this paper presents some evidence. The analysis…
Political Dynasties and Poverty
Subjective Well-Being Approach to Environmental Valuation
Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development
An Empirical Analysis of Political Dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level
An Empirical Analysis of Political Dynasties in the 15th Philippine Congress
Inequality in democracy
This article presents metrics to estimate the size of political dynasties in the 15th Congress of the Republic of the Philippines and analyze the relationship between political dynasty and socio-economic outcomes. Results show that political dynasties comprise 70% of jurisdiction-based legislators in the current Congress. They possess higher net worth and win elections by larger margins of victory compared to those not belonging to political dyna…
Subjective Well-Being Approach to Environmental Valuation
Political Dynasties and Poverty
Counting Happiness from the Individual Level to the Group Level
Subjective Well-Being Approach to the Valuation of International Development
Empirics on the Long Run Relationship Between Economic Growth and Happiness
The paper finds a statistically significant positive but very small long-run relationship between economic growth and happiness. Reading the evidence as such can mean a rejection of the Easterlin Paradox. The trivial size of the estimated relationship nonetheless indicates little economic significance, if at all. The paper, in turn, argues that using economic significance rather than statistical significance in the evaluation of the evidence can …
The Focusing Illusion and Happiness
Political dynasties and poverty
Political dynasty refers to a situation in which an incumbent official has at least one relative in elected office in the past or the present government. In the Philippines, for example, political dynasties comprise over 70% of its Congress. The impact of political dynasties on socioeconomic outcomes such as poverty is an important empirical question (do political dynasties exacerbate poverty?), and this paper presents some evidence. The analysis…
Economics (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philippine History and Culture (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works)