Geoffrey Ducanes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5661989 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Ducanes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Ducanes |
| SIGNATURE | DUCANES G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ateneo de Manila University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6207-3182 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Macroeconomic Conditions as Determinants of Self‐Rated Poverty
Are improvements in objective macroeconomic conditions associated with a reduction in self‐identifying poor households? Since the turn of the 21st century, the Philippines has consistently seen a growth in real output, a reduction in unemployment rate, and relatively targeted inflation. Whereas policymakers associate these economic conditions with a drop in income poverty, not much has been said about the relationship between these factors with s…
Covid Lockdown and Employment in the Philippines
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted employment worldwide, mainly due to social distancing measures – hard lockdowns especially. Using difference-in-differences (DiD) analysis on Philippine Labor Force Survey (LFS) data, which exploits (1) the preemptive and selective application of a hard lockdown within the country; and (2) the conduct of the LFS coinciding with the imposition of the hard lockdown in April 2020, this study finds that the…
They Never Left
Between 1972 and 1986, Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines headed an autocratic system that allowed him to rule with little to no accountability. Some 36 years after FM (as he is popularly called) and family were driven from power into exile in Hawaii, his son, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr., was overwhelmingly elected President in the May 2022 general elections. This turnaround seemed puzzling to many, but others saw a long-term deliberate …
Covid-19 Lockdowns and Female Employment
Informal employment and irregular migration status
While a thick strand of literature demonstrates informally employed workers and irregular migrants being generally worse off in the labor market, little has been done to examine and compare these two sources of disadvantages. Using regression analyses on a survey of migrant workers in Thailand from Cambodia, Myanmar and Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the paper measures the prevalence of informal employment and estimates the differential contri…
Teacher Education in the Philippines
The Philippines’ dismal performance in recent international assessments (e.g., PISA in 2018; TIMSS and SEA-PLM in 2019) evince that a learning crisis persists and remains a formidable challenge for the country. This is despite the many educational reforms undertaken in recent years, such as resolving the decades-long backlog in school infrastructure, expanding access to early childhood education, upgrading teacher salaries, and enhancing the basi…
The welfare impact of overseas migration on Philippine households
This study uses a panel of some 8,000 households common to the 2007 and 2008 Annual Poverty Indicators Surveys to examine the economic impact of overseas migration on Philippine households. It finds overseas migration to be an important driving factor for household social mobility in the Philippines. Using panel regression analysis, the study shows households that are able to send members overseas experience a windfall in income transfers, but th…
The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on Asian Migrant Workers and Governments' Responses
Philippines’ Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals
While the Philippines seems to be on track towards achieving some Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), subnational disparities exist indicating possible patterns of isolation or discrimination. This paper examines whether and how geographical and political economy factors help to explain these disparities, focusing specifically on the MDG targets most closely related to the Human Development Index: poverty incidence, per-capita income, infant mor…
The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on Asian Migrant Workers and Governments' Responses
Informal employment and irregular migration status
While a thick strand of literature demonstrates informally employed workers and irregular migrants being generally worse off in the labor market, little has been done to examine and compare these two sources of disadvantages. Using regression analyses on a survey of migrant workers in Thailand from Cambodia, Myanmar and Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the paper measures the prevalence of informal employment and estimates the differential contri…
They Never Left
Between 1972 and 1986, Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines headed an autocratic system that allowed him to rule with little to no accountability. Some 36 years after FM (as he is popularly called) and family were driven from power into exile in Hawaii, his son, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr., was overwhelmingly elected President in the May 2022 general elections. This turnaround seemed puzzling to many, but others saw a long-term deliberate …
Philippines’ Progress Towards the Millennium Development Goals
While the Philippines seems to be on track towards achieving some Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), subnational disparities exist indicating possible patterns of isolation or discrimination. This paper examines whether and how geographical and political economy factors help to explain these disparities, focusing specifically on the MDG targets most closely related to the Human Development Index: poverty incidence, per-capita income, infant mor…
The Effect of the Global Economic Crisis on Asian Migrant Workers and Governments' Responses
The welfare impact of overseas migration on Philippine households
This study uses a panel of some 8,000 households common to the 2007 and 2008 Annual Poverty Indicators Surveys to examine the economic impact of overseas migration on Philippine households. It finds overseas migration to be an important driving factor for household social mobility in the Philippines. Using panel regression analysis, the study shows households that are able to send members overseas experience a windfall in income transfers, but th…
Teacher Education in the Philippines
The Philippines’ dismal performance in recent international assessments (e.g., PISA in 2018; TIMSS and SEA-PLM in 2019) evince that a learning crisis persists and remains a formidable challenge for the country. This is despite the many educational reforms undertaken in recent years, such as resolving the decades-long backlog in school infrastructure, expanding access to early childhood education, upgrading teacher salaries, and enhancing the basi…
Covid-19 Lockdowns and Female Employment
Informal employment and irregular migration status
While a thick strand of literature demonstrates informally employed workers and irregular migrants being generally worse off in the labor market, little has been done to examine and compare these two sources of disadvantages. Using regression analyses on a survey of migrant workers in Thailand from Cambodia, Myanmar and Lao People’s Democratic Republic, the paper measures the prevalence of informal employment and estimates the differential contri…
Covid Lockdown and Employment in the Philippines
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted employment worldwide, mainly due to social distancing measures – hard lockdowns especially. Using difference-in-differences (DiD) analysis on Philippine Labor Force Survey (LFS) data, which exploits (1) the preemptive and selective application of a hard lockdown within the country; and (2) the conduct of the LFS coinciding with the imposition of the hard lockdown in April 2020, this study finds that the…
They Never Left
Between 1972 and 1986, Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines headed an autocratic system that allowed him to rule with little to no accountability. Some 36 years after FM (as he is popularly called) and family were driven from power into exile in Hawaii, his son, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos, Jr., was overwhelmingly elected President in the May 2022 general elections. This turnaround seemed puzzling to many, but others saw a long-term deliberate …
Macroeconomic Conditions as Determinants of Self‐Rated Poverty
Are improvements in objective macroeconomic conditions associated with a reduction in self‐identifying poor households? Since the turn of the 21st century, the Philippines has consistently seen a growth in real output, a reduction in unemployment rate, and relatively targeted inflation. Whereas policymakers associate these economic conditions with a drop in income poverty, not much has been said about the relationship between these factors with s…
Economics (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Poverty (3 works)