Jan Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 6002965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8657-6777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
What Drives Women Entrepreneurs in Tourism in Tanzania
In Tanzania, tourism is one of the most important sectors in terms of its contribution to the nation’s GDP, employment and investment. Women entrepreneurs play a substantial role in the tourism sector. This research contributes to the growing literature on their position in tourism. The study aims at investigating the role of women entrepreneurs in tourism in Tanzania. To find out what drives the women, their socio-economic background (mother edu…
Multivariate Trend‐Cycle‐Seasonal Decompositions with Correlated Innovations
Multivariate analysis can help to focus on important phenomena, including trend and cyclical movements, but any economic information in seasonality is typically ignored. The present paper aims to more fully exploit time series information through a multivariate unobserved component model for quarterly data that exhibits seasonality together with cross‐variable component correlations. We show that economic restrictions, including common trends, co…
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a core versus periphery within EMU. Our results suggest that business cycle coherence did not increase monotonically. The COVID-19 pandemic made that the sig…
The barriers and facilitators of implementing a national laboratory-based AMR surveillance system in Cambodia
Background: Collecting data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an essential approach for defining the scope of the AMR problem, developing evidence-based interventions and detecting new and emerging resistances. Our study aimed to identify key factors influencing the implementation of a laboratory-based AMR surveillance system in Cambodia. This will add additional insights to the development of a sustainable and effective national AMR surveilla…
Employment reconciliation and nowcasting
We construct a latent employment estimate for the United States, which both reconciles the information from separate payroll and household surveys and incorporates the preliminary data revision process of the payroll data. We find that our reconciled latent employment series looks somewhat different than the initial release of payroll employment and is closer to the fully revised data that is benchmarked to a near census of employment. A real‐tim…
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen-drug combinations in select locations. To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive estimates of AMR burden to date. METHODS: We estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) a…
Can GDP Measurement Be Further Improved? Data Revision and Reconciliation
Recent years have seen many attempts to combine expenditure-side estimates of U.S. real output (GDE) growth with income-side estimates (GDI) to improve estimates of real GDP growth. We show how to incorporate information from multiple releases of noisy data to provide more precise estimates while avoiding some of the identifying assumptions required in earlier work. This relies on a new insight: using multiple data releases allows us to distingui…
Health and wealth in the Roman Empire
Ancient Rome was the largest and most populous empire of its time, and the largest pre-industrial state in European history. Recent though not universally accepted research suggests that at least for the most populous central periods of its history standard of living was also rather higher than before or after. To trace whether this is also reflected in Roman biological standard of living, we present the first large and more or less comprehensive…
When ‘substandard’ is the standard, who decides what is appropriate? Exploring healthcare provision in Cambodia
Cambodia has experienced an impressive economic growth in the last two decades that has not been matched by equal investments in public health care. In combination with other historical and sociocultural factors, this has led to a set of private and public health care practices that divert from standards of clinical good practice. Based on qualitative data collected in malaria and (para)typhoid fever projects, we will describe falsified laborator…
In Memoriam Hans van Wieringen 1926–2010
On estimators for truncated height samples
Height, income, and nutrition in the Netherlands
Determinanten van de consumptieve vraag in Nederland, 1815-1913
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
Output Effects of Transport Infrastructure
In this paper we put to trial the alleged role of investment in transport and communications infrastructure in economic growth in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. To do so, we combine a new data set with data‐oriented econometric techniques. Testing of the main hypothesis by applying Granger's concept of causation in a vector auto‐regression model reveals that the development of infrastructure ‘caused’ Dutch economic …
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Output Effects of Transport Infrastructure
In this paper we put to trial the alleged role of investment in transport and communications infrastructure in economic growth in the Netherlands in the second half of the nineteenth century. To do so, we combine a new data set with data‐oriented econometric techniques. Testing of the main hypothesis by applying Granger's concept of causation in a vector auto‐regression model reveals that the development of infrastructure ‘caused’ Dutch economic …
Height, income, and nutrition in the Netherlands
Determinanten van de consumptieve vraag in Nederland, 1815-1913
TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis
On estimators for truncated height samples
In Memoriam Hans van Wieringen 1926–2010
Health and wealth in the Roman Empire
Ancient Rome was the largest and most populous empire of its time, and the largest pre-industrial state in European history. Recent though not universally accepted research suggests that at least for the most populous central periods of its history standard of living was also rather higher than before or after. To trace whether this is also reflected in Roman biological standard of living, we present the first large and more or less comprehensive…
When ‘substandard’ is the standard, who decides what is appropriate? Exploring healthcare provision in Cambodia
Cambodia has experienced an impressive economic growth in the last two decades that has not been matched by equal investments in public health care. In combination with other historical and sociocultural factors, this has led to a set of private and public health care practices that divert from standards of clinical good practice. Based on qualitative data collected in malaria and (para)typhoid fever projects, we will describe falsified laborator…
Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019
BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen-drug combinations in select locations. To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive estimates of AMR burden to date. METHODS: We estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) a…
Can GDP Measurement Be Further Improved? Data Revision and Reconciliation
Recent years have seen many attempts to combine expenditure-side estimates of U.S. real output (GDE) growth with income-side estimates (GDI) to improve estimates of real GDP growth. We show how to incorporate information from multiple releases of noisy data to provide more precise estimates while avoiding some of the identifying assumptions required in earlier work. This relies on a new insight: using multiple data releases allows us to distingui…
The barriers and facilitators of implementing a national laboratory-based AMR surveillance system in Cambodia
Background: Collecting data on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an essential approach for defining the scope of the AMR problem, developing evidence-based interventions and detecting new and emerging resistances. Our study aimed to identify key factors influencing the implementation of a laboratory-based AMR surveillance system in Cambodia. This will add additional insights to the development of a sustainable and effective national AMR surveilla…
Employment reconciliation and nowcasting
We construct a latent employment estimate for the United States, which both reconciles the information from separate payroll and household surveys and incorporates the preliminary data revision process of the payroll data. We find that our reconciled latent employment series looks somewhat different than the initial release of payroll employment and is closer to the fully revised data that is benchmarked to a near census of employment. A real‐tim…
What Drives Women Entrepreneurs in Tourism in Tanzania
In Tanzania, tourism is one of the most important sectors in terms of its contribution to the nation’s GDP, employment and investment. Women entrepreneurs play a substantial role in the tourism sector. This research contributes to the growing literature on their position in tourism. The study aims at investigating the role of women entrepreneurs in tourism in Tanzania. To find out what drives the women, their socio-economic background (mother edu…
Multivariate Trend‐Cycle‐Seasonal Decompositions with Correlated Innovations
Multivariate analysis can help to focus on important phenomena, including trend and cyclical movements, but any economic information in seasonality is typically ignored. The present paper aims to more fully exploit time series information through a multivariate unobserved component model for quarterly data that exhibits seasonality together with cross‐variable component correlations. We show that economic restrictions, including common trends, co…
Coherence of output gaps in the euro area
Using the measures proposed by Mink et al. (2012), we reexamine the coherence of business cycles in the euro area using a long sample period. We also analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business cycle coherence and examine whether our measures for business cycle coherence indicate a core versus periphery within EMU. Our results suggest that business cycle coherence did not increase monotonically. The COVID-19 pandemic made that the sig…
Economics (9 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Monetary Policy and Economic Impact (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Demography (3 works)