Tilak Abeysinghe
Biographic Data
| ID | 6008855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tilak Abeysinghe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tilak |
| FAMILY NAME | Abeysinghe |
| SIGNATURE | ABEYSINGHE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5276-9047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Welfare spending and fiscal sustainability
As a developing country, China has not yet moved in the direction of Western-style welfare states. Nevertheless, China’s debt burden is on the rise. Three provincial governments, 99 city governments, and thousands of county governments were at the edge of insolvency in 2013, reporting debt ratios exceeding 100 percent. To address regional inequalities, the central government introduced various social welfare schemes. Although there is some consen…
Lifetime Income and Housing Affordability in Singapore
Most commonly used measures of housing affordability are essentially short-run indicators that compare current income with house prices or housing costs. Despite the emphasis in the literature on the importance of long-term affordability, researchers have not developed measures of lifetime income because of data constraints. Many developed countries publish annually household income by age of household heads. Using these data for Singapore, the p…
The Singapore Economy
Singapore's phenomenal transformation from Third World to First World status has been of great interest to economists around the world yet there has been little quantitative research done on its economy and institutions. This innovative new research monograph fills the lacunae by presenting the Singapore economy through a macroeconometric model and laying the foundations for further research. Using formal econometric analysis and novel modelling …
Time cost, relative income and fertility in Canada
On testing Easterlin's hypothesis using relative cohort size as a proxy for relative income
On testing Easterlin's hypothesis using relative cohort size as a proxy for relative income
Time cost, relative income and fertility in Canada
Lifetime Income and Housing Affordability in Singapore
Most commonly used measures of housing affordability are essentially short-run indicators that compare current income with house prices or housing costs. Despite the emphasis in the literature on the importance of long-term affordability, researchers have not developed measures of lifetime income because of data constraints. Many developed countries publish annually household income by age of household heads. Using these data for Singapore, the p…
On testing Easterlin's hypothesis using relative cohort size as a proxy for relative income
Time cost, relative income and fertility in Canada
The Singapore Economy
Singapore's phenomenal transformation from Third World to First World status has been of great interest to economists around the world yet there has been little quantitative research done on its economy and institutions. This innovative new research monograph fills the lacunae by presenting the Singapore economy through a macroeconometric model and laying the foundations for further research. Using formal econometric analysis and novel modelling …
Lifetime Income and Housing Affordability in Singapore
Most commonly used measures of housing affordability are essentially short-run indicators that compare current income with house prices or housing costs. Despite the emphasis in the literature on the importance of long-term affordability, researchers have not developed measures of lifetime income because of data constraints. Many developed countries publish annually household income by age of household heads. Using these data for Singapore, the p…
Welfare spending and fiscal sustainability
As a developing country, China has not yet moved in the direction of Western-style welfare states. Nevertheless, China’s debt burden is on the rise. Three provincial governments, 99 city governments, and thousands of county governments were at the edge of insolvency in 2013, reporting debt ratios exceeding 100 percent. To address regional inequalities, the central government introduced various social welfare schemes. Although there is some consen…
Economics (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Econometrics (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Demography (2 works) · Fertility (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Global Health Care Issues (2 works)