Erwin R Tiongson

Biographic Data

ID6283388
NAMEErwin R Tiongson
GIVEN NAMESErwin R
FAMILY NAMETiongson
SIGNATURETIONGSON E R
AFFILIATIONSGeorgetown University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT10
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Did the quality of internet services and related class structures affect educational achievement in Poland during Covid-19

    Open AccessJacek Liwiński, Steven G Rivkin et al.ARTICLEStudies In Educational Evaluation2024

    Learning losses during the COVID-19 pandemic have been well documented. In this paper, we attempt to learn more about the determinants of the magnitude of the adverse effects of the emergency shift to remote learning in Polish upper secondary schools. Because of concerns that differences in access to and quality of local internet would disadvantage lower socio-economic status children, the analysis focuses on local internet speed and the structur…

  • Split Decisions

    Michael A Clemens, Erwin R TiongsonARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2017

    Temporary overseas work can both raise a family's income and split the household geographically, with theoretically ambiguous net effects on spending, finance, and labor supply decisions. We study a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that quasi-randomly assigned temporary, partial-household migration for high-wage jobs inKorea. This allows quasiexperimental estimates of reduced-form effects of migration. We find that migration causes large c…

  • Split Decisions

    Open AccessMichael A Clemens, Erwin R TiongsonBOOK2012

    Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. This study investigates a policy discontinuity in the Philippines that resulted in quasi-random assignment of temporary, partial-household migration to high-wage jobs in Korea. This allows unusual…

  • The Impact of Emigration on Source Country Wages

    Lawrence Bouton, Saumik Paul et al.BOOK2011

    Thousands of Moldovans emigrated for work abroad over the last few years following nearly a decade of economic stagnation in their home country. At about 30 percent of the labor force, Moldova's emigrant population is in relative terms among the largest in the world. This study uses a unique household survey to examine the impact of emigration on wages in Moldova. The authors find a positive and significant impact of emigration on wages and the r…

  • Benefit Incidence of Public Education and Health Spending Worldwide

    Open AccessHamid Davoodi, Erwin R Tiongson et al.ARTICLEPoverty & Public Policy2010Cited by: 4References: 2

    This paper compiles a new database on the benefit incidence of public education and health spending covering 56 countries over 1960–2000. The database represents a significant improvement in quality and coverage over existing compilations. First, it covers a broader set of industrial and developing countries. Second, it provides information on benefit incidence over time. Third, the database reports auxiliary identifiers of a benefit incidence an…

  • Attitudes To Equality

    Mamta Murthi, Erwin R TiongsonBOOK2008

    It is routinely assumed that residents of post-socialist countries have a preference for greater income equality, other things being equal, owing to the legacy of socialism. This proposition is examined in the context of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union using data from three waves of the World Values Survey. Contrary to expectations, the authors find little evidence of a 'socialist legacy' en bloc. Considering the former Soviet Union se…

  • Internal Labor Mobility in Central Europe and the Baltic Region

    Erwin R Tiongson, Erwin Tiongson et al.BOOKInternal Labor Mobility in…2007

    Drawing from a variety of data sources and utilizing a common empirical framework and estimation strategy, this study identifies patterns and statistical profiles of geographical mobility. It finds internal migration to be generally low and highly concentrated among better-educated, young, and single workers. This suggests that migration is more likely to reinforce existing inequalities than to act as an equalizing phenomenon. By way of contrast,…

  • The effectiveness of government spending on education and health care in developing and transition economies

    Open AccessSanjeev Gupta, Marijn Verhoeven et al.ARTICLEEuropean Journal of Political…2002

  • Temporary Migration Overseas and Household Labor Supply

    Open AccessEdgard R Rodríguez, Erwin R TiongsonARTICLEInternational Migration Review2001Cited by: 17References: 12

    The impact of international migration on the labor supply of workers' nonmigrant relatives has not been well documented in the literature. Using household survey data representing mostly overseas contract workers, i.e., temporary migrants, this paper shows that labor supplies of migrants and their nonmigrant relatives are inseparable. Migrants reduce the labor supply of nonmigrant relatives, which translates into lower earnings from local labor m…

  • Baumol’s Cost Disease Reconsidered

    Erwin R TiongsonARTICLEChallenge1997

    virtually unchallenged over the past three decades. In a field where the accuracy of both data and assumptions are perennially debated, the quiet consensus in cultural economics comes as a surprise. In the September 1995 issue of Challenge, William J. Baumol reaffirmed his basic economic assumptions about performing arts organizations, as he has for the previous thirty years. Together with William G. Bowen, Baumol wrote the basic text on cultural…