325 research outputs found
Vaccine hesitancy in Pakistan is growing: here’s how it can be tackled
No full textSince the start of the pandemic, Pakistanis have become less likely to say they will accept a COVID vaccine. Saher Asad (Lahore University of Management Sciences), Javaeria Qureshi (University of Illinois at Chicago), Mariam Raheem (Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan – CERP), Taimur Shah (CERP), and Basit Zafar (University of Michigan) looks at the findings of a new survey into vaccine hesitancy and suggests how the government could overcome it
The Pakistan remittance initiative and remittance flows to Pakistan
No full textThis study investigates the impact of the Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) on remittance flows to Pakistan. In 2009, the Government of Pakistan launched the PRI aimed at facilitating the flow of remittances sent home by non-resident Pakistanis. The PRI is comprised of multiple incentive schemes that are aimed at making remittance transfer faster, cheaper, and more convenient, and at increasing the attractiveness of formal channels of transfer relative to informal channels. I find that the PRI is associated with a significant increase in the formal remittances sent to Pakistan as well as a strong shift in the channels used for remit-tance transfer. Estimates suggest that while the PRI led to a significant reallocation of remittances away from the informal channel to the formal channel, it is not clear that it has increased the total amount of remittances received.Non-PRPSSP; CRP2; IFPRI1DSGD; PIMCGIAR Research Program on Policies, Institutions, and Markets (PIM
Additional Returns to Investing in Girls' Education: Impact on Younger Sibling Human Capital
No full textThe Pakistan remittance initiative and remittance flows to Pakistan
No full textThis study investigates the impact of the Pakistan Remittance Initiative (PRI) on remittance flows to Pakistan. In 2009, the Government of Pakistan launched the PRI aimed at facilitating the flow of remittances sent home by non-resident Pakistanis. The PRI is comprised of multiple incentive schemes that are aimed at making remittance transfer faster, cheaper, and more convenient, and at increasing the attractiveness of formal channels of transfer relative to informal channels. I find that the PRI is associated with a significant increase in the formal remittances sent to Pakistan as well as a strong shift in the channels used for remit-tance transfer. Estimates suggest that while the PRI led to a significant reallocation of remittances away from the informal channel to the formal channel, it is not clear that it has increased the total amount of remittances received
Behaviour of Shear Wall Models with Circular Wall Openings
No full textTitle: Behaviour of Shear Wall Models with Circular Wall Openings, Author: Aejaz A. Qureshi, Location: ThodeThis thesis describes the development of a technique to build small scale shear wall building models containing circular wall-openings without floors, using a suitable concrete mortar. Tests were conducted to study the behaviour of such models under lateral static loads. The behaviour of these models is compared with those containing no wall openings. The test and analytical results as predicted by Vlasov's theory are compared to investigate the effect of such openings in shear wall models. Analysis of the problem is also attempted using Rosman's shear connection approach.ThesisMaster of Engineering (ME
Modeling ingress losses into a horizontal landfill gas well: Reconciling 2D turbulent flow and quasi-1D approximation
No full textThis document details on the steps that the author has followed to try to incorporate turbulent ingress head losses with the Darcian flow head loss through porous media in a horizontal landfill gas well to produce a model for calculating the head loss characteristics across the gas well for efficient extraction of landfill gas[2]. The horizontal well is a pipe with equidistant apertures penetrating the length of a landfill, with a vacuum inducing pump at the outlet and the far end blocked. The well is supported by a thin lamina of gravel and drains a cylindrical volume of gas generating medium around it. In [2], a quasi-1D model for this system was developed and implemented in MATLAB/Octave, but a computational study in COMSOL [1] has shown that the quasi-1D construction overlooks the highly localized turbulent structures at the ingress apertures. The purpose of the current project was to attempt to incorporate these local head losses into the quasi-1D model.Mitacs Globalink Internshiplandfill gas flowhorizontal wellporous medium flowhead lossturbulent flo
Estimating effects of school quality using multiple proxies
No full textAbstractThe recent literature on school quality has shown that the school a child attends has significant effects on achievement. However, the literature relating different school characteristics to student achievement has produced mixed results, particularly when using student-level data. Using data from the ECLS-K and a proxy variable model that addresses the problem of measuring school quality, we show that significant effects of teaching and resource quality can be detected from student-level data. We find a significant, positive relationship between school quality and student achievement if school characteristics such as class size and teachers' schooling are treated as noisy measures of school quality. However, this effect is not detected when using models which do not account for measurement error in school quality. Our results suggest that conventional approaches underestimate the effect of school quality by about 50%
Developmental Surveillance and Screening Practices By Pediatric Primary Care Providers
No full textThis study used a survey approach to investigate current developmental surveillance and developmental screening practices by pediatric primary care providers in a diverse New Jersey county. A total of 217 providers were contacted with a final sample size of 57 pediatric primary care respondents from 13 different municipalities. Most providers (73.7%) began developmental surveillance at the first non-hospital health supervision visit, usually at ages three to five days of life. About half (51.8%) of responding providers did surveillance and/or screening at all health encounters, while the remaining providers (48.2%) did surveillance and/or screening at only well child visits. The majority (63.6%) of providers report using a formal tool for developmental screening. There was variation in the particular developmental tool used for screening which included the use of both standardized formal and non-standardized, informal tools. Disparities in practice were associated with the patient’s type of insurance, age at surveillance and/or screening initiation, and the time frame of surveillance and screening. Implications for early intervention practice are discussed.Do not know embargo policyPeer reviewe
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