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Steven F. Koch

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Equivalence scales with endogeneity and base independence

This study estimates food budget share equations to calculate house...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Household debt and consumption dynamics: A non-developed world view following the ﬁnanc...

According to recent macroeconomic evidence (Bosch and Koch 2020b; F...

Matthew W. Clance, Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

Measuring energy poverty in South Africa based on household required energy consumption

Energy poverty is a major concern in most of developing countries w...

Steven F. Koch, Yuxiang Yeú

Working Paper

Does the Equivalence Scale Matter? Equivalence and Out-of-Pocket Payments

This research questions that estimate, since it was based, in part,...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief

Contraceptive Use and Birth Intervals

We develop a model linking contraceptive effi ciency to birth spaci...

Steven F. Koch, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala

Working Paper

A New International Database on Financial Fragility

We present a new database on financial fragility for 124 countries ...

‪Svetlana Andrianova‬, Robert Lensink, Peter Rousseau, Panicos Demetriades, Johan Rewilak, David Fielding, Badi H. Baltagi, Steven F. Koch, Stephen G. Hall, Thorsten Beck

Working Paper

The Demand for Reproductive Health Care

This research formalizes the interactions between the various deter...

Steven F. Koch, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala

Working Paper

User Fee Abolition in South Africa: 1994 and 1996

In addition to birthing a new Democracy, 1994 was the beginning of ...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief

The Economic Approach to Fertility: A Causal Mediation Analysis

This study develops an economic fertility model which explicitly in...

Steven F. Koch, Gauthier Tshiswaka-Kashalala

Working Paper

Using a Natural Experiment to Examine Tobacco Tax Regressivity

We take advantage of a tobacco tax hike that occurred during the co...

Steven F. Koch, Adél Bosch

Working Paper

User Fee Abolition in South Africa in 1994 and 1996: Differences-in-Differences

South Africa waived user fees for primary health care, first in 199...

Steven F. Koch, Anna S. Brink

Working Paper

Assessing regional variation in the effect of the removal of user fees on institutional...

This paper examines regional differences in the effect of user fee ...

Steven F. Koch, Chitalu M. Chama-Chiliba

Working Paper

Do the Poor Benefit from Devolution Policies? Evidences from Quantile Treatment Effect ...

Existing literature have rarely evaluated distributive effect of Jo...

Steven F. Koch, Edwin Muchapondwa, Dambala Gelo

Working Paper

Health Care Facility Choice and User Fee Abolition: Regression Discontinuity in a Multi...

We apply parametric and nonparametric regression discontinuity meth...

Steven F. Koch, Jeffrey S. Racine

Working Paper

Technical barriers to trade faced by South African SMME’s

Policy Paper 02 South Africa is an open economy, and, therefore, it...

Michael A. Peet, Steven F. Koch

Policy Paper

The Abolition of User Fees and the Demand for Health Care: Re-evaluating the Impact

The impact of the abolition of user fees in South Africa, a policy ...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

The Consistency of Merger Decisions in a Developing Country: The South African Competit...

The South African Competition Commission’s merger decisions f...

Richard J. Grimbeek, Sunel Grimbeek, Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Welfare and common property rights forestry: Evidence from Ethiopian villages

In this study, welfare impacts associated with a unique common-prop...

Dambala Gelo, Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Property rights, institutions and source of fuel wood in rural Ethiopia

This study examines the relationship between property rights, defin...

Steven F. Koch, Abebe Beyene

Working Paper

Clean Fuel-Saving Technology Adoption in Urban Ethiopia

The heavy dependence and inefficient utilization of biomass resourc...

Steven F. Koch, Abebe Damte

Working Paper

An Analysis of Specialist Surgeons and their Practices

A purposive sample of South African doctors provided data for the a...

Steven F. Koch, Jean D. Slabbert

Working Paper

Dynamic Health Care Decisions and Child Health in South Africa

A large number of child deaths in developing countries could be ave...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Returns to Schooling: Skills Accumulation or Information Revelation?

This paper explores the degree to which imperfect information in th...

Ssekabira Ntege, Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

DEA Applied to a Gauteng Sample of South African Public Hospitals

The ability of the South African government to provide antiretrovir...

Steven F. Koch, Jacques K. Ngoie

Working Paper

The Aid and Maid System - South African Household Data Pitfalls

This paper presents research on South African household expenditure...

Steven F. Koch

Working Paper

Free public healtcare does not remove inequality of healthcare access

Despite the availability in South Africa of free public health care...

Steven F. Koch

Policy Brief

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