Browsing by Autor "Antonio N. Bojanic"

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An Analysis of Abortion Patterns for White and Non-White Women in the United States, 1973 to 2008
(Haworth Press, 2015) Antonio N. Bojanic
After controlling for marital status and income, this study analyzes differences in abortion patterns for white and non-white women in the United States during the period 1973–2008. The findings suggest that white and non-white women are as likely to have an abortion before and after a child is born. Non-white women, however, are more likely to have an abortion early in their pregnancy, while white women show greater propensity if they have never had a previous abortion. With age, differences among all women are almost non-existent. Finally, the state where a woman resides may affect her desire to obtain an abortion.
Inflación e incertidumbre inflacionaria en Bolivia
(Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013) Antonio N. Bojanic
Este artículo estima un modelo de inflación GARCH-M para Bolivia e investiga sus relaciones con las medidas de la incertidumbre inflacionaria resultantes. Con base en un índice de precios al consumidor construido mediante la combinación de seis índices oficiales distintos, los principales hallazgos son los siguientes: tanto la inflación como la incertidumbre inflacionaria han disminuido a un ritmo constante desde fines del decenio de los ochenta del siglo pasado, cuando finalmente terminó el periodo de hiperinflación. Para el periodo 1937-2011 —y para otros subperiodos comprendidos en este lapso—, la inflación tiene un efecto positivo y significativo en la incertidumbre, lo cual apoya las hipótesis formuladas por separado por Friedman y Ball. Una consecuencia de este hallazgo es que el Banco Central de Bolivia podría reducir la incertidumbre inflacionaria al reducir la tasa de inflación.
Infrastructure and Educational Outcomes in Bolivia
(Universidad Iberoamericana, 2025) Antonio N. Bojanic; Mauricio Foronda; Alejandro Jordán
This article analyzes how the levels of enrollment, promotion, dropout and failure are affected by access to basic infrastructure services such as electricity, drinking water, and sanitation services, as well as by access to basic facilities such as classrooms, sports fields, laboratories, libraries, and computer rooms. Based on Bolivian data for the entire universe of schools and colleges at the preschool, primary, and secondary levels, an empirical study was carried out on the impact of educational infrastructure during the period 2015-2020. It is analyzed whether the results vary depending on whether the schools are public, are located in urban centers and whether they offer a humanistic degree. Consistently, the findings show that access to basic infrastructure can play a fundamental role in generating positive educational outcomes, but when the analysis is disaggregated by geographic region and educational levels, there emerge significant differences.
Small sample properties of ML, COLS and DEA estimators of frontier models in the presence of heteroscedasticity: A reply to Banker, Chang, and Cooper
(Elsevier BV, 2002) Antonio N. Bojanic; Steven B. Caudill; Jon M. Ford
TESTING THE VALIDITY OF WAGNER'S LAW IN BOLIVIA: A COINTEGRATION AND CAUSALITY ANALYSIS WITH DISAGGREGATED DATA
(2013) Antonio N. Bojanic
Nine versions of Wagner's law are examined employing annual time-series data on Bolivia for the period 1940-2010. The analysis is an advance over previous work in several ways. First, the stationarity properties and the order of integration of the data are investigated using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller and the Phillips and Perron tests. Second, the hypothesis of a long-run relationship between different types of government expenditures and income is tested employing the methodology of cointegration analysis. Third, Error Correction Models are utilized to determine the direction of causality between the variables of interest. Lastly, the study comprises a period of seventy years, the longest of its kind for Bolivia. Consistent with Wagner's proposition, bidirectional causality is found between income and government expenditures in six of the nine versions of the law.
THE COMPOSITION OF GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BOLIVIA
(Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, 2013) Antonio N. Bojanic
This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth and productivity to budget share ratios of government expenditures in Bolivia since 1940. Government expenditures are classified according to their functional and economic characteristics and place of origin. The results indicate that defense expenditures, decentralized expenditures (local or regional), and expenditures in Santa Cruz Department represent the best ways for government to boost the country's growth. Expenditures on additional areas, such as education, and in other promising departments, such as Beni and Oruro, have the potential for generating significant growth and should be considered areas for possible government intervention.