Hepatitis B Infection is Highly endemic in Uganda: Findings From a National Serosurvey (2009)
Bwogi, Josephine, Braka, Fiona, Makumbi, Issa, Mishra, Vinod, Bakamutumaho, Barnabas, Nanyunja, Miriam, ...
Background: Infant immunization against hepatitis B began in Uganda in 2002. Objective: To determine the baseline prevalence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection and explore risk factors. Methods: A...
Estimating money demand functions for South Asian countries (2009)
Narayan, Paresh, Narayan, Seema, Mishra,Vinod
In this paper, we estimate a money demand function for a panel of fiveSouth Asian countries. We find that the money demand and its determinants, namely real income, real exchange rate and short-term...
Estimating money demand functions for South Asian countries (2009)
Narayan, Paresh, Narayan, Seema, Mishra,Vinod
In this paper, we estimate a money demand function for a panel of five South Asian countries. We find that the money demand and its determinants, namely real income, real exchange rate and short-term...
Does biofuel smoke contribute to anaemia and stunting in early childhood? (2007)
Mishra, Vinod, Retherford, Robert D
Background Reliance on biomass fuels for cooking and heating exposes many women and young children in developing countries to high levels of air pollution indoors. Exposure to biomass smoke has been...
Effect of Wealth Inequality on Chronic Under-nutrition in Cambodian Children (2006)
The problems of food insecurity and under-nutrition remain particularly severe in countries recovering from recent wars or civil unrest, where improvements in economic conditions have tended to...
Family planning services quality as a determinant of use of IUD in Egypt (2006)
Hong, Rathavuth, Montana, Livia, Mishra, Vinod
Abstract Background Both availability and quality of family planning services are believed to have contributed to increasing contraceptive use and declining fertility rates in developing countries....
Mishra, Vinod, Nielsen, Ingrid, Smyth, Russell
This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel...
Mishra, Vinod, Nielsen, Ingrid, Smyth, Russell
This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel...
Does biofuel smoke contribute to anaemia and stunting in early childhood? (2006)
Mishra, Vinod, Retherford, Robert D.
Background Reliance on biomass fuels for cooking and heating exposes many women and young children in developing countries to high levels of air pollution indoors. Exposure to biomass smoke has been...
Mishra, Vinod, Nielsen, Ingrid, Smyth, Russell
This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel...
Background Reliance on biomass for cooking and heating exposes many women and young children in developing countries to high levels of air pollution indoors. This study investigated the association...
Zhou, Tong, Wang, Hong, Luo, Danlin, Rowe, Thomas, Wang, Zheng, Hogan, Robert J., ...
Exposed epitopes of the spike protein may be recognized by neutralizing antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (CoV). A protein fragment (S-II) containing predicted...
Developing a science of land change: Challenges and methodological issues
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Walsh, Stephen J., Turner, B. L., Fox, Jefferson, Mishra, Vinod
Land-change science has emerged as a foundational element of global environment change and sustainability science. It seeks to understand the human and environment dynamics that give rise to changed...
Effect of indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on prevalence of asthma in the elderly.
In this study I examined the effect of cooking smoke on the reported prevalence of asthma among elderly men and women greater than or equal to 60 years old). The analysis is based on 38,595 elderly...
Zhou, Tong, Wang, Hong, Luo, Danlin, Rowe, Thomas, Wang, Zheng, Hogan, Robert J., ...
Exposed epitopes of the spike protein may be recognized by neutralizing antibodies against severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus (CoV). A protein fragment (S-II) containing predicted...
Developing a science of land change: Challenges and methodological issues
Rindfuss, Ronald R., Walsh, Stephen J., Turner, B. L., Fox, Jefferson, Mishra, Vinod
Land-change science has emerged as a foundational element of global environment change and sustainability science. It seeks to understand the human and environment dynamics that give rise to changed...
Effect of indoor air pollution from biomass combustion on prevalence of asthma in the elderly.
In this study I examined the effect of cooking smoke on the reported prevalence of asthma among elderly men and women greater than or equal to 60 years old). The analysis is based on 38,595 elderly...
ARE LABOUR FORCE PARTICIPATION RATES NON-STATIONARY? EVIDENCE FROM 130 YEARS FOR G7 COUNTRIES *
JAKOB MADSEN, VINOD MISHRA, RUSSELL SMYTH
This paper applies a unit root test with a non-linear threshold to examine whether labour force participation rates are mean reverting for G7 countries using annual data over a 130 year period. We...
VINOD MISHRA, RUSSELL SMYTH, TUCK CHEONG TANG
This article applies an unrestricted two-regime threshold autoregressive (TAR) model with an autoregressive unit root to examine the sustainability of the balancing item of the balance of payments...
Sex Differentials in Childhood Feeding, Health Care, and Nutritional Status in India
Vinod Mishra, T. K. Roy, Robert D. Retherford
Strong preference for sons in South Asia is well documented, but evidence on female disadvantage in childhood feeding, health care, and nutritional status is inconclusive. This article examines sex...
The Environment and Well-Being in Urban China
Smyth, Russell, Mishra, Vinod, Qian, Xiaolei
We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, measured as sulphur dioxide emissions, environmental disasters, traffic congestion, access to parkland and well-being in urban China, using...
Kostnader ved høydosebehandling med autolog stam-cellestøtte ved fire norske sentra
Mishra, Vinod, Brinch, Lorentz, Ernst, Peter, Lønseth, May Kristin, Tangen, Jon Magnus, Wikelund, Jenny, ...
Høydosebehandling med autolog stamcellestøtte (HMAS) er rutinebehandling hos selekterte grupper av pasienter med malignt lymfom og myelomatose. Hva er kostnadene ved denne type behandling? I...
Russell Smyth, Ingrid Nielsen, Vinod Mishra
International visitor arrivals to Bali are examined using univariate and panel Lagrange multiplier (LM) unit root tests with one and two structural breaks to ascertain if shocks to the time path of...
Mishra, Vinod, Vaessen, Martin, Boerma, J. Ties, Arnold, Fred, Way, Ann, Barrere, Bernard, ...
OBJECTIVES: To describe the methods used in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) to collect nationally representative data on the prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and assess the...
Estimating money demand functions for South Asian countries
Paresh Narayan, Seema Narayan, Vinod Mishra
Money demand function, Cash-in-advance model, Panel cointegration, Panel Granger causality, C22, C23, E41, E52, P52,
This study examines the impact of the Indian cricket team’s performance in one day international cricket matches on returns on the Indian stock market. The main conclusion of the study is that...
Vinod Mishra, Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth
This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel...
This study examines the impact of the Indian cricket team's performance in one day international cricket matches on returns on the Indian stock market. The main conclusion of the study is that there...
Vinod Mishra, Ingrid Nielsen, Russell Smyth
This paper examines the relationship between the female labour force participation rate and total fertility rate for the G7 countries over the period 1960 to 2004 using panel unit root, panel...
Dietary Diversity, Food Security and Undernourishment: The Vietnamese Evidence *
As is widely known, Vietnam experienced a rise in living standards and a decline in expenditure poverty during the first half of the 1990s. This paper extends this knowledge by providing evidence on...
Hepatitis B infection is highly endemic in Uganda: findings from a national serosurvey
Bwogi, Josephine, Braka, Fiona, Makumbi, Issa, Mishra, Vinod, Bakamutumaho, Barnabas, Nanyunja, Miriam, ...
PRE-CONDITIONS FOR INFLATION TARGETING IN AN EMERGING ECONOMY - THE CASE OF INDIA
This article looks at the preconditions that an emerging economy needs to fulfill, before it can adopt inflation targeting as a monetary policy regime. The study is conducted using the Indian economy...
The energy-GDP nexus: Evidence from a panel of Pacific Island countries
Mishra, Vinod, Smyth, Russell, Sharma, Susan
The Pacific Island countries are small island economies that are increasingly dependent on energy for growth and development, yet highly susceptible to climate change. Thus, the relationship between...
Mishra, Vinod, Sharma, Susan, Smyth, Russell
This study applies the panel stationarity test developed by [Carrion-i-Silvestre et al 2005. Breaking the panels: An application to GDP per capita. Econometrics Journal 8, 159-175] to examine the...