Browsing by UP Author "Clance, M.W. (Matthew)"

Browsing by UP Author "Clance, M.W. (Matthew)"

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  • Climate change and child malnutrition : a Nigerian perspective 
    Van der Merwe, Eduard; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Yitbarek, Eleni (Elsevier, 2022-11)
    Erratic temperatures and precipitation influence nutrition, human capital investment, and living standards, particularly for children. This study investigates the effect of climate change (changes in the monthly maximum ...
  • Climate change and inequality : evidence from the United States 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Sheng, Xin; Gupta, Rangan (MDPI, 2023-03-17)
    This paper examines the effects of climate change on income inequality in the United States. Computing impulse response functions (IRFs) from the local projections’ method, we empirically show that there is an immediate ...
  • Conflict heterogeneity in Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew) (Wiley, 2021-12)
    The economic development literature widely concurs that conflicts have adverse economic consequences that contribute to poverty, disinvestment and lower human capital leading to widespread inequality and lower economic ...
  • The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) and output volatility : high vs. low income countries 
    Breitenbach, M.C. (Marthinus); Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew) (Routledge, 2022)
    In this study, we explore whether more complex economies are better shielded against exogenous shocks. We contribute to the literature on determinants of output volatility with a relatively new index on productive capabilities ...
  • The effectiveness of monetary and fiscal policy shocks on U.S. inequality : the role of uncertainty 
    Aye, Goodness Chioma; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan (Springer, 2019-01)
    The study examines the effect of monetary and fiscal policy on inequality conditioned on low and high uncertainty. We use U.S. quarterly time series data on different measures of income, labour earnings, consumption and ...
  • Geopolitical risks and recessions in a panel of advanced economies : evidence from over a century of data 
    Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan; Wohar, Mark E. (Routledge, 2019)
    This paper uses a panel of 17 advanced countries over the annual period of 1899–2013, to analyze for the first time, the role played by geopolitical risks in predicting recessions. After controlling for other standard ...
  • Giant oil discoveries and conflicts 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan; Wohar, Mark (Springer, 2024-06)
    This study investigates the effects of oil discoveries on conflict. We propose that the effects from oil discoveries may differ depending on types of conflicts, mainly interstate versus intrastate. Using a measure for ...
  • Government effectiveness and the COVID-19 pandemic 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Gupta, Rangan; Clance, M.W. (Matthew) (MDPI, 2021-03-10)
    The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to derail progress achieved in sustainable development. This study investigates the effectiveness of government policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, namely the number of deaths. Using ...
  • Heterogeneous effects of economic integration agreements 
    Baier, Scott L.; Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Clance, M.W. (Matthew) (Elsevier, 2018-11)
    It is now widely accepted that economic integration agreements (EIAs) and other trade-policy liberalizations contribute to nations' economic growth and development and help alleviate poverty. However, the economic effects ...
  • Household debt and consumption dynamics : a non-developed world view following the financial crisis 
    Bosch, Adel; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Koch, Steven F. (Routledge, 2022)
    According to recent macroeconomic evidence, the global financial crisis is still impacting the South African financial landscape more than 10 years later. In an effort to better understand the effect of the financial crisis, ...
  • Income inequality and oil resources : panel evidence from the United States 
    Berisha, Edmond; Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan (Elsevier, 2021-12)
    The resource curse is sometimes associated with poor resource-rich countries. However, using panel evidence from the United States, we find that the resource curse is also prevalent in a wealthy resource-rich country. This ...
  • Online and face-to-face learning : evidence from students’ performance during the Covid-19 pandemic 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Mthembu, Thulani; Nicholls, Nicky; Yitbarek, Eleni (Wiley, 2021)
    This study investigates the factors that predict students' performance after transitioning from face-to-face to online learning as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. It uses students' responses from survey questions and ...
  • Predicting firm-level volatility in the United States : the role of monetary policy uncertainty 
    Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Demirer, Riza; Gupta, Rangan; Kyei, Clement Kweku (Universidad de Oviedo, 2020)
    This paper provides novel evidence for the predictive power of monetary policy uncertainty (MPU) over stock return volatility at the firm level based on a dataset constructed from 9,458 U.S. firms. Our findings show that ...
  • The relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate tax rates 
    Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gozgor, Giray; Gupta, Rangan; Lau, Chi Keung Marco (World Scientific Publishing, 2021-04)
    This paper investigates the relationship between economic policy uncertainty and corporate tax rates in a panel dataset of 126 countries throughout 2003–2018. We use the so-called “World Uncertainty Index” to measure the ...
  • Ruggedness and child health outcomes : evidence from Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Van der Merwe, Fritz; Yitbarek, Eleni (Wiley, 2023-12)
    This paper examines the effect of terrain ruggedness on child stunting in Burundi, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Nigeria. Using a cross-section analysis with data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and a measure that ...
  • Social institutions, gender attitudes and female labour force participation in sub-Saharan Africa 
    Zawaira, Tendai; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Chisadza, Carolyn (Wiley, 2023-06)
    Using data from the Ethnographic Atlas and World Values Survey within a structural equation modelling (GSEM) framework, we analyse how historical social institutions and current gender attitudes influence female employment ...
  • Uncertainty and tourism in Africa 
    Chisadza, Carolyn; Clance, M.W. (Matthew); Gupta, Rangan; Wanke, Peter (Sage, 2022-06)
    Tourism growth is on the rise in Africa, and yet limited empirical evidence exists that explores the factors that drive this important contributor of economic growth on the continent. Previous literature focuses mainly on ...