Papers by Moises Neil Seriño
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Annals of Tropical Research
This study aimed to describe the socio-demographic profile of graduates and determine the major f... more This study aimed to describe the socio-demographic profile of graduates and determine the major factors that affect employment outcomes of HEl graduates in Eastern Visayas, Philippines. lt used secondary data from the graduate tracer studies in 2008, involving 2,097 sample graduates who were randomly selected by degree program and year graduated. Ordered logit regression was employed to determine the factors that significantly affect employment outcomes. Communication skills, human relation skills, information technology skills and problem solving skills were found to be the major skills and competencies of graduates with better employment outcomes. Moreover, graduates who earned honors and awards, had higher licensure examination rating, recommendation from influential personalities, good performance in walk-in application and appropriate response to job advertisements are more likely to be employed related to the degree taken up. Graduates in mass communication and documentation h...
Environmental Economics and Policy Studies
Journal of Economic Development
This study investigates the effect of a surging increase in international remittances on poverty ... more This study investigates the effect of a surging increase in international remittances on poverty in developing countries. For this purpose, we analyzed panel data for 66 developing countries from1981 to 2005 using a quantile regression analysis. Our results suggested that international remittances have an uneven effect across poverty quantiles for developing countries. We found that the poverty alleviating effect of remittances was more pronounced in the worst off group or those in the highest quantile (90 th quantile) of poverty.
Annals of Tropical Research
This study aimed to estimate the carbon footprint of Philippine households from consuming various... more This study aimed to estimate the carbon footprint of Philippine households from consuming various goods and services. Data from the Philippine Input-Output Table and Global Trade Analysis Project’s carbon emission coefficients were used to extract the carbon intensities of different economic sectors. The embodied carbon emission from different consumption items was estimated by tracing the associated emission down to its intermediate inputs used in the production. The total household carbon footprint was derived by summing up the carbon emission from each consumption category. Results showed that the highest carbon emitting goods consumed by households are related to expenditure on fuel, light and transportation while nondurable and recreation goods were the least carbon intensive. Different socio-economic characteristics of the households matter in explaining total household carbon footprint. By using non-parametric estimation, results showed a strong positive relationship between ...
Energy, Ecology and Environment
This study investigates the major factors affecting the increase in household carbon emission in ... more This study investigates the major factors affecting the increase in household carbon emission in the Philippines using the well known analytical tool – Kaya identity. The changes in Kaya factors of household emission were analyzed using the logarithmic mean Divisia index. Results show that a positive relationship between emission and income is evident when disaggregating household carbon emission across income quintiles. The increase in carbon emission at the poorest quintile is largely driven by the increase in income while at the richest quintile it is explained more by the increase in energy expenditure relative to income. Overall, the increase in household carbon emission across income quintiles is offset by the decrease in "carbon intensity" of household consumption. If policy makers are keen in stabilizing household carbon emission, they should device policies that aim to improve household energy efficiency.
DLSU Business & Economics Review
This paper examines the effect of international remittances on the Philippines economy, both in t... more This paper examines the effect of international remittances on the Philippines economy, both in the short run and in the long run, using a standard cointegration method. Results of the analysis show that remittances have a positive significant effect on the Philippines economy in the long run. This translates to a 0.018% increase in the economy's gross domestic product when the remittances sent by overseas workers to the Philippines increases by 1%. However in the short run, remittances negatively affect the economy's output, which implies that an increase in remittances sent to the country is associated with a decline in the economy's output
DLSU Business & Economics Review
This study aimed to explore and decompose income inequality in Eastern Visayas, Philippines into ... more This study aimed to explore and decompose income inequality in Eastern Visayas, Philippines into the following factors: location (urban-rural), age, educational attainment, and sources of income using expenditure and income approach for 2000 and 2006. Inequality in the region remains high but tends to diminish mildly. Using decomposition analysis, results revealed that inequality is mostly explained by the within-group inequality component. When decomposing inequality by income source, results showed that total inequality is largely influenced by wage income while income from agricultural sector contributed the least share to total inequality. In addition, an increase in wage income will further aggravate inequality while an increase in income from agriculture sector will tend to reduce inequality. Policy makers should refocus its efforts in enhancing agricultural productivity as means of easing out inequality in the region. It is often heard that in the Philippines, "the poor ...
The Developing Economies, 2015
Estimation of a household carbon footprint in developed countries is abundant in the literature b... more Estimation of a household carbon footprint in developed countries is abundant in the literature but there are few studies from developing countries. This paper presents an estimation of household carbon emission from the consumption of various goods and services in the Philippines. We estimate household emissions by combining inputoutput analysis with household expenditure for 2000 and 2006. After controlling for household characteristics, the analyses reveal that income has a significant nonlinear relationship with emissions, depicting an inverted U-shaped with a turning point beyond the current income distribution. Unless consumption patterns change, it is likely that there will be further increases in emissions as households become more affluent.
Annals of Tropical Research, Nov 15, 2017
Annals of Tropical Research, 2017
This study was conducted to assess the profitability of small-scale vegetable production in the V... more This study was conducted to assess the profitability of small-scale vegetable production in the Visayas, particularly in the islands Leyte, Samar and Bohol. The data used in the study was taken from baseline survey on vegetable production in the Visayas. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regression analyses were used in analysing factors that influence profitability. Results show that significant factors that affect profitability include cropping practices and market outlets. This suggests that profitability of small-scale vegetable production measured in terms of gross margins will tend to increase with the practice of multi-cropping and intercropping systems. With limited farm size, farmers can maximize the yield of vegetable production through intercropping and multi-cropping practice. In addition, primary market outlet affects profitability implying that better access to market translates to higher profitability. Results of the study suggest that to improve profitability of farmers in Leyte, Samar and Bohol, policy makers, researchers and technicians should focus on optimizing the cropping system. Farmers should be trained to identify vegetables that produce a better yield in an intercropping and multi-cropping system. This should also be complemented with better access to market. Farm to market road should be improved so that farmers can easily link their production to the market.
Annals of Tropical Research , 2017
Protected cropping technology has been introduced to address the inability of farmers to achieve ... more Protected cropping technology has been introduced to address the inability of farmers to achieve a successful year-round vegetable production. However, small scale farmers are reluctant to adopt this technology due to huge investment costs and the risk associated with extreme weather conditions. Hence, this study was conducted in some parts of Leyte, to evaluate the profitability and assess the risk of protected and open-field cultivation during the occurrence of extreme weather conditions such as tropical cyclones and strong wind phenomena. Results show that protected cultivation generates higher yields compared to open field cultivation. In Baybay site, investment on steel-type high-strength-tunnel covered with polyethylene plastic is the most viable option as it attained the highest net present values (NPVs), benefit-cost ratios (BCRs) and internal rate of return (IRRs). It also has the earliest payback period across different climatic scenarios. At the Cabintan site, the low-tunnel-structure is the most viable when a high-end market is established. This implies that market outlet is one of the critical factors affecting profitability and pricing. Given the potential of protected cultivation in minimizing crop failures, it is recommended that the government and private sector shall extend financial and technical assistance to farmers. Investors shall be covered with crop and structure insurances as risk of crop failures and loss of capital is high during inclement weather conditions.
Annals of Tropical Research, 2017
This study aims to survey the farm practices of small scale vegetable farmers, evaluate gender ro... more This study aims to survey the farm practices of small scale vegetable farmers, evaluate gender roles in farming and assess the changes in farm income of farmers engaged in integrated crop management. The respondents of the study include randomly selected small-scale vegetable farmers trained under the farmer field school (FFS) in Bohol, Leyte and Samar. Randomly selected non-FFS farmers serve as control group. Information on farm practices between non-FFS and FFS respondents are used in determining the changes in farm outcomes. Results show that FFS and non-FFS farmers mostly planted eggplant, bitter gourd, beans, sweet pepper, pechay, squash, tomato and okra. The farm areas of surveyed respondents are mostly located around 10 kilometers away from their primary market with an approximate traveling time of half an hour. During the baseline survey, FFS farmers indicated that they are mostly unsatisfied with their current vegetable production in contrast to non-FFS farmers who expressed satisfaction with their current production. However, in the follow-up survey FFS group expressed relatively higher optimism than non-FFS group in terms of their vegetable production suggesting that the project interventions were able to encourage small scale farmers to incorporate necessary improvements in their practices. For gender roles in vegetable production, men are into labor intensive tasks while women focus mostly on record keeping and monitoring sales of vegetables. Lastly, employing the method of difference in difference shows that the impact of farmer field school on integrated crop management increases vegetable farm income by around PHP4,300.00 per year per farm.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), 2012
Forests used to be one of the richest natural resources in the Philippines. Barely sixty years ag... more Forests used to be one of the richest natural resources in the Philippines. Barely sixty years ago more than 40% of the islands' land surface was covered with forest; now only about 24% remains. The combined effects of indiscriminate logging, mining, inadequate forest protection, fires, pests, expansion of upland agriculture, and unplanned land conversion are cited as the main causes of forest depletion. The decline in forest cover goes along with a significant loss of ecological services provided by forests, such as biodiversity conservation, storage capacity for water, prevention of soil degradation and soil erosion. Forests are where millions of Filipinos dwell in and is their source of livelihood. Forest loss is also associated with deteriorating living conditions of forest dependent communities.
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Papers by Moises Neil Seriño