UP School of Economics Library

30/07/2026

Attention, UPSE community! Please be advised that the UP School of Economics Library has temporarily relocated. Our library staff can be found in Rooms 341 & 342 during the current library transfer process.

For library clearances and all other transactions, please proceed directly to this temporary location.

Thank you for your cooperation and understanding during this time!

24/07/2026

🎉🌻Congratulations to Patricia Eurielle Narvaez, Kyla Marie Paderes, and Dr. Karl Robert Jandoc on their new journal article entitled "Implications of the Effect of Different Types of Intimate Partner Violence on the Use of Contraceptives by Mothers: Evidence from the Philippines."

📕𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁
This study examines the association between different dimensions of intimate partner violence (IPV)—physical violence, emotional abuse, and sexual violence—and mothers’ contraceptive use, including current use of modern and natural methods as well as ever use of specific contraceptive methods, using data from the Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey (CLHNS) and propensity score matching. The results indicate that contraceptive behavior varies by type of IPV exposure. Physical violence is associated with a higher probability of current modern contraceptive use and a lower probability of relying on some natural methods. Emotional abuse is associated with a higher probability of ever using withdrawal and condoms, while sexual violence is associated with a lower probability of ever using condoms and a higher probability of abstinence. Overall, the findings suggest that different forms of IPV are associated with distinct patterns of contraceptive behavior. These results underscore the importance of reproductive health policies and services that are responsive to women’s vulnerability to partner violence and that strengthen informed and autonomous contraceptive decision-making.

📍 Access the paper here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08862605261463190

23/07/2026

𝓗𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷 𝓜𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓪𝔂, 27 July 2026. 10:00 AM via Zoom.

🎓 UPSE-PCED Seminar featuring Dr. Gabriel Angelo B. Domingo, an applied economist and Assistant Professor at the UP Diliman School of Economics. He works on Industrial Organization, Macroeconomics, and Applied Microeconomics.

🧠📚💡Abstract: This paper contributes to two literatures: the cross-country determinants of financial health protection, and the costs of sovereign debt default. On the first, I update the literature on the determinants of financial health protection using more recent data on out-of-pocket expenditure (OOP), the primary measure of financial health risk. I also introduce a newer measure of financial health protection — the "financial hardship" measure, now one of the official indicators of financial protection monitored under the SDGs — and compare it with the more established "catastrophic" and "impoverishing" health expenditure measures. Importantly, financial health protection measures are strongly related to GDP per capita. On the second, I contribute to the empirical literature on the costs of sovereign debt default by linking default episodes to GDP per capita using a new dataset for determining sovereign debt default. Finally, I decompose the proportion of the direct and indirect or mediated effect debt default has on OOP where the indirect effect operates through GDP. I find that the new measure of sovereign debt default I use lowers real GDP per capita by 2%, similar to findings of leading scholars of sovereign debt default, and that the effect on out-of-pocket health expenditure is mostly mediated through real GDP per capita.

📝 This is purely via Zoom. Please register using the link below or by scanning the QR code in the poster:
📍 https://tinyurl.com/3nesr6dy

23/07/2026

14/07/2026

📢 Notice of Temporary Closure: UPSE Library Relocation

Please be informed that the UPSE Library is currently CLOSED as we begin our official transfer to our newly renovated library space.

🗓️ Closure Details

Start Date: July 14, 2026
Expected Reopening: Until further notice

🔄 What You Need to Know During the Closure

Physical Access & Borrowing: Physical access to the stacks, reading rooms, and printed collections is temporarily suspended.

Online Services: Our digital resources, e-journals, and online databases remain fully accessible through the library portal.

Book Returns: You may still drop by the library and hand over the book to any of our library staff.

Urgent Inquiries: If you require immediate assistance or specific research support, please send us a message or reach out to us via email at [email protected].

We are incredibly excited to welcome you back to a modernized, more comfortable, and upgraded learning environment. Thank you for your patience and cooperation as we make this transition.

Stay tuned for updates regarding our grand reopening!

13/07/2026

07/07/2026

Has the Philippines finally broken free from its historical status as the "sick man of Asia"? 🇵🇭📈

📢 "The Philippine economy: no longer the East Asian exception? Revisited"
✍️ By Hal Hill

Years after his initial assessments, Hill revisits the trajectory of the Philippine economy and its standing among its East Asian neighbors. A must-read for macroeconomic policy watchers. Check out the original post below for the full article link! 👇

The June 2026 issue of the Philippine Review of Economics (PRE) is out now! The PRE is a joint publication of the UP School of Economics and the Philippine Economic Society. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, RePEc, EconLit, Google Scholar, and EBSCO, among others.

📗 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

🎯 The Philippine economy: no longer the East Asian exception? Revisited
📝 Author: Hal Hill
📌 Link to the full article: https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/index.php/pre/article/view/1088

06/07/2026

Ever wonder why your favorite restaurant uses both GrabFood and Foodpanda, or why drivers switch between apps? 🛵🍔

📢 "Multihoming and platform choice in online food delivery"
✍️ By Edgardo Manuel Jopson, Fabio M. Manenti, Franco Mariuzzo, Shereena S. Salas, and Junjun Zhang

This paper explores how users and providers navigate multiple platforms. A must-read for anyone interested in the digital economy and competition policy. Check out the original post below for the full DOI link! 👇

The June 2026 issue of the Philippine Review of Economics (PRE) is out now! The PRE is a joint publication of the UP School of Economics and the Philippine Economic Society. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS, RePEc, EconLit, Google Scholar, and EBSCO, among others.

📗 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲

🎯 Multihoming and platform choice in online food delivery
📝 Authors: Edgardo Manuel Jopson, Fabio M. Manenti, Franco Mariuzzo, Shereena S. Salas, and Junjun Zhang
📌 Link to the full article: https://doi.org/10.37907/5ERP6202J

06/07/2026

📢 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗨𝗣𝗦𝗘 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿

🎯 DP No. 2026-07: The Paradox of Arrival: Philippine Upper-Middle Income Reclassification and the Unfinished Structural Transformation
📝𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿: E. Annette Balaoing-Pelkmans

📕𝗔𝗯𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁: On July 2, 2026, the World Bank officially reclassified the Philippines as an upper-middle income country. This paper argues that the reclassification, while reflecting genuine macroeconomic progress, conceals a structural paradox: the Philippines has crossed the income threshold without completing the productive transformation that earlier countries at the same level achieved. The paper documents three structural deficits that make the upper-middle income phase particularly demanding: a manufacturing base that is the weakest among the ASEAN-6 economies, an export basket that has not diversified toward more sophisticated products, and productivity growth driven by within-sector efficiency rather than the cross-sector labor reallocation that characterizes genuine structural transformation. Central to the analysis is the overseas Filipino worker model, four decades of institutionalized labor export whose income-generating effects and structural consequences have become deeply intertwined in ways that complicate the next phase of development. The paper argues that the Tatak Pinoy Strategy, the country's first legislatively mandated industrial strategy, represents not just a policy framework but an opportunity to discover a distinctively Filipino development path through co-governance and adaptive learning, rather than through the import-and-replicate model that has repeatedly fallen short.

📍 Link to the paper:
https://pre.econ.upd.edu.ph/upsedp/index.php/dp/article/view/1574/1062