This study analyzes skill content from the occupational structure of the Thai economy. The measurements of skill inputs show that provincial GDP per capita increased with non-routine cognitive analytical skills, non-routine interpersonal skills, and routine cognitive skills in a monotonic way,...

Using the Labor Force Surveys, this paper examines trends and heterogeneity in hourly earnings on gender pay gaps among wage workers in Thailand, as well as decomposition for gender wage gap. The decomposition explains impacts on the declined gender wage gap from heterogeneity in characteristics...

A common problem encountered in demand estimation especially using microdata is the presence of high number of zeroes purchased - the problem of zero inflation. One possible solution is the constrained zero-inflated generalized additive model which is a two-component mixture model specifying the...

School accountability — the process of evaluating school performance based on student performance measures — is increasingly prevalent across countries around the world. This study uses survey data from the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2009 to assess how various...

Replaced with revised version of poster 08/30/11.

Replaced with revised version of poster 08/30/11.