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Chapter 31. The Economics and Econometrics of Active Labor Market Programs
Heckman, James J.; Lalonde, Robert J.; Smith, Jeffrey A. - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 3, part A, (pp. 1865-2097). 1999
Policy makers view public sector-sponsored employment and training programs and other active labor market policies as tools for integrating the unemployed and economically disadvantaged into the work force. Few public sector programs have received such intensive scrutiny, and been subjected to...
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Chapter 70 Econometric Evaluation of Social Programs, Part I: Causal Models, Structural Models and Econometric Policy Evaluation
Heckman, James J.; Vytlacil, Edward J. - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6B, (pp. 4779-4874). 2007
causality that build on Cowles Commission econometrics. These models anticipate and extend the literature on causal inference in …
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Some concerns about Econometric Techniques. Comments on “In Praise of Structural Macroeconometrics”/Algunas consideraciones en torno a las técnicas econométricas. Comentarios al ar...
PÉREZ GARCÍA, JULIÁN - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 24 (2006) Abril, pp. 299-310
Econometrics, second one deals with the old debate between the prevalence of the statistical information or the underlying theory …
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Econometría espacial: más luces que sombras
PAELINCK, J.; MUR, J.; TRÍVEZ, J. - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 22 (2004) Diciembre, pp. 1-19
con los autores, debería evolucionar el programa de investigación futuro en Econometría espacial. Spatial Econometrics is … that dominate mainstream Econometrics. Extending our reflections, in the second part of the paper we present the main … points around which, in our view, the future research programme in Spatial Econometrics must evolve. …
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Chapter 64 Structural Econometric Modeling: Rationales and Examples from Industrial Organization
Reiss, Peter C.; Wolak, Frank A. - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4277-4415). 2007
This chapter explains the logic of structural econometric models and compares them to other types of econometric models. We provide a framework researchers can use to develop and evaluate structural econometric models. This framework pays particular attention to describing different sources of...
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Economic Choices
McFadden, Daniel - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 3, pp. 351-378
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Greening Household Behaviour : Cross-domain Comparisons in Environmental Attitudes and Behaviours Using Spatial Effects
Brown, Zachary - 2014
Discussions of the importance of public attitudes in shaping policy often lack clear evidence on causal relations between stated attitudes and observed behaviours. The 2011 OECD Survey of over 12,000 households allows analysing households’ environmental attitudes and behaviours in five...
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The divergence of the high and low frequency estimation : causes and consequences
Kinlaw, William; Kritzman, Mark; Turkington, David - 2014 - This version: May 2, 2014
Financial analysts typically estimate volatilities and correlations from monthly or higher frequency returns when determining the optimal composition of a portfolio. Although it is widely acknowledged that these measures are not necessarily stationary across samples, most analysts assume...
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Why Are Indian Children So Short?
Jayachandran, Seema; Pande, Rohini - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller than African firstborns; the Indian height...
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Why Are Indian Children So Short?
Jayachandran, Seema; Pande, Rohini - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
India's child stunting rate is among the highest in the world, exceeding that of many poorer African countries. In this paper, we analyze data for over 174,000 Indian and Sub-Saharan African children to show that Indian firstborns are taller than African firstborns; the Indian height...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207396