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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification

Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

In semiparametric binary response models, support conditions on the regressors are required to guarantee point identification of the parameter of interest. For example,one regressor is usually assumed to have continuous support conditional on the other regressors. In some instances, such...

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Binary Choice Models with Discrete Regressors: Identification and Misspecification

Komarova, Tatiana - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2012

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Smoothed Income Poverty in European Countries

Kuchler, Birgit; Goebel, Jan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to obtain by combining two longitudinal perspectives a more detailed national picture of poverty in the Member States of the European Union, using the _rst four waves (1994 - 1997) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). In addition to this detailed...

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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct cardinal individual welfare function has to be...

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Are People Inequality Averse, and Do They Prefer Redistribution by the State?: Evidence from German Longitudinal Data on Life Satisfaction

Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre-government income distribution at the regional level, to … estimate the degree of inequality aversion. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state … increases individual well-being. We find that Germans are inequality averse over the entire income distribution. However …

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