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Another Look at the Identification of Dynamic Discrete Decision Processes

Aguirregabiria, Victor - EconWPA - 2005

the context of dynamic decision models where the current utility function and the distribution of unobservables are … nonparametrically specified. Previous studies have shown that the identification of the current utility function in dynamic decision … utility function (or of a 'normalized' utility function) is not necessary to identify counterfactual choice probabilities in …

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Match Rates and Savings: Evidence from Individual Development Accounts

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

but that higher match rates do not increase--and may decrease--the level of savings. This paper analyzes saving by low-income …

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Theoretical Aspects of Retirement Decisions

Verbic, Miroslav - EconWPA - 2002

retirement decision as a static approach. Comparative static version of this model enables the determination of income, wealth … the expected value of future income flows. Merely the first problem can be solved by the reservation wage approach, but …

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Impact of NSF support for basic research in economics

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - EconWPA - 1997

This paper studies the relationship between NSF funding and the publications of US economists using data on 1473 applications to NSF during 1985-1990, 414 of which were awarded a research grant. We first outline a basic methodology for assessing the impact of the NSF support for basic research...

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Understanding the Effects of Siblings on Child Mortality: Evidence from India

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2005

This paper examines the efffect of siblings on child mortality in the Indian state of West Bengal arguing that prior and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings are important measures of the intensity of competition among siblings for limited resources. Parental decisions regarding...

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Persistence of Innovation: Stylised Facts and Panel Data Evidence

Peters, Bettina - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm-level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...

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Understanding the Effects of Sibling Composition on Child

Makepeace, Gerald; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper argues that spacing between consecutive births is an important aspect of competition among siblings for survival. Since parents simultaneously choose their desired values of birth spacing and the amount of time and other resources invested in children (which in turn affect child...

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Early Childbirth, Health Inputs and Child Mortality: Recent Evidence from Bangladesh

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the relationship between early childbearing, parental use of health inputs and child mortality in Bangladesh. In order to account for the potential endogeneity of the age at birth and use of health inputs, (hospital delivery and child vaccination) in the child mortality...

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Factors Influencing Brazilian Firms in their Decision to List on Foreign Stock Exchanges

Medeiros, Otavio De; Tiberio, Carmem - EconWPA - 2005

The paper’s purpose is to determine empirically factors that influence Brazilian firms in their decision to cross-border list their stock. The methodology adopted involves an economic analysis of Brazilian cross- listed firms, characterizing and differentiating them from non cross- listed...

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Tests for the consistency of three-level nested logit models with utility maximization.

Gil-Moltó, María José; Hole, Arne Risa - EconWPA - 2003

random utility maximization. We find that for a model with two sub-nests per nest the conditions can lead to a substantial …

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