Using the French data set “2002 Employment Survey�, this paper aims to shed light on the nature of the gender wage differential in France, exploring the added-value of a non-parametric analysis over previous knowledge based on parametric estimates. The parametric...

We study participation and relative earnings in the formal, informal, and self-employed sectors in Bolivia. We estimate quantile earnings equations corrected for self-selectivity to address potential biases in the estimates of relative earnings gaps due to the endogeneity of sector...

This paper estimates return to schooling for african and coloured women in South Africa. It compares parametric and semiparametric estimates of the sample selection model for the case of return to schooling. The parametric estimator is the one proposed by Heckman (1979) and the semiparametric...

This paper investigates the process by which a cohort of males accumulate human capital via formal education and labor market participation. I use all available annual waves of the 1979 youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience (NLSY79) to estimate a dynamic...

This paper seeks to quantify sources of variation in annual job earnings data collected by the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and to determine how much of the variation is the result of measurement error. To this end, jobs reported in the SIPP are linked to jobs reported...

Even tough child labor is a wide spread phenomena in Bolivia, little is known about its main determinants. By using a bivariate probit model in order to take into account the joint nature of the decisions between labor and schooling, this paper investigates which are the key factors that...

A large portion of the rise in the education premium can be explained by a signaling theory of education which predicts that in the future, increases in the education level of the workforce will actually cause the education premium to rise, simply because different workers are being labeled as...

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where agents face different costs of access to the educational system. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities (in the form of differential costs of access to the educational process) and...

This paper utilizes a nonparametric panel data sample selection model to correct selection bias in the analysis of longitudinal medical claims data. Selection bias in the health economics data is a common problem and many health economists have used Heckman type selection models in...

This paper considers a spatial panel data regression model with serial correlation on each spatial unit over time as well as spatial dependence between the spatial units at each point in time. In addition, the model allows for heterogeneity across the spatial units using random effects. The...