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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm: The Impact of Training in Retail
Hinerasky, Christiane; Fahr, René - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325437
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Health Care Expenditure and Income in the OECD Reconsidered: Evidence from Panel Data
Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper reconsiders the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income using a panel of … cointegration properties between health care spending and income. This is done in a panel data context controlling for both cross … dependence. Heterogeneity is handled through fixed effects in a panel homogeneous model and through a panel heterogeneous model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008547894
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African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Leaders are critical to a country’s success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country’s economic growth. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765229
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors: An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices...
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and … spatial lag dependent variable and where the heterogeneity in the panel is incorporated via an error component specification … spatial autocorrelation and random effects for this spatial SUR panel model. The small sample performance of the proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682245
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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care
Baltagi, Badi H.; Moscone, Francesco; Tosetti, Elisa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the factors that determine differences across OECD countries in health outcomes, using data on life expectancy at age 65, over the period 1960 to 2007. We estimate a production function where life expectancy depends on health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854777
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A General Double Robustness Result for Estimating Average Treatment Effects
Sloczynski, Tymon; Wooldridge, Jeffrey M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In this paper we study doubly robust estimators of various average treatment effects under unconfoundedness. We unify and extend much of the recent literature by providing a very general identification result which covers binary and multi-valued treatments; unnormalized and normalized weighting;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757772
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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?
Síle O’Dorchai; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of parttime work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703266
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Treatment Evaluation in the Case of Interactions within Markets
Ferracci, Marc; Jolivet, Grégory; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We extend the standard evaluation framework to allow for interactions between individuals within segmented markets. An individual's outcome depends not only on the assigned treatment status but also on (features of) the distribution of the assigned treatments in his market. To evaluate how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543253
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On the Sensitivity of Return to Schooling Estimates to Estimation Methods, Model Specification, and Influential Outliers If Identification Is Weak
Jaeger, David A.; Parys, Juliane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We provide a comparison of return to schooling estimates based on an influential study by Angrist and Krueger (1991) using two stage least squares (TSLS), limited information maximum likelihood (LIML), jackknife (JIVE), and split sample instrumental variables (SSIV) estimation. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030897
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A Permutation Test and Estimation Alternatives for the Regression Kink Design
Ganong, Peter; Jäger, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The Regression Kink (RK) design is an increasingly popular empirical method, with more than 20 studies circulated using RK in the last 5 years since the initial circulation of Card, Lee, Pei and Weber (2012). We document empirically that these estimates, which typically use local linear...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790521