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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...
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Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
Conniffe, Denis; O'Neill, Donal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703303
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Non-Response Biases in Surveys of School Children: The Case of the English PISA Samples
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke V.; Skinner, Chris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592862
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School Quality, Educational Attainment and Aggregation Bias
Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703180
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vella, Francis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703287
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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822726
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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails
Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822784
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Social Ties and Subjective Performance Evaluations: An Empirical Investigation
Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...
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Economic Status, Air Quality, and Child Health: Evidence from Inversion Episodes
Jans, Jenny; Johansson, Per; Nilsson, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
the effects of air quality on children's health. The IV estimates show that the respiratory illness health care visit rate …. Importantly, by linking the health care data to detailed records of parental background characteristics, we show that children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990938
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Does the Size of the Effect of Adverse Events at High Ages on Daily-Life Physical Functioning Depend on the Economic Conditions Around Birth?
Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper considers determinants of physical-functional limitations in daily-life activities at high ages. Specifically, we quantify the extent to which the impact of adverse life events on this outcome is larger in case of exposure to adverse economic conditions early in life. Adverse life...
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