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History of Historical Statistics of the United States
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in 1949 as a time-series supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, it has inspired similar...
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Panel Unit Root Tests in the Presence of a Multifactor Error Structure
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Yamagata, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed by Pesaran (2007) to the case of a multifactor error structure. The basic idea is to exploit information regarding the unobserved factors that are shared by other time series in addition to the variable under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762413
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Testing Dependence among Serially Correlated Multi-Category Variables
Pesaran, M. Hashem; Timmermann, Allan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
tests are useful, for example, when testing for predictability of one sequence of discrete random variables by means of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763908
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Testing for Nonparametric Identification of Causal Effects in the Presence of a Quasi-Instrument
de Luna, Xavier; Johansson, Per - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The identification of average causal effects of a treatment in observational studies is typically based either on the unconfoundedness assumption or on the availability of an instrument. When available, instruments may also be used to test for the unconfoundedness assumption (exogeneity of the...
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When the Cat Is Near, the Mice Won't Play: The Effect of External Examiners in Italian Schools
Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We use a natural experiment to show that the presence of an external examiner in standardized school tests reduces the proportion of correct answers in monitored classes by 5.5 to 8.5% – depending on the grade and the test – with respect to classes in schools with no external monitor. We...
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Unscheduled School Closings and Student Performance
Marcotte, Dave E.; Hemelt, Steven W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Do students perform better on statewide assessments in years in which they have more school days to prepare? We explore this question using data on math and reading assessments taken by students in the 3rd, 5th and 8th grades since 1994 in Maryland. Our identification strategy is rooted in the...
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Testing the Correlated Random Coefficient Model
Heckman, James J.; Schmierer, Daniel; Urzua, Sergio - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The recent literature on instrumental variables (IV) features models in which agents sort into treatment status on the basis of gains from treatment as well as on baseline-pretreatment levels. Components of the gains known to the agents and acted on by them may not be known by the observing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527326
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Evaluating Dominance Ranking of PSID Incomes by Various Household Attributes
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
We examine the dynamic evolution of incomes, both disposable and gross, for several groups in the PSID panel data at several points from 1968 to 1997. We employ the extended Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests of First and Second Order Stochastic Dominance (SD) as implemented by Maasoumi and Heshmati...
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The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis
Vermeulen, Frederic; Cherchye, Laurens; Rock, Bram De - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
nonparametric testing tools for data consistency with special cases of the collective model, which impose specific structure on the … preferences of the group members (in terms of consumption externalities and public consumption); and we show that these testing … income shares that underlie observed (collectively rational) group behavior. In addition, we present formally similar testing …
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Joint Leisure Before and After Retirement: A Double Regression Discontinuity Approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; van Soest, Arthur - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France,...
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