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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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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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Legal Corruption, Politically Connected Corporate Governance and Firm Performance

Domadenik, Polona; Prašnikar, Janez; Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper we present and test a theory of how political corruption, found in many transition and emerging market … institutions that do not punish political corruption result in political connectedness of firms that in turn has a negative effect …

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Emigration, Remittances and Corruption Experience of Those Staying Behind

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant …

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Social Audits and MGNREGA Delivery: Lessons from Andhra Pradesh

Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

are laid out and credibly enforced. Our findings suggest a changing anatomy of corruption, where transgressors keep one …

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Give and You Shall Receive: The Emergence of Welfare-Reducing Reciprocity

Murray, Cameron K.; Frijters, Paul; Vorster, Melissa - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We develop a new experiment to study the emergence of welfare-reducing bilateral alliances within larger groups, and the effectiveness of institutional interventions to curtail this reciprocal alliance behaviour. In each of the 25 rounds of our experiments, a player (the 'allocator') nominates...

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