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Reconciling workless measures at the individual and household level: theory and evidence from the United States, Britain, Germany, Spain and Australia
Gregg, Paul; Scutella, Rosanna; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
Individual and household based aggregate measures of worklessness can, and do, offer conflicting signals about labour market performance. We outline a means of quantifying the extent of any disparity, (polarisation), in the signals stemming from individual and household-based measures of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744988
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Identifying fraud in democratic elections: a case study of the 2004 presidential elections in Mozambique
Hanlon, Joseph; Fox, Sean - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
The 2004 Presidential Election in Mozambique was marred by allegations of fraud. We assess the validity of these allegations by testing whether or not qualitative descriptions of the methods and locations of misconduct are consistent with a series of simple quantitative tests. Most studies of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745221
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Ambiguity and climate policy
Millner, Antony; Dietz, Simon; Heal, Geoffrey - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Economic evaluation of climate policy traditionally treats uncertainty by appealing to expected utility theory. Yet our knowledge of the impacts of climate policy may not be of sufficient quality to justify probabilistic beliefs. In such circumstances, it has been argued that the axioms of...
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Quantile uncorrelation and instrumental regression
Komarova, Tatiana; Severini, Thomas; Tamer, Elie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We introduce a notion of median uncorrelation that is a natural extension of mean (linear) uncorrelation. A scalar random variable Y is median uncorrelated with a kdimensional random vector X if and only if the slope from an LAD regression of Y on X is zero. Using this simple definition, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745590
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Improved Lagrange multiplier tests in spatial autoregressions
Robinson, Peter M.; Rossi, Francesca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
For testing lack of correlation against spatial autoregressive alternatives, Lagrange multiplier tests enjoy their usual computational advantages, but the (χ2) first-order asymptotic approximation to critical values can be poor in small samples. We develop refined tests for lack of spatial...
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Education or inflation? The roles of structural factors and macroeconomic instability in explaining Brazilian inequality in the 1980s
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Litchfield, Julie A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …. While the static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household … head, as well as geographic location, can account for a substantial proportion of inequality levels, a dynamic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928756
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The effect of parental wealth on children’s outcomes in early adulthood
Karagiannaki, Eleni - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This paper presents the first UK estimates of the association between parental wealth during adolescence and a range of children’s outcomes in early adulthood. Parental wealth is positively associated with all outcomes examined (which include educational attainment, employment, earnings and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746617
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It’s where you work: increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of ln … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … direct attention to the fundamental role of establishment-level pay setting and economic adjustments in earnings inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126610
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Conscience accounting: emotional dynamics and social behaviour
Madarász, Kristóf; Gneezy, Uri; Imas, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
We develop a simple dynamic model of decision making in the presence of moral constraints. Norm violations induce a temporal feeling of guilt that depreciates with time. Due to endogenous fluctuations of guilt, people exhibit a dynamic inconsistency in social preferences—a behavior we term...
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Performativity, economics and politics: an overview
Cochoy, Franck; Giraudeau, Martin; McFall, Liz - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884751