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Does the rotten child spoil his companion?: spatial peer effects among children in rural india

Helmers, Christian; Patnam, Manasa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

cognitive development in Andhra Pradesh, India. Our peer group deﬁnition takes the form of networks, whose structure allows us …

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Social exclusion and children: a European view for a US debate

Micklewright, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

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Concentration, agglomeration and the size of plants

Lafourcade, Miren; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the geographic distribution of manufacturing activities depends on the size of plants. Using Italian data, we find, as in Kim [Kim, S., 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic concentration of economic activities: the trends in U.S. regional manufacturing...

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Comparing willingness-to-pay and subjective well-being in the context of non-market goods

Dolan, Paul; Metcalf, Robert - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

In order to value non-market goods, economists estimate individuals’ willingness to pay (WTP) for these goods using revealed or stated preference methods. We compare these conventional approaches with subjective well-being (SWB), which is based on individuals’ ratings of their happiness or...

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Does competition improve public hospitals’ efficiency?: evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service

Cooper, Zack; Gibbons, Stephen; Jones, Simon; McGuire, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency of public hospitals. Our identification strategy takes advantage of the phased introduction of a recent set of...

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Efficient estimation of the semiparametric spatial autoregressive model

Robinson, Peter M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Efficient semiparametric and parametric estimates are developed for a spatial autoregressive model, containing nonstochastic explanatory variables and innovations suspected to be non-normal. The main stress is on the case of distribution of unknown, nonparametric, form, where series...

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Studentization in Edgworth expansions for estimates of semiparametric index models

Nishiyama, Y; Robinson, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

We establish valid theoretical and empirical Edgeworth expansions for density-weighted averaged derivative estimates of semiparametric index models.

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Refinements in maximum likelihood inference on spatial autocorrelation in panel data

Robinson, Peter; Rossi, Francesca - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

In a panel data model with fixed effects, possible cross-sectional dependence is investigated in a spatial autoregressive setting. An Edgeworth expansion is developed for the maximum likelihood estimate of the spatial correlation coefficient. The expansion is used to develop more accurate...

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Non-nested testing of spatial correlation

Delgado, Miguel A.; Robinson, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015

We develop non-nested tests in a general spatial, spatio-temporal or panel data context. The spatial aspect can be interpreted quite generally, in either a geographical sense, or employing notions of economic distance, or when parametric modelling arises in part from a common factor or other...

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Correlation testing in time series, spatial and cross-sectional data

Robinson, Peter - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

We provide a general class of tests for correlation in time series, spatial, spatiotemporal and cross-sectional data. We motivate our focus by reviewing how computational and theoretical difficulties of point estimation mount as one moves from regularly-spaced time series data, through forms of...

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