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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil : A Quantile Panel Data Approach

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti - 2008

procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly …We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric … unobservables are invalid in the simple quantile regression framework. Using the quantile panel data procedure in Chen and Khan …

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Global Trends in Income Inequality and Income Dynamics : New Insights from GRID

Guvenen, Fatih; Pistaferri, Luigi; Violante, Giovanni L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully exploits the longitudinal dimension of the underlying datasets …

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Using Massive Online Choice Experiments to Measure Changes in Well-being

Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2018

GDP and derived metrics (e.g., productivity) have been central to understanding economic progress and well-being. In principle, the change in consumer surplus (compensating expenditure) provides a superior, and more direct, measure of the change in well-being, especially for digital goods, but...

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Do Americans Want to Tax Capital? Evidence from Online Surveys

Fisman, Raymond - 2017

A vast theoretical literature in public finance has studied the question of the desirability of capital taxation. Distinct from questions of the optimality of taxing wealth is whether it is politically feasible. We provide, to our knowledge, the first investigation of individuals' preferences...

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COVID-19 Disruptions Disproportionately Affect Female Academics

Deryugina, Tatyana; Shurchkov, Olga; Stearns, Jenna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent countermeasures, such as school closures, the shift to working from home, and social distancing are disrupting economic activity around the world. As with other major economic shocks, there are winners and losers, leading to increased...

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When Is Discrimination Unfair?

Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Osaki, Trevor T. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using a vignette-based survey experiment on Amazon's Mechanical Turk, we measure how people's assessments of the fairness of race-based hiring decisions vary with the motivation and circumstances surrounding the discriminatory act and the races of the parties involved. Regardless of their...

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How Elastic Are Preferences for Redistribution? Evidence from Randomized Survey Experiments

Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2013

We develop online survey experiments to analyze how information about inequality and taxes affects preferences for redistribution. Approximately 4,000 respondents were randomized into treatments providing interactive, customized information on U.S. income inequality, the link between top income...

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What Do People Want?

Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cooper, Kristen B; Heffetz, Ori; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We elicited over a million stated preference choices over 126 dimensions or "aspects" of well-being from a sample of 3,358 respondents on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Our surveys also collected self-reported well-being (SWB) questions about respondents' current levels of the aspects of...

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Methodological Issues in Analyzing Market Dynamics

Pakes, Ariel - 2016

This paper investigates progress in the development of models capable of empirically analyzing the evolution of industries. It starts with a parallel between the development of empirical frameworks for static and dynamic analysis of industries: both adapted their frameworks from models taken...

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Fisher-Schultz Lecture : Linear Estimation of Structural and Causal Effects for Nonseparable Panel Data

Chernozhukov, Victor; Deaner, Ben; Gao, Ying; Hausman, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

panel data. These models incorporate unobserved, time-varying, individual heterogeneity, which may be correlated with the …

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