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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups - An Agenda for New Research
Praag, Bernard M.S. van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010
well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/ak4r54626380774p/">Journal of Economic Inequality</A>. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256511
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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income
Francois, J.; Rojas-Romagosa, H. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …
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Health and Inequality
O'Donnell, Owen; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; Ourti, Tom Van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence supports a significant and substantial impact of ill … makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks early in life is a potentially important mechanism through … which health may generate, and possibly sustain, economic inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the …
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Commuters' Preferences for Fast and Reliable Travel
Koster, Paul; Koster, Hans - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
We employ a semi-parametric estimation approach to analyse observed and unobserved heterogeneity in the value of savings in travel time and schedule delay. Our econometric approach allows for the estimation of unobserved and observed heterogeneity in preferences in a flexible way, meaning that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271951
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Socio-economic interrelationships among regions can be measured in terms of economic flows, migration, or physical geographically-based measures, such as distance or length of shared areal unit boundaries. In general, proximity and openness tend to favour a similar economic performance among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255516
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On the Phase Dependence in Time-Varying Correlations Between Time-Series
Blasques, Francisco - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper proposes the use of a double correlation coefficient as a nonpara- metric measure of phase-dependence in time-varying correlations. An asymp- totically Gaussian test statistic for the null hypothesis of no phase-dependence is derived from the proposed measure. Finite-sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255536
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Kernel-Smoothed Conditional Quantiles of Correlated Bivariate Discrete Data
Gooijer, Jan G. de; Yuan, Ao - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
Often socio-economic variables are measured on a discrete scale or rounded to protect confidentiality. Nevertheless, when exploring the effect of a relevant covariate on the whole outcome distribution of a discrete response variable, virtually all common quantile regression methods require the...
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A K-sample Homogeneity Test based on the Quantification of the p-p Plot
Hinloopen, Jeroen; Wagenvoort, Rien; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We propose a quantification of the p-p plot that assigns equal weight to all distances between the respective distributions: the surface between the p-p plot and the diagonal. This surface is labelled the Harmonic Weighted Mass (HWM) index. We introduce the diagonal-deviation (d-d) plot that...
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Mean and Bold?
Witte, Kristof De; Dijkgraaf, Elbert - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007
See also the article 'Mean and bold: on separating merger economies from structural efficiency gains in the drinking water sector' 2010, <I>The Journal of the Operational Research Society</I>, 61, 222-34.<P> The Dutch drinking water sector experienced two drastic changes over the last 10 years. Firstly,...</p></i>
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MDL Mean Function Selection in Semiparametric Kernel Regression Models
Gooijer, Jan G. De; Yuan, Ao - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
We study the problem of selecting the optimal functional form among a set of non-nested nonlinear mean functions for a semiparametric kernel based regression model. To this end we consider Rissanen's minimum description length (MDL) principle. We prove the consistency of the proposed MDL...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255588