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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition

Mocan, Naci H. - 2014

We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...

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Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap : A Nonparametric Approach

Barsky, Robert; Bound, John; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2021

This paper notes a potential problem in the method of Blinder and Oaxaca the most popular method in the literature for decomposing the mean difference between groups of a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of some explanatory variables and differences...

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Identification and Estimation of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Additivity

Imbens, Guido W.; Newey, Whitney K. - 2021

This paper investigates identification and inference in a nonparametric structural model with instrumental variables and non-additive errors. We allow for non-additive errors because the unobserved heterogeneity in marginal returns that often motivates concerns about endogeneity of choices...

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Common Sense and Simplicity in Empirical Industrial Organization

Pakes, Ariel - 2021

Conference in Boston, April 2003. I argue that new econometric tools have facilitated the estimation of models with realistic … environmental changes. The paper provides examples illustrating the value of simulation for the estimation of demand systems and of … semiparametrics for the estimation of entry models …

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Nonlinear decomposition analysis of risk aversion and stock-holding behaviour of US households

Kabir, M. Humayun; Shakur, Shamim - In: Applied financial economics 24 (2014) 7/9, pp. 495-503

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Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth

Dunn, Abe - 2017

Medical-care expenditures have been rising rapidly, accounting for over 17 percent of GDP in 2012. In this study, we assess the sources of the rising medical-care expenditures in the commercial sector. We employ a novel framework for decomposing expenditure growth into four components at the...

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Regional Distribution and Dynamics of Human Capital in China 1985-2014 : Education, Urbanization, and Aging of the Population

Li, Haizheng - 2016

Given the challenges in quantifying the role of human capital on economic development, measuring human capital itself becomes an important issue. It is desirable to have a comprehensive human capital measure that goes beyond the traditional measures based on education attainment, yet is...

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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality

Burstein, Ariel T. - 2015

We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...

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Beating the random walk : a performance assessment of long-term interest rate forecasts

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Jansen, Pieter W. - In: Applied financial economics 23 (2013) 7/9, pp. 749-765

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Productivity Shocks and Aggregate Fluctuations in an Estimated Endogenous Growth Model with Human Capital

Malley, Jim - 2011

Employing an endogenous growth model with human capital, this paper explores how productivity shocks in the goods and human capital producing sectors contribute to explaining aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment and hours. Given the importance of accounting for both the...

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