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O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries

Altmejd, Adam - 2020

Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal …

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Education policy and equality of opportunity

Woessmann, Ludger; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Schuetz, Gabriela - 2005

We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family …. Using cross-country variations in education policies and their interaction with family background at the student level, we …

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Nineteenth century stature and family size: Binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented … here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of …

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Exponent of Cross-Sectional Dependence for Residuals

Bailey, Natalia - 2018

In this paper we focus on estimating the degree of cross-sectional dependence in the error terms of a classical panel data regression model. For this purpose we propose an estimator of the exponent of cross-sectional dependence denoted by α; which is based on the number of non-zero pair-wise...

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Harding, Matthew C. - 2018

This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a heterogeneous panel model with lagged dependent variables and interactive effects. The paper adopts the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) approach proposed by Pesaran (2006) and Chudik and Pesaran (2015) and demonstrates that the extension...

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Determinants of Stock Market Correlation. Accounting for Model Uncertainty and Reverse Causality in a Large Panel Setting

Afonso, António; Beck, Krzysztof; Jackson, Karen - 2022

current correlation being the best single predictor of the future stock market correlation (2) positive impact of the market …

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Are Characteristics Covariances or Characteristics?

Hornuf, Lars - 2020

In this article, we shed more light on the covariances versus characteristics debate by investigating the explanatory power of the instrumented principal component analysis (IPCA), recently proposed by Kelly et al. (2019). They conclude that characteristics are covariances because there is no...

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