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A Rise By Any Other Name? Sensitivity of Growth Regressions to Data Source
Hanousek, Jan - 2008
Measured rates of growth in real per capita income differ drastically depending on the data source. This phenomenon occurs largely because data sets differ in whether and how they adjust for changes in relative prices across countries. Replication of several recent studies of growth determinants...
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient due to Grouping
Ourti, Tom Van; Clarke, Philip - 2008
We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … it reduces a considerable share of the bias due to grouping. …
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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient Due to Grouping : Revisiting First-Order Corrections
Van Ourti, Tom - 2008
We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order … reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining second order bias which is useful in empirical analyses. We analyze the … it reduces a considerable share of the bias due to grouping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722922
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Policy Experimentation, Political Competition, and Heterogeneous Beliefs
Millner, Antony - 2014
that all incumbents can find it optimal to ‘over experiment', relative to a counter-factual in which they are sure to be in …
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On the Political Economy of University Admission Standards
De Donder, Philippe - 2015
We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education is rationed by admission tests. Parents differ in income and in the ability of their unique child. They vote over the minimum ability level required to attend public...
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel; Alessie, Rob; Teulings, Coen N. - 2004
the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325186
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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel; Klasen, Stephan; Vreeland, James Raymond; … - 2021
As is now well documented, aid is given for both political as well as economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically-motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that...
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International Income Inequality : Measuring PPP Bias by Estimating Engel Curves for Food
Almås, Ingvild - 2010
Purchasing power adjusted incomes applied in cross-country comparisons are measured with bias. In this paper, we … estimate the purchasing power parity (PPP) bias in Penn World Table incomes and provide corrected incomes. The bias is … bias and the bias in consumer price index (CPI) numbers. The PPP bias and subsequent corrected incomes are measured by …
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How Productive is Public Capital? A Meta-Analysis
Bom, Pedro; Ligthart, Jenny E. - 2021
capital amounts to 0.08 after correcting for publication bias. A substantial part of the heterogeneity across studies is …
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