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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 perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the … the measurement error. The standard attenuation bias suggests that using these corrected data would lead to a higher …
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Consistent Estimation of Linear Panel Data Models with Measurement Error
Meijer, Erik - 2015
Measurement error causes a downward bias when estimating a panel data linear regression model. The panel data context …
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Instrumental Variables and Causal Mechanisms : Unpacking the Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters
Dippel, Christian - 2018
This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987–2009, we find that import exposure...
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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...
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Accuracy and Efficiency of Various GMM Inference Techniques in Dynamic Micro Panel Data Models
Kiviet, Jan F. - 2015
The performance in finite samples is examined of inference obtained by variants of the Arellano-Bond and the Blundell-Bond GMM estimation techniques for single dynamic panel data models with possibly endogenous regressors and cross-sectional heteroskedasticity. By simulation the effects are...
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Structural Reforms, Growth and Inequality : An Overview of Theory, Measurement and Evidence
Campos, Nauro F. - 2018
takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple …
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Eigenvalue Productivity : Measurement of Individual Contributions in Teams
Müller, Julia - 2017
While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity...
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics : Theory, Measurement and Empirics
Moreno-Cruz, Juan - 2014
incentives for economic activity to concentrate. Our theory provides a novel scaling law; a magnification effect; and reveals a …
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An Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - 2021
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...
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