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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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The Role of the Log Transformation in Forecasting Economic Variables

Lütkepohl, Helmut - 2009

For forecasting and economic analysis many variables are used in logarithms (logs). In time series analysis this transformation is often considered to stabilize the variance of a series. We investigate under which conditions taking logs is beneficial for forecasting. Forecasts based on the...

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Trade, Integration, and Interregional Inequality

Hirte, Georg - 2014

We study the effect of international trade and freeness of trade (openness) on interregional inequality within countries. We estimate a model derived from a structural economic-geography approach in which interregional inequality depends on weighted trade shares and trade costs. In addition to...

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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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Does Income Inequality Lead to Terrorism?

Krieger, Tim - 2016

), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we …

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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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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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Laboratory Measure of Cheating Predicts Misbehavior at School

Cohn, Alain - 2017

Laboratory experiments provide insights into the drivers of cheating behaviour, but it is unclear to what extent cheating in the lab generalizes to the field. We conducted an experiment with middle and high school students to test whether a common laboratory measure of cheating predicts three...

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