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Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas; Wu, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Large literatures have analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes and access to the safety net. For such analyses that rely on survey data, it is crucial that survey accuracy does not vary by race and ethnicity. Otherwise, the observed disparities may be confounded by...

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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries

McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017

properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …

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Combining panel data sets with attrition and refreshment samples

Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 1998

With panel data important issues can be resolved that can not beaddressed with cross--sectional data. A major drawback is that paneldata suffer from more severe missing data problems. Adding a sampleconsisting of new units randomly drawn from the original populationas replacements for units who...

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Measuring and explaining the limited take-up of the housing benefit in the Netherlands

Rouwendal, Jan - 2002 - This version: March 14, 2002

It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and othermeans tested benefits is substantially below 100%. In order to measure non-take up oneusually has to simulate entitlement to the benefits. In this paper we take a closer look atthe quality of the simulation. We find...

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Looming Large or Seeming Small? Attitudes Towards Losses in a Representative Sample

Chapman, Jonathan; Snowberg, Erik; Wang, Stephanie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We measure individual-level loss aversion using three incentivized, representative surveys of the U.S. population (combined N=3,000). We find that around 50% of the U.S. population is loss tolerant, with many participants accepting negative-expected-value gambles. This is counter to earlier...

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Opening the Black Box : Task and Skill Mix and Productivity Dispersion

Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity measurement. Moreover, the theoretical...

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How Does Data Access Shape Science? Evidence from the Impact of U.S. Census's Research Data Centers on Economics Research

Nagaraj, Abhishek; Tranchero, Matteo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This study examines the impact of access to confidential administrative data on the rate, direction, and policy relevance of economics research. To study this question, we exploit the progressive geographic expansion of the U.S. Census Bureau's Federal Statistical Research Data Centers (FSRDCs)....

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Regulatory Arbitrage or Random Errors? Implications of Race Prediction Algorithms in Fair Lending Analysis

Greenwald, Daniel; Howell, Sabrina T.; Li, Cangyuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

When race is not directly observed, regulators and analysts commonly predict it using algorithms based on last name and address. In small business lending--where regulators assess fair lending law compliance using the Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) algorithm--we document large...

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Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data : The Census Tree Project

Buckles, Kasey S.; Haws, Adrian; Price, Joseph; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The Census Tree is the largest-ever database of record links among the historical U.S. censuses, with over 700 million links for people living in the United States between 1850 and 1940. These high-quality links allow researchers in the social sciences and other disciplines to construct a...

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Real-Time Poverty, Material Well-Being, and the Child Tax Credit

Han, Jeehoon; Meyer, Bruce D.; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic two new timely poverty measures have been developed to monitor fast-changing economic conditions for the most deprived. The Han et al. near real-time poverty measure uses responses to a global income question on the Monthly Current Population Survey (CPS)...

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