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A theory of socioeconomic disparities in health over the life cycle

Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2010

Understanding of the substantial disparity in health between low and high socioeconomic status (SES) groups is hampered by the lack of a suffciently comprehensive theoretical framework to interpret empirical facts and to predict yet untested relations. We present a life-cycle model that...

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The right man for the job

Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, Pieter - 2000

This paper describes a search model with a continuum of worker and job types, free entry and transferable utility. We apply a second-order Taylor expansion to characterize the equilibrium, derive the "cost of search" and show that it is decreasing in the substitutability of worker types. This...

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Statistics and common sense

Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Magnus, Jan R.; Yoo, Donghoon - 2021

Common sense is a dynamic concept and it is natural that our (statistical) common sense lags behind the development of statistical science. What is not so easy to understand is why common sense lags behind as much as it does. We conduct a survey among Japanese students and try to understand why...

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The Bayesian score statistic

Kleibergen, Frank; Kleijn, Richard; Paap, Richard - 2000

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Three-sided testing to establish practical significance : a tutorial

Isager, Peder; Fitzgerald, Jack - 2024

Researchers may want to know whether an observed statistical relationship is either meaningfully negative, meaningfully positive, or small enough to be considered practically equivalent to zero. Such a question can not be addressed with standard null hypothesis significance testing, nor with...

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Statistical early warning models with applications

Harlaar, Lucas P.; Commandeur, Jacques Jean François; … - 2024

of final and official statistics. We propose the use of a multivariate structural time series model which includes common … trends and seasonal components to combine official statistics series with related auxiliary series. In this way, more precise … and more timely nowcasts and forecasts of the official statistics can be obtained by exploiting the higher frequency and …

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