Showing 1 - 10 of 2,212
favourable to the market economy. Two parameters that govern this capacity to learn are social entropy and heritability. Social … entropy defines how predictable one's occupation is as a function of one's beliefs. Heritability is the weight of the family …'s beliefs in the determination of the priors of a new generation. Both heritability and social entropy reduce the bias and makes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902085
The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597779
market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences approach with entropy balancing to account …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414731
Plastic waste trade has grown considerably in the last decades and has caused severe environmental problems in … recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China’s experience of importing plastic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013173563
This paper contributes to the literature on hedonic models in two ways. First, it makes use of Queyranne's reformulation of a hedonic model in the discrete case as a network flow problem in order to provide a proof of existence and integrality of a hedonic equilibrium and efficient computational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010356985
the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy balancing, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010477532
Approaches to measuring health inequalities are often problematic in that they use methods that are inappropriate for categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate health inequality) and is based on a concept of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022686
teams where the Head Coach remains in post. We deal with the endogeneity of Coach departures using entropy balancing to … spells which ended with a Coach remaining in post. Consistent with theory, Head Coach quits have little or no impact on team …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431585
public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635035
This survey is devoted to the statistical analysis of duration models and point processes. The first section introduces specific concepts and definitions for single-spell duration models. Section two is devoted to the presentation of conditional duration models which incorporate the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635142