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Effects of attrition and non-response in the health and retirement study

Kapteyn, Arie; Michaud, Pierre-Carl; Smith, James P.; … - 2006

We study the effect of attrition and other forms of non-response on the representativity over time of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) sample born 1931-1941; the sample was initially drawn in 1992. Although some baseline characteristics of respondents do appear correlated with non-response over...

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Does family background affect earnings through education? : a generalised approach to mediation analysis

Mendolia, Silvia; Siminski, Peter - 2016

We seek to quantify the role of education as a mechanism through which family background affects earnings. To this end, we propose a generalisation of statistical 'mediation analysis'. In our approach, the treatment and mediator can be multidimensional. This allows us to directly and flexibly...

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The many faces of human sociality : uncovering the distribution and stability of social preferences

Bruhin, Adrian; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2018

There is vast heterogeneity in the human willingness to weigh others' interests in decision making. This heterogeneity concerns the motivational intricacies as well as the strength of other-regarding behaviors, and raises the question how one can parsimoniously model and characterize...

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Measuring socially appropriate social preferences

Carpenter, Jeffrey P.; Robbett, Andrea - 2022

We extend the literature structurally estimating social preferences by accounting for the desire to adhere to social norms. Our representative agent is strongly motivated by norms and failing to account for this causes us to overestimate how much agents care about helping those who are worse...

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The fundamental properties, stability and predictive power of distributional preferences

Fehr, Ernst; Epper, Thomas; Senn, Julien - 2023

Parsimony is a desirable feature of economic models but almost all human behaviors are characterized by vast individual variation that appears to defy parsimony. How much parsimony do we need to give up to capture the fundamental aspects of a population's distributional preferences and to...

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Testing dependence among serially correlated multi-category variables

Pesaran, M. Hashem (contributor); … - 2006

The contingency table literature on tests for dependence among discrete multi-category variables is extensive. Existing tests assume, however, that draws are independent, and there are no tests that account for serial dependencies -- a problem that is particularly important in economics and...

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Cumulation of cross-section surveys: evaluation of alternative concepts for the cumulated Continuous Household Budget Surveys (LWR) 1999 until 2003 compared to the Sample Survey of...

Merz, Joachim; Stolze, Henning - 2010

-SILC approaches, the cumulation of cross-section surveys to an integrated information system is recently discussed and required. In … samples to allow in depth analyses. This study contributes by a general conceptual foundation of the cumulation of cross …-sections and an application which in particular evaluates the new cumulation concept with actual large official samples: the cross …

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Statistical analysis of landmine fatalities in Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas; Khayyat, Nabaz T. - 2011

This study analyzes mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO) victim data in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq during the period of the 1960s to 2005. In addition to descriptive analysis of the data, we use regression analysis to identify the determinants of the probability of getting killed by a mine or...

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Disagreement in partners' reports of financial difficulty

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Gong, Xiaodong; … - 2005

We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results...

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Surveying migrant households : a comparison of census-based, snowball, and intercept point surveys/ David J. McKenzie; Johan Mistiaen

McKenzie, David J. (contributor); … - 2007

Few representative surveys of households of migrants exist, limiting our ability to study the effects of international migration on sending families. We report the results of an experiment designed to compare the performance of three alternative survey methods in collecting data from...

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