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The in-hospital mortality rates of slaves and freemen : evidence from Touro infirmary, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1855 - 1860

Pritchett, Jonathan B. (contributor); … - 2008

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. -- Slavery ; hospital ; Oaxaca-type decomposition ; New Orleans ; Touro …

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Reference-dependent preferences and loss aversion : a discrete choice experiment in the health-care sector

Neumann, Einat (contributor); Neuman, Shoshana (contributor) - 2007

A Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) in the health-care sector is used to test the loss aversion theory that is derived … paper is the first to use a DCE to test the loss aversion theory. A DCE appears to be a highly suitable tool for this … with non-tangible attributes. A health-care event is used for empirical illustration: The loss aversion theory is tested …

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Testing for poverty dominance : an application to Canada

Chen, Wen-hao (contributor); Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor) - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Managerial talent, motivation, and self-selection into public management

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert A. J. - 2010

The quality of public management is a recurrent concern in many countries. Calls to attract the economy’s best and brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial positions in the public and private sector, using a model of a perfectly...

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Robust inequality comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two...

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Simplified implementation of the Heckman estimator of the dynamic probit model and a comparison with alternative estimators

Arulampalam, Wiji (contributor); … - 2007

This paper presents a convenient shortcut method for implementing the Heckman estimator of the dynamic random effects probit model using standard software. It then compares the three estimators proposed by Heckman, Orme and Wooldridge based on three alternative approximations, first in an...

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The distinction between dictatorial and incentive policy interventions and its implication for IV estimation

Belzil, Christian; Hansen, Jörgen - 2010

We investigate if, and under which conditions, the distinction between dictatorial and incentive-based policy interventions affects the capacity of Instrument Variable (IV) methods to estimate the relevant treatment effect parameter of an outcome equation. The analysis is set in a non-trivial...

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Robust standard errors in transformed likelihood estimation of dynamic panel data models

Hayakawa, Kazuhiko; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper extends the transformed maximum likelihood approach for estimation of dynamic panel data models by Hsiao, Pesaran, and Tahmiscioglu (2002) to the case where the errors are crosssectionally heteroskedastic. This extension is not trivial due to the incidental parameters problem that...

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Welfare analysis in a Schumpeterian growth model with capital

Hagedorn, Marcus; Kaul, Ashok; Reinthaler, Volker - 2001

optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find …

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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...

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