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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

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 …

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Inequality and the GB2 income distribution

Jenkins, Stephen (contributor) - 2007

The generalized entropy class of inequality indices is derived for Generalized Beta of the Second Kind (GB2) income …

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Entropy methods for identifying hedonic models

Dupuy, Arnaud; Galichon, Alfred; Henry, Marc - 2014

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...

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The earnings returns to graduating with honors : evidence from law graduates

Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Mathias; Siedler, Thomas - 2015

the context of German law graduates. Using a difference-in-differences research design combined with entropy balancing, we …

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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?

Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2019

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...

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Special ones? : the effect of Head Coaches on football team performance

Bryson, Alex; Buraimo, Babatunde; Farnell, Alex; … - 2021

teams where the Head Coach remains in post. We deal with the endogeneity of Coach departures using entropy balancing to …

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"The double dividend of training" : labor market effects of work-related continuous education in Switzerland

Denzler, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2022

market outcomes, we apply a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences approach with entropy balancing to account …

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