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The reliability of students' earnings expectations
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Nilsson, Jan Olof William - 2017
study, we focus on the reliability of students’ earnings expectations. To what extent is observed log earnings expectations … affected by random measurement error (noise)? A test-retest method is applied and reliability is found to be fairly low; about … analysis show how these measures of reliability can be adjusted to become more suitable to other studies, where different …
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Accounting for individual-specific reliability of self-assessed measures of economic preferences and personality traits
Dohmen, Thomas; Jagelka, Tomáš - 2023
measurement error. This paper presents the first attempt at measuring both revealed and self-reported reliability of individuals … cross-sectional data. We demonstrate that it predicts revealed individual reliability over and above all measured … characterises, survey conditions, and experimental treatments. We show how our simple self-reported reliability measure can be used …
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Lost in transmission
Graeber, Thomas Wilhelm; Noy, Shakked; Roth, Christopher - 2024
transmitter incentive schemes, information about the reliability of a forecast is lost in transmission more than twice as much as …
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Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment
Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor);  … - 2007
In many environments, tournaments can elicit more effort from workers, except perhaps when workers can sabotage each other. Because it is hard to separate effort, ability and output in many real workplace settings, the empirical evidence on the incentive effect of tournaments is thin. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635203
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Modeling immigrants' language skills
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2007
One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635218
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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births
Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor);  … - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635269
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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida
Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635285
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What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?
Blau, David (contributor); Goodstein, Ryan (contributor) - 2007
After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003637447
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Effects of low-skilled immigration on U.S. natives : evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. (contributor); Yuksel, Mutlu (contributor) - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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The prevalence and effects of occupational licensing
Kleiner, Morris M. (contributor);  … - 2008
This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003754928