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Economic crises and mortality among the elderly: evidence from two Russian crises
Khvan, Margarita; Smorodenkova, Elizaveta; Jakovlev, Evgenij - 2020
We assess the short-term effects of the two recent economic crises, the Great Recession and the collapse of the USSR, on the elderly mortality in Russia. According to our study, crises have led to an increase in mortality with quantitatively similar elasticities of death with respect to GDP fall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257425
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Bayesian panel quantile regression for binary outcomes with correlated random effects : an application on crime recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges; Lacroix, Guy; Rahman, Mohammad Arshad - 2020
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence … propose two Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms but prefer the algorithm that exploits the blocking procedure to …, relative risk and odds ratio. The performance of our preferred algorithm is demonstrated in multiple simulation studies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012163022
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"Every catholic child in a catholic school" : historical resistance to state schooling, contemporary private competition, and student achievement across countries
West, Martin R. (contributor); Woessmann, Ludger (contributor) - 2008
Nineteenth-Century Catholic doctrine strongly opposed state schooling. We show that countries with larger shares of Catholics in 1900 (but without a Catholic state religion) tend to have larger shares of privately operated schools even today. We use this historical pattern as a natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777800
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Mobility into and out of poverty in Europe in the 1990s and the pre-crisis period : the role of income, demographic and labour market events
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016
We analyze poverty dynamics in Europe for the periods 1994‐2001 and 2005‐2008 using, respectively, the data of the ECHP and the EU‐SILC. We focus on poverty profiles depicting poverty duration, recurrence and persistence and, then, on the trigger events (income, demographic, labour market)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452694
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Unintended effects of the flexible grading policy
Ozsoy, Mehlika; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2023
Using an unbalanced panel of 23,007 academic records spanning from Spring 2019 to Spring 2022 representing one fourth of Queens College student population; and estimating event study analyses with individual fixed effects to control for time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity, we find unintended...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500574
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Setting priorities in school choice enrollment systems : who benefits from placement algorithm preferences?
Valant, Jon; Walker, Brigham - 2024
schools. This study explores whether the New Orleans placement algorithm favored students of certain races or socioeconomic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464130
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Measuring bias in job recommender systems : auditing the algorithms
Zhang, Shuo; Kuhn, Peter Joseph - 2024
We audit the job recommender algorithms used by four Chinese job boards by creating fictitious applicant profiles that differ only in their gender. Jobs recommended uniquely to the male and female profiles in a pair differ modestly in their observed characteristics, with female jobs advertising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015050843
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Stochastic complementarity
Manzini, Paola; Mariotti, Marco; Ülkü, Levent - 2018
The Hicksian definition of complementarity and substitutability may not apply in contexts in which agents are not utility maximisers or where price or income variations, whether implicit or explicit, are not available. We look for tools to identify complementarity and substitutability satisfying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795820
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An introduction to nonparametric regression for labor economists
Henderson, Daniel J.; Souto, Anne-Charlotte - 2018
In this article we overview nonparametric (spline and kernel) regression methods and illustrate how they may be used in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011946249
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(Frisch-Waugh-Lovell)' on the estimation of regression models by row
Clarke, Damian; Paris Torres, Nicolás; … - 2023
We demonstrate that regression models can be estimated by working independently in a row-wise fashion. We document a … understanding the mechanics of many common regression models. These procedures can be used to speed up the computation of estimates … computed via OLS, IV, Ridge regression, LASSO, Elastic Net, and Non-linear models including probit and logit, with all common …
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