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Wage decompositions using panel data sample selection correction
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Choe, Chung - 2016
This paper analyzes wage decomposition methodology in the context of panel data sample selection embedded in a correlated random effects setting. Identification issues unique to panel data are examined for their implications for wage decompositions. As an empirical example, we apply our...
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Housing search frictions : evidence from detailed search data and a field experiment
Bergman, Peter; Chan, Eric; Kapor, Adam - 2020
website of housing listings for families with housing vouchers. We find that this information causes families to choose … estimate a dynamic model of families' search for housing on and off the website, as well as their location decisions. The model … families' prior beliefs about school quality and each group's apparent valuation of school quality. Families tend to …
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Equal price for equal place? : demand-driven racial discrimination in the housing market
Lepinteur, Anthony; Menta, Giorgia; Waltl, Sofie - 2023
Participants to an online study in Luxembourg are presented with fictitious real-estate advertisements and tasked to make an offer for each of them. A random subset is also shown sellers' names that are strongly framed to signal their origins. Our randomised procedure allows us to conclude that,...
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Updates on returns to education in India: analysis using PLFS 2018-19 data
Chen, Jie; Kanjilal-Bhaduri, Sanghamitra; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
In this paper, we report returns to education in India using unit level data from the nationwide Periodic Labour Force Survey for 2018-19. OLS estimates from the classical Mincerian equation are presented. Various econometric techniques (e.g., conventional IV and heteroskedasticity-based IV...
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Employment transitions of women in India : a panel analysis
Sarkar, Sudipa; Sahoo, Soham; Klasen, Stephan - 2017
This study analyses employment transitions of working-age women in India. The puzzling issue of low labour force participation despite substantial economic growth, strong fertility decline and expanding female education in India has been studied in the recent literature. However, no study so far...
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Nonseparable sample selection models with censored selection rules : an application to wage decompositions
Fernández-Val, Iván; Vuuren, Aico van; Vella, Francis - 2018
strategies for estimation. We also provide the associated asymptotic theory. These strategies are illustrated in an empirical …We consider identification and estimation of nonseparable sample selection models with censored selection rules. We … conditions under which these objects are appropriate for the total population. We also present results regarding the estimation …
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What happens when econometrics and psychometrics collide? : an example using the PISA data
Jerrim, John Peter; Lopez-Agudo, Luis Alejandro; … - 2017
International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning these datasets are misunderstood by applied researchers, who sometimes fail to take their complex...
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Dealing with imperfect randomization : inference for the Highscope Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo; Shaikh, Azeem M. - 2023
This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
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Behind the Great Recession : job search and housing decisions
Rendón, Sílvio; Quella, Núria - 2013
job search with liquid wealth accumulation and consumption of housing that can be rented, bought on credit, or sold. In … using NLSY data from 1978 until 2005. We find that more relaxed housing lending conditions, particularly lower downpayment …
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The effect of school construction on test scores, school enrollment, and home prices
Neilson, Christopher; Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the effect of school construction projects on home prices, academic achievement, and public school enrollment. Taking advantage of the staggered implementation of a comprehensive school construction project in a poor urban district, we find that, by six years...
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