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Estimation of joint income-wealth poverty : a sensitivity analysis
Kuypers, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2016
Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social transfers. However, other financial resources such as savings and assets also affect living standards, often in very significant ways. Previous studies that have sought to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594143
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A correction for regression discontinuity designs with group-specific mismeasurement of the running variable
Bartalotti, Otávio; Brummet, Quentin; Dieterle, Steven - 2019
average treatment effect of interest will typically fail. While the form of this measurement error varies across applications …, in many cases the measurement error structure is heterogeneous across different groups of observations. We develop a … novel measurement error correction procedure capable of addressing heterogeneous mismeasurement structures by leveraging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019266
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Propensity score weighting with mismeasured covariates: an application to two financial literacy interventions
Dong, Hao; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2020
measurement error. Our proposed solution involves deconvolution kernel estimators of the propensity score and the regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316918
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Embrace the noise : it is OK to ignore measurement error in a covariate, sometimes
Dong, Hao; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2023
In linear regression models, measurement error in a covariate causes Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) to be biased and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014388449
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An innovation index based on knowledge capital investment : definition and results for the UK market sector
Clayton, Tony; Borgo, Mariela Dal; Haskel, Jonathan - 2009
We (a) propose an implementable innovation index, (b) relate it to existing innovation definitions and (c) show whole-economy and industry-specific results for the UK market sector, 2000-2005. Our innovation measure starts by observing that we could get more GDP without innovation by simply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003811075
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Beyond GDP and back : what is the value-added by additional components of welfare measurement?
New, Sonja C. de; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2011
. -- Stiglitz Commission ; Stiglitz Report ; Beyond GDP ; welfare measurement ; life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009125637
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Competitiveness at the country-sector level : new measures based on global value chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853655
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Measuring the shadow economy : endogenous switching regression with unobserved separation
Lichard, Tomáš; Hanousek, Jan; Filer, Randall Keith - 2012
We develop an estimator of unreported income, perhaps due to tax evasion, that does not depend on as strict identifying assumptions as previous estimators based on microeconomic data. The standard identifying assumption that the self-employed underreport income whereas wage and salary workers do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009629667
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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union
Dreger, Christian (contributor); Erber, Georg (contributor);  … - 2009
The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793935
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Vulnerability to poverty : Tajikistan during and after the global financial crisis
Gang, Ira N.; Gatskova, Kseniia; Landon-Lane, John S.; … - 2016
We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by international migration and remittances, using a formal, practical, and easily decomposable vulnerability measure. Our strategy is to estimate a Markov transition probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502647