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Measurement errors arising when using distances in microeconometric modelling and the individuals' position is geo-masked for confidentiality

Arbia, Giuseppa; Espa, Giuseppe; Giuliani, Diego - In: Econometrics : open access journal 3 (2015) 4, pp. 709-718

In many microeconometric models we use distances. For instance, in modelling the individual behavior in labor economics or in health studies, the distance from a relevant point of interest (such as a hospital or a workplace) is often used as a predictor in a regression framework. However, in...

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Direct and indirect effects under sample selection and outcome attrition

Huber, Martin; Solovyeva, Anna - In: Econometrics : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/44, pp. 1-25

This paper extends the evaluation of direct and indirect treatment effects, i.e., mediation analysis, to the case that outcomes are only partially observed due to sample selection or outcome attrition. We assume sequential conditional independence of the treatment and the mediator, i.e., the...

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Polarization and rising wage inequality : comparing the U.S. and Germany

Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas C.; Fitzenberger, Bernd - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-33

Since the late 1970s, wage inequality has increased strongly both in the U.S. and Germany but the trends have been … Germany. There is evidence for wage polarization in the U.S. in the 1990s, and the increase in wage inequality in Germany was … age, time, and cohort effects, we find a large role played by cohort effects in Germany, while we find only small cohort …

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