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Beauty is the Promise of Happiness?
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2011
We measure the impact of individuals' looks on their life satisfaction or happiness. Using five data sets from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true effects of beauty on happiness. Personal beauty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127722
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A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation : A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension
Li, Jinjing - 2011
the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity as every agent is sharing the same parameters of the utility … capturing individual heterogeneity. First, a "fixed effect vector decomposition" model, which allows the individual specific … random coefficient model, which incorporates a higher degree of individual heterogeneity by specifying individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118517
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Targeting Non-Cognitive Skills to Improve Cognitive Outcomes : Evidence from a Remedial Education Intervention
Holmlund, Helena - 2009
A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of policies that specifically target students' non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155472
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Evaluation of a Tax Reform : A Model with Measurement Error
Euwals, Rob - 2007
Parts of the Dutch tax reform 2001 are directed towards fiscal partners in a household and aim at lowering the marginal tax burden of the partner with the lowest (potential) labour income. An important goal of the reform is to increase the employment rate of these partners, which are in majority...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778246
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Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap : An Identification Problem
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006
We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent literature showing that a normalized regression equation can be used to resolve the identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779046
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Poverty's Deconstruction : Beyond the Visible
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2017
In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. Yet in more than 15 published papers Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its...
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Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models
Powers, Daniel A. - 2009
We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is decomposed into components attributable to group differences in characteristics and group differences in effects. The baseline hazard is specified using a piecewise constant...
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Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Lee, David - 2019
Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary "decomposition" approach that compares the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870346
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A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis
Barr, Tavis - 2014
Social scientists are often interested in assessing relative changes between two groups over time, for example, the convergence of black-white wages from 1940 to 1990. In such situations, we need a control group for both treatment groups to remove biases resulting from time trends and unobserved...
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A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates : Algorithm and Example
Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2021
This paper decomposes differences in poverty incidence (head count ratio) using estimates from a regression equation, synthesizing the approaches proposed in World Bank (2003) and Yun (2004). A significance test is developed for characteristics and coefficients effects when decomposing...
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