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The Exporter Productivity Premium Along the Productivity Distribution : First Evidence from a Quantile Regression Approach for Fixed Effects Panel Data Models
Powell, David - 2010
An emerging literature on international activities of heterogeneous firms documents that exporting firms are more productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large number of empirical studies after controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139057
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How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?
Bjerk, David - 2009
Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some treatment on individual criminality. For example, two recent relatively prominent papers have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155604
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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects : An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada
Bresson, Georges - 2020
This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence …
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Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt : Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
Tansel, Aysit - 2018
1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage … and unobservable characteristics of the individuals using the panel feature of the data with a fixed effects model. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908874
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Over-Education and Immigrant Earnings : A Penalized Quantile Panel Regression Analysis
Maani, Sholeh A.; Wen, Le - 2021
considered the labour market outcomes of over-education for immigrants. Using longitudinal data and penalized quantile panel …
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Bias Corrections for Two-Step Fixed Effects Panel Data Estimators
Fernández‐Val, Iván; Vella, Francis - 2021
This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …
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A Theory of Social Impact Bonds
Tortorice, Daniel L. - 2020
Social impact bonds (SIBs) are an innovative financing mechanism for public goods. In a SIB, an investor provides capital to a service provider for a social intervention. The investor receives a return based on the outcome of the intervention relative to a predetermined benchmark. We describe...
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Policy Relevant Heterogeneity in the Value of Statistical Life : New Evidence from Panel Data Quantile Regressions
Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2012
We examine differences in the value of statistical life (VSL) across potential wage levels in panel data using quantile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116688
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Joining Panel Data with Cross-Sections for Efficiency Gains : An Application to a Consumption Equation For Nicaragua
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2009
estimation efficiency while properly tackling the potential bias due to unobserved individual characteristics. We propose an … the bias in the unpaired sample. In a second step, corrected unpaired observations are used jointly with panel data. This … reduces the standard errors of the estimation coefficients and might increase their significance as well, otherwise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766730
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Cyclical and Market Determinants of Involuntary Part-Time Employment
Valletta, Robert G. - 2016
conduct regression analyses using state-level panel and individual data for the years 2003-2014. The results show that the …
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