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The Devil is in the Tails : Regression Discontinuity Design with Measurement Error in the Assignment Variable

Pei, Zhuan - 2016

Identification in a regression discontinuity (RD) design hinges on the discontinuity in the probability of treatment when a covariate (assignment variable) exceeds a known threshold. If the assignment variable is measured with error, however, the discontinuity in the first stage relationship...

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The Price of Capital, Factor Substitutability, and Corporate Profits

Hergovich, Philipp - 2018

The capital-to-labor ratio has steadily risen in the U.S. and elsewhere during the post-WWII period. Since the 1970s this rise has been accompanied by a rise in the level and variability of corporate profits whereas the labor share of income has declined. In this paper we ask whether these...

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How to Think About Time-Use Data : What Inferences Can We Make About Long- and Short-Run Time Use from Time Diaries?

Frazis, Harley - 2010

Time-use researchers are typically interested in the time use of individuals, but time use data are samples of person-days. Given day-to-day variation in how people spend their time, this distinction is analytically important. We examine the conditions necessary to make inferences about the time...

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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2020

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

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Estimating Poverty for Refugee Populations : Can Cross-Survey Imputation Methods Substitute for Data Scarcity?

Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019

The increasing growth of forced displacement worldwide has led to the stronger interest of various stakeholders in measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper...

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Well-Being Inequality and Reference Groups : An Agenda for New Research

van Praag, B.M.S. - 2010

In this paper it is argued that subjective well-being of the individual depends on two types of variables. The first type consists of characteristics of the individual himself, such as age, health, income, etc. The second type of variables consists of the characteristics of the individuals...

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Fun with Matched Firm-Employee Data : Progress and Road Maps

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007

With the beginnings of a worldwide burgeoning development of matched firm-employee data, it is worthwhile to examine the possibilities for using these data. This essay discusses a variety of areas in which some progress has been made and presents ideas for future research in a number of others,...

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A Martingale Representation for Matching Estimators

Abadie, Alberto - 2009

matching estimators. As an illustration of the applicability of the theory, we derive the asymptotic distribution of a matching …Matching estimators are widely used in statistical data analysis. However, the distribution of matching estimators has … matching estimators. This representation allows the use of martingale limit theorems to derive the asymptotic distribution of …

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A Statistical Programme Assignment Model

Staghoej, Jonas; Svarer, Michael; Rosholm, Michael - 2021

When treatment effects of active labour market programmes are heterogeneous in an observable way across the population, the allocation of the unemployed into different programmes becomes a particularly important issue. In this paper, we present a statistical model designed to improve the present...

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Wage Decompositions Using Panel Data Sample Selection Correction

Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 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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