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Intangible Capital and Growth in Advanced Economies : Measurement Methods and Comparative Results
Corrado, Carol A. - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103469
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On Educational Performance Measures
Muriel, Alastair - 2011
Quantitative school performance measures (QPMs) are playing an ever larger role in education systems on both sides of the Atlantic. In this paper we outline the rationale for the use of such measures in education, review the literature relating to several important problems associated with their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121550
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Can Value-Added Measures of Teacher Performance Be Trusted?
Guarino, Cassandra M. - 2012
We investigate whether commonly used value-added estimation strategies can produce accurate estimates of teacher effects. We estimate teacher effects in simulated student achievement data sets that mimic plausible types of student grouping and teacher assignment scenarios. No one method...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104960
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Star Wars : The Empirics Strike Back
Brodeur, Abel - 2013
Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084682
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Trends in Economic Research : An International Perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010
Given the recent efforts in several countries to reorganize the research institutional setting to improve research productivity, our analysis addresses the following questions: To which extent has the recent awareness over international quality standards in economics around the world been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147133
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy andAgency Theory: An Experimental Study
Sloof, Randolph; Praag, Mirjam van - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within therealm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme,the agent's optimal effort is unrelated to the amount of noise in the performance measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861675
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Does it Matter Who Responded to the Survey? Trends in the U.S. Gender Earnings Gap Revisited
Lee, Jungmin - 2011
their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129914
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Beyond GDP and Back : What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
de New (née Kassenboehmer), Sonja C. - 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130791
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130794
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Detecting Discrimination in Audit and Correspondence Studies
Neumark, David - 2010
Audit studies testing for discrimination have been criticized because applicants from different groups may not appear identical to employers. Correspondence studies address this criticism by using fictitious paper applicants whose qualifications can be made identical across groups. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136716