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Robust Dynamic Space-Time Panel Data Models Using?-Contamination : an Application to Crop Yields and Climate Change
Baltagi, Badi H.; Bresson, Georges; Chaturvedi, Anoop; … - 2023
-time models. We investigate the robustness of Bayesian panel data models to possible misspecification of the prior distribution … a general â toolboxâ for a wide range of specifications which includes the dynamic space- time panel model with random … effects, with cross-correlated effects à la Chamberlain, for the Hausman-Taylor world and for dynamic panel data models with …
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Improving Access to Savings Through Mobile Money : Experimental Evidence from African Smallholder Farmers
Batista, Catia - 2019
Investment in improved agricultural inputs is infrequent for smallholder farmers in Africa. One barrier may be limited … sample of smallholder farmers in rural Mozambique. This sample included a set of primary farmers and their closest farming … fertilizer salience in the remunerated savings treatment may have been important to focus farmers' (limited) attention on saving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857838
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Incentivizing Learning-by-Doing : The Role of Compensation Schemes
Graff Zivin, Joshua - 2019
In this paper, we examine the impact of pay-for-performance incentives on learning-by-doing. We exploit personnel data on fruit pickers paid under two distinct compensation contracts: a standard piece rate plan and a piece rate plan with an extra one-time bonus tied to output. Under the bonus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870161
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Geographical Origins and Economic Consequences of Language Structures
Galor, Oded - 2016
This research explores the economic causes and consequences of language structures. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically that variations in pre-industrial geographical characteristics that were conducive to higher return to agricultural investment, larger gender gap in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978167
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046684
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128836
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Sensitivity of Matching-Based Program Evaluations to the Availability of Control Variables
Lechner, Michael - 2011
Based on new, exceptionally informative and large German linked employer-employee administrative data, we investigate the question whether the omission of important control variables in matching estimation leads to biased impact estimates of typical active labour market programs for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128839
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Determinants of Further Training : Evidence for Germany
Grund, Christian - 2010
Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135987
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Training Incidence and Duration on Labor Market Transitions
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper estimates the impact of training incidence and duration on employment transitions accounting for the endogeneity of program participation and duration. We specify a very flexible bivariate random effects probit model for employment and training participation and we use Bayesian Markov...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136712
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Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored On-the-Job and Classroom Training
Dostie, Benoit - 2010
using dynamic panel GMM methods. We find that employees who undertook classroom training are 11 percent more productive than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136722