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Iatrogenic Specification Error : A Cautionary Tale of Cleaning Data
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Chandra, Amitabh - 2004
often the justification for removing (trimming) or recoding (winsorizing) observations whose values lie outside a specified … winsorizing and trimming are only solutions for a narrow class of measurement error processes. Indeed, for the measurement error … results from the Census PUMS data and 2001 CPS data demonstrate the fragility of trimming and winsorizing as solutions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261852
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Klose, Christoph; Haas, Anette; Bender, Stefan - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262342
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Sibling death clustering in India: state dependence vs. unobserved heterogeneity
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - 2006
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268045
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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
Konstantopoulos, Spyros; Constant, Amelie F. - 2003
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272301
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Estimating More Precise Treatment Effects in Natural and Actual Experiments
Duleep, Harriet; Liu, Xingfei - 2016
The importance of using natural experiments and experimental data in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that these approaches have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524986
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Persistence in Infant Mortality: Evidence for the Indian States
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper investigates the high correlation in infant mortality across siblings using microdata for each of the fifteen major states of India. The main finding is that, in thirteen of the fifteen states, there is evidence of a causal effect of a child death on the risk of death of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233756
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School Effects and Labor Market Outcomes for Young Adults in the 1980s and 1990s
Constant, Amelie; Konstantopoulos, Spyros - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233822
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Ñopo, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703480
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IAB Employment Subsample 1975-1995 Opportunities for Analysis Provided by the Anonymised Subsample
Bender, Stefan; Haas, Anette; Klose, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
The IAB employment subsample is now available for researchers in a third, anonymised version. Following the so-called basic file and the regional file from the IAB employment subsample, which encompassed the years 1975 to 1990, the actualized version of the basic file covers now the years 1975...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822748
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Sibling Death Clustering in India: State Dependence vs. Unobserved Heterogeneity
Arulampalam, Wiji; Bhalotra, Sonia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Data from a range of different environments indicate that the incidence of death is not randomly distributed across families but, rather, that there is a clustering of death amongst siblings. A natural explanation of this would be that there are (observed or unobserved) differences across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762075