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Testing for poverty dominance: an application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2008

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272033

Searching for rehabilitation in nonparametric regression models with exogenous treatment assignment

Henderson, Daniel J.; Maasoumi, Esfandiar - 2012

This paper offers some new directions in the analysis of nonparamertric models with exogenous treatment assignment. The nonparametric approach opens the door to the examination of potentially different distributed outcomes. When combined with cross-validation, it also identifies potentially...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289871

On Representative Social Capital

Bellemare, Charles; Kröger, Sabine - 2004

reward investments in building up social capital by means of an economic experiment. We find substantial heterogeneity in the … the experiment. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261894

Efficiency gains from team-based coordination: large-scale experimental evidence

Feri, Francesco; Irlenbusch, Bernd; Sutter, Matthias - 2008

coordinate with other teams. We present an experiment with 825 participants, using six different coordination games, where either …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268555

An Experimental Study of the POUM Hypothesis

Checchi, Daniele; Filippin, Antonio - 2003

period and individuals are not too risk averse. This paper tests the POUM hypothesis by means of a within subjects experiment … inequality aversion are (partially) controlled for via either the experiment design or the information collected during the … experiment. We find that the POUM hypothesis holds under alternative specifications, even when we control for individual fixed …

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Learning of General Equilibrium Effects and the Unemployment Trap

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001

We examine wage bargaining when employers and labor unions do not always take all general equilibrium effects into account but learn a steady state. If agents do hardly consider general equilibrium effects, low real wages and low unemployment results. With an intermediate view, when partial...

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The rate of learning-by-doing: estimates from a search-matching model

Prat, Julien - 2007

We construct and estimate by maximum likelihood an equilibrium search model where wages are set by Nash bargaining and idiosyncratic productivity follows a geometric Brownian motion. The proposed framework enables us to endogenize job destruction and to estimate the rate of learning-by-doing....

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Efficient tax policy ranks education higher than saving

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2008

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient not to distort the choice of education. In general this implies distorting the saving decision. Hence a strict order of policy priority is derived. Efficient tax policy...

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Job market signaling and employer learning

Alós-Ferrer, Carlos; Prat, Julien - 2008

This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their employees over time. Contrary to the model without employer learning, we find that the Intuitive Criterion does not always select a unique separating equilibrium. When the Intuitive...

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Don't give up on me baby: spousal correlation in smoking behaviour

Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2005

We use nine waves of BHPS data to examine interactions between spouses in terms of a behaviour with important health repercussions: cigarette smoking. Correlation between partners' behaviours may be due to correlated effects, as a consequence of matching or information revealed by others'...

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