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allowing for the endogeneity of schooling, using the control function approach proposed by Lee (2007). Using household data … earnings distribution. It is also found that accounting for the endogeneity of schooling leads to a higher rate of return to …
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in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …
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variances, the non-parametric aspect of the estimation may discourage practitioners from its use. This paper outlines how the … the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Accounting for endogeneity increases the estimate of the return to …
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This paper shows nonparametric identification of quantile treatment effects (QTE) in the regression discontinuity design. The distributional impacts of social programs such as welfare, education, training programs and unemployment insurance are of large interest to economists. QTE are an...
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We examine theoretically and empirically the properties of the equilibrium wage function and its implications for policy. Our emphasis is on how the researcher approaches economic and policy questions when there is labor market heterogeneity leading to a set of wages. We focus on the application...
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We propose a specification test for a wide range of parametric models for the conditional distribution function of an outcome variable given a vector of covariates. The test is based on the Cramer-von Mises distance between an unrestricted estimate of the joint distribution function of the data,...
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, using data on male workers from the 2001 wave of the European Community Household Panel. The issue of schooling endogeneity …
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allowing for the endogeneity of schooling, using the control function approach proposed by Lee (2007). Using household data … earnings distribution. It is also found that accounting for the endogeneity of schooling leads to a higher rate of return to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678684
Using microdata on the 1995 cohort of Italian high school graduates, this paper studies the relationship between the type of high school attended (general versus technical; private versus public) and indicators of subsequent performance. Simultaneity issues that potentially bias this type of...
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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the internal labour market for qualified nurses. This paper examines this issue with regard to the promotion process using 1994 survey data. We start by rejecting the assumption of...
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