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The Variability and Volatility of Sleep: An Archetypal Approach

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2022

individuals' sleep time exhibits both variability and volatility characterized by stationary autoregressive conditional … young children at home. Volatility is greater among parents with young children, slightly greater among men than women, but … rates. Volatility in sleep spills over onto volatility in other personal activities, with no reverse causation onto sleep …

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Micro and macro determinants of health: Older immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to …

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A "Healthy Immigrant Effect" or a "Sick Immigrant Effect"? Selection and Policies Matter

Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2015

data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually … natives; b) immigrants to Europe have better health than natives upon arrival and up to eleven years since arrival in the host …

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The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats

Calderon-Madrid, Angel; Voicu, Alexandru - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants´responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregateproductivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American TradeAgreement (NAFTA)...

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Tracking When Ranking Matters

Landaud, Fanny; Maurin, Eric - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of grouping students by prior achievement into different classes (or schools) in settings where students are competing for admission to programs offering only a limited number of places. We first develop a model that identifies the conditions under which the...

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Combining Survey and Geospatial Data Can Significantly Improve Gender-Disaggregated Estimates of Labor Market Outcomes

Merfeld, Joshua D.; Newhouse, David; Weber, Michael; … - 2022

Better understanding the geography of women's labor market outcomes within countries is important to inform targeted efforts to increase women's economic empowerment. This paper assesses the extent to which a method that combines simulated survey data from urban areas in Mexico with broadly...

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Do Pre-registration and Pre-analysis Plans Reduce P-Hacking and Publication Bias?

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Hartley, Jonathan S.; … - 2022

Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are increasingly prominent in economics, with pre-registration and pre-analysis plans (PAPs) promoted as important in ensuring the credibility of findings. We investigate whether these tools reduce the extent of p-hacking and publication bias by collecting and...

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We Need to Talk about Mechanical Turk: What 22,989 Hypothesis Tests Tell Us about Publication Bias and p-Hacking in Online Experiments

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Heyes, Anthony - 2022

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a very widely-used tool in business and economics research, but how trustworthy are results from well-published studies that use it? Analyzing the universe of hypotheses tested on the platform and published in leading journals between 2010 and 2020 we find evidence of...

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P-Hacking, Data Type and Data-Sharing Policy

Brodeur, Abel; Cook, Nikolai; Neisser, Carina - 2022

In this paper, we examine the relationship between p-hacking and data-sharing policies for published articles. We collect 38,876 test statistics from 1,106 articles published in leading economic journals between 2002–2020. While a data-sharing policy increases the provision of research data to...

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Mandatory Seatbelt Laws and Traffic Fatalities: A Reassessment

Anderson, D. Mark; Liang, Yang; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2022

Using data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System for the period 1983-1997, Cohen and Einav (Review of Economics and Statistics 2003; 85(4): 828–843) found that mandatory seatbelt laws were associated with a 4 to 6 percent reduction in traffic fatalities among motor vehicle occupants. After...

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