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Exploratory Data Analysis on Large Data Sets: The Example of Salary Variation in Spanish Social Security Data
Nicodemo, Catia; Satorra, Albert - 2020
sample. This paper presents Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) methods that are useful when a large dataset is involved. The EDA … from data using simple graphical tools. In this paper, some of the EDA methods like the Boxplot and Scatterplot are …. The EDA methods are also applied to assessing competing regressions with earnings as the dependent variable. The methods …
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Model Averaging and Double Machine Learning
Ahrens, Achim; Hansen, Christian B.; Schaffer, Mark E; … - 2024
common alternative approaches based on single pre-selected learners. We provide Stata and R software implementing our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469867
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Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement
Saiz, Albert; Salazar-Miranda, Arianna - 2023
Recent advancements in data collection have expanded the tools and information available for urban and spatial-based research. This paper presents an overview of spatial big data sources used in urban science and urban economics, with the goal of directing and enriching future research by other...
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The Rising Cost of Child Care in the United States: A Reassessment of the Evidence
Herbst, Chris M. - 2015
Anecdotal evidence suggests that the cost of child care in the U.S. has increased substantially over the past few decades. This paper marshals data from a variety of sources to rigorously assess the issue. It begins by using nationally representative survey data to trace the evolution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288195
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Simple Tests for Selection Bias: Learning More from Instrumental Variables
Black, Dan A.; Joo, Joonhwi; LaLonde, Robert J.; Smith, … - 2015
We provide simple tests for selection on unobserved variables in the Vytlacil-Imbens-Angrist framework for Local Average Treatment Effects. The tests allow researchers not only to test for selection on either or both of the treated and untreated outcomes, but also to assess the magnitude of the...
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Does the Precision and Stability of Value-Added Estimates of Teacher Performance Depend on the Types of Students They Serve?
Stacy, Brian; Guarino, Cassandra; Reckase, Mark D.; … - 2013
This paper investigates how the precision and stability of a teacher's value-added estimate relates to the characteristics of the teacher's students. Using a large administrative data set and a variety of teacher value-added estimators, it finds that the stability over time of teacher...
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2013
The past couple of decades have seen a huge increase in research on various labor market institutions. This paper offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance (UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329199
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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Vocational Training for Unemployed Youth in Latvia: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design
Bratti, Massimiliano; Ghirelli, Corinna; Havari, Enkelejda - 2018
This paper evaluates the impact of a vocational training programme on the labour market outcomes of unemployed youth in Latvia. The programme is part of the Youth Guarantee scheme for the period 2014-2020, the largest action launched by the European Union to reduce youth unemployment rate and to...
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Wages, Creative Destruction, and Union Networks
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2018
Do unions promote creative destruction? In this paper we apply a shift-share approach and historical unionisation data from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local...
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