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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone?s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008

bias. This is because emigration improves the design of goods designed by skilled emigrants but consumed in the sending …

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The quality-complementarity hypothesis: theory and evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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School quality, educational attainment and aggregation bias

Fertig, Michael; Wright, Robert E. - 2004

Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...

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Minimizing bias in selection on observables estimators when unconfoundness fails

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - 2008

We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …

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Social ties and subjective performance evaluations: An empirical investigation

Breuer, Kathrin; Nieken, Petra; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

We empirically investigate possible distortions in subjective performance evaluations. A key hypothesis is that evaluations are more upward biased the closer the social ties between supervisor and appraised employee. We test this hypothesis with a company data set from a call center organization...

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Non-response biases in surveys of school children: the case of the English PISA samples

Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola; Skinner, Chris - 2010

We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...

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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …

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Minimizing Bias in Selection on Observables Estimators When Unconfoundness Fails

Millimet, Daniel L.; Tchernis, Rusty - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …

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Reconsidering Union Wage Effects: Surveying New Evidence on an Old Topic

Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

average union premium of roughly 15 percent is called into question. Two forms of measurement error create a downward bias in … standard wage gap estimates. Match bias results from Census earnings imputation procedures that do not include union status as … a match criterion. Downward bias is roughly equal to the proportion of workers with imputed earnings, currently about 30 …

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