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A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis
Barr, Tavis; Lin, Carl - 2013
Social scientists are often interested in assessing relative changes between two groups over time, for example, the convergence of black-white wages from 1940 to 1990. In such situations, we need a control group for both treatment groups to remove biases resulting from time trends and unobserved...
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Are Sufficient Statistics Necessary? Nonparametric Measurement of Deadweight Loss from Unemployment Insurance
Lee, David S.; Leung, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J.; … - 2019
Central to the welfare analysis of income transfer programs is the deadweight loss associated with possible reforms. To aid analytical tractability, its measurement typically requires specifying a simplified model of behavior. We employ a complementary "decomposition" approach that compares the...
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Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob - 1999
common. Empirical analysis based on a sample of employed women in the Dutch Socio- Economic Panel (1987-1989) shows, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262303
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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), cross-sectional wage regression results from 1997 … and panel results from 1984-1997 are presented. It is shown that the wage premium attributed to using a computer at work …) stress the need for panel data to control for unmeasured individual effects, we use GSOEP 1984-1997 panel data, where a …
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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)
Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999
-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the German Mikrozensus (MZ), the American Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the American Current … resembles the American structure strongly. Cross-sectional and panel results are provided for both countries. Controlling for … unobserved heterogeneity in the random effects panel estimations reduces the industry wage dispersion by about half. Thus …
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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 - 2000
We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...
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Normalized equation and decomposition analysis: computation and inference
Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005
This paper joins discussions on normalized regression and decomposition equations in devising a simple and general algorithm for obtaining the normalized regression and applying it to the Oaxaca decomposition. This resolves the invariance problem in the detailed Oaxaca decomposition. An...
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Electoral rules and politicians' behavior: a micro test
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 2008
Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians' rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House of Representatives, which allow us to sidestep the...
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Targeting non-cognitive skills to improve cognitive outcomes: evidence from a remedial education intervention
Holmlund, Helena; Silva, Olmo - 2009
A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of policies that specifically target students' non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educational...
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A note on decomposing differences in poverty incidence using regression estimates: algorithm and example
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2006
This paper decomposes differences in poverty incidence (head count ratio) using estimates from a regression equation, synthesizing the approaches proposed in World Bank (2003) and Yun (2004). A significance test is developed for characteristics and coefficients effects when decomposing...
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