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Reviving the Federal Statistical System : International Aspects

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Despite the impression that the federal statistical system has been starved for resources, the record over the last decade or so, judged by conventional deflation methods, has been one of rough stability. The quality of U.S. international data on commodity and service trade, direct investment,...

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Doing More When You're Running Late : Applying Marginal Treatment Effect Methods to Examine Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Experiments

Kowalski, Amanda - 2016

I examine treatment effect heterogeneity within an experiment to inform external validity. The local average treatment effect (LATE) gives an average treatment effect for compliers. I bound and estimate average treatment effects for always takers and never takers by extending marginal treatment...

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Eliminating the Pass-Through : Towards FDI Statistics that Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries

Borga, Maria - 2018

FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect other factors … developing a framework for consolidated FDI statistics based on the nationality of the MNE group that complements residency …-based FDI statistics. While residency-based statistics are useful to identify where financial claims and liabilities are held …

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Measuring Gross Worker and Job Flows

Davis, Steven J.; Haltiwanger, John C. - 2021

We combine information from several different studies and data sets to assemble a fuller, more accurate picture of job flows and worker flows in U.S. labor markets. Our picture characterizes the magnitudes of job and worker flows, the connections between them, their cyclical behavior,...

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Application of Nationality-Adjusted Net Sales and Value Added Framework : The Case of Japan

Kimura, Fukunari; Baldwin, Robert E. - 2021

This paper applies the nationality-adjusted net sales and value added framework proposed in Baldwin and Kimura (1996) to Japan. Despite possibly large estimation errors due to statistical deficiencies, the framework is very useful for analyzing the relationship of the Japanese economy to the...

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The Extent of Measurement Error in Longitudinal Earnings Data : Do Two Wrongs Make a Right?

Bound, John; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021

This paper examines the properties and prevalence of measurement error in longitudinal earnings data. The analysis compares Current Population Survey data to administrative Social Security payroll tax records for a sample of heads of households over two years. In contrast. to the typically...

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Inference with "Difference in Differences" with a Small Number of Policy Changes

Conley, Timothy G.; Taber, Christopher - 2021

Difference in differences methods have become very popular in applied work. This paper provides a new method for inference in these models when there are a small number of policy changes. This situation occurs in many implementations of these estimators. Identification of the key parameter...

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Statistical Treatment Rules for Heterogeneous Populations : with Application to Randomized Experiments

Manski, Charles F. - 2021

This paper uses Wald's concept of the risk of a statistical decision function to address the question: How should sample data on treatment response be used to guide treatment choices in a heterogeneous population? Statistical treatment rules (STRs) are statistical decision functions that map...

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Axiomatic and Economic Approaches to International Comparisons

Diewert, Walter E. - 2010

The paper considers the problem of choosing a multilateral system of index numbers in order to make aggregate price and quantity comparisons between many countries and regions. The problems involved in choosing functional forms in order to make these comparisons are both theoretically and...

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Retirement Research Using the Health and Retirement Survey

Gustman, Alan L. - 2010

This paper highlights unanswered research questions in the economics of retirement, and shows how these issues can be addressed using the new Health and Retirement Survey (HRS). Unique features of the survey are described including administrative records on earnings and social security benefits,...

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