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Under the Weather : Health, Schooling, and Economic Consequences of Early-Life Rainfall
Maccini, Sharon - 2010
effect of weather conditions around the time of birth on the health, education, and socioeconomic outcomes of Indonesian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759306
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A Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities
Avery, Christopher; Glickman, Mark E.; Hoxby, Caroline M.; … - 2006
We show how to construct a ranking of U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. We construct examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high-achieving students. Our statistical model extends models used for ranking players in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069303
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Estimating the Value of a Statistical Life : The Importance of Omitted Variables and Publication Bias
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2011
In this paper we show that omitted variables and publication bias lead to severely biased estimates of the value of a statistical life. Although our empirical results are obtained in the context of a study of choices about road safety, we suspect that the same issues plague the estimation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132340
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Classification, Detection and Consequences of Data Error : Evidence from the Human Development Index
Wolff, Hendrik - 2010
We measure and examine data error in health, education and income statistics used to construct the Human Development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135405
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Mismeasurement of Pensions Before and after Retirement : The Mystery of the Disappearing Pensions with Implications for the Importance of Social Security as a Source of Retirement...
Gustman, Alan L. - 2012
A review of the literature suggests that when pension values are measured by the wealth equivalent of promised DB pension benefits and DC balances for those approaching retirement, pensions account for more support in retirement than is suggested when their contribution is measured by incomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097779
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Measuring Test Measurement Error : A General Approach
Boyd, Donald - 2012
education rely on achievement tests to measure student skills and knowledge. Yet we know little regarding important properties … allowing for either growth or decay in knowledge and skills between tests as well as variation in the degree of measurement … achievement growth. Estimation only requires descriptive statistics (e.g., correlations) for the tests. When student-level test …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107477
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Improving GDP Measurement : A Measurement-Error Perspective
Aruoba, S. Borağan - 2013
We provide a new and superior measure of U.S. GDP, obtained by applying optimal signal-extraction techniques to the (noisy) expenditure-side and income-side estimates. Its properties - particularly as regards serial correlation - differ markedly from those of the standard expenditure-side...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083397
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Retractions
Azoulay, Pierre - 2014
To what extent does "false science" impact the rate and direction of scientific change? We examine the impact of more than 1,100 scientific retractions on the citation trajectories of articles that are related to retracted papers in intellectual space but were published prior to the retraction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065177
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Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Estimates of Climate Change Impacts, with Applications to U.S. And African Agriculture
Burke, Marshall - 2014
A growing body of economics research projects the effects of global climate change on economic outcomes. Climate scientists often criticize these articles because nearly all ignore the well-established uncertainty in future temperature and rainfall changes, and therefore appear likely to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067961
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Accounting for Expectational and Structural Error in Binary Choice Problems : A Moment Inequality Approach
Dickstein, Michael - 2013
Many economic decisions involve a binary choice - for example, when consumers decide to purchase a good or when firms decide to enter a new market. In such settings, agents' choices often depend on imperfect expectations of the future payoffs from their decision (expectational error) as well as...
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