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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 …

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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...

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Measurement Error and the Flow of Funds Accounts : Estimates of Householdasset Demand Equations

Walsh, Carl E. - 2010

In the household sector of the Flow of Funds Accounts, the difference between net acquisition of financial assets and net financial savings is equal to a statistical discrepancy which is often quite large relative to the reported changes in asset holdings. This means that the budget restrictions...

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Not-so-Classical Measurement Errors : A Validation Study of Homescan

Einav, Liran - 2008

We report results from a validation study of Nielsen Homescan data. We use data from a large grocery chain to match thousands of individual transactions that were recorded by both the retailer (at the store) and the Nielsen Homescan panelist (at home). First, we report how often shopping trips...

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Estimating Standard Errors in Finance Panel Data Sets : Comparing Approaches

Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2012

In both corporate finance and asset pricing empirical work, researchers are often confronted with panel data. In these data sets, the residuals may be correlated across firms and across time, and OLS standard errors can be biased. Historically, the two literatures have used different solutions...

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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...

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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 Support

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...

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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 …

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Adjusting Body Mass for Measurement Error with Invalid Validation Data

Courtemanche, Charles - 2014

We propose a new method for using validation data to correct self-reported weight and height in surveys that do not measure respondents. The standard correction in prior research regresses actual measures on reported values using an external validation dataset, and then uses the estimated...

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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...

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