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Compulsory Schooling Laws and Formation of Beliefs : Education, Religion and Superstition
Mocan, Naci H. - 2014
We exploit information on compulsory schooling reforms in 11 European countries, implemented mostly in the 1960s and 70s, to identify the impact of education on religious adherence and religious practices. Using micro data from the European Social Survey, conducted in various years between 2002...
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Accounting for the Black-White Wealth Gap : A Nonparametric Approach
Barsky, Robert; Bound, John; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; … - 2021
This paper notes a potential problem in the method of Blinder and Oaxaca the most popular method in the literature for decomposing the mean difference between groups of a given variable into the portion attributable to differences in the distribution of some explanatory variables and differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246487
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Identification and Estimation of Triangular Simultaneous Equations Models Without Additivity
Imbens, Guido W.; Newey, Whitney K. - 2021
This paper investigates identification and inference in a nonparametric structural model with instrumental variables and non-additive errors. We allow for non-additive errors because the unobserved heterogeneity in marginal returns that often motivates concerns about endogeneity of choices...
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Common Sense and Simplicity in Empirical Industrial Organization
Pakes, Ariel - 2021
Conference in Boston, April 2003. I argue that new econometric tools have facilitated the estimation of models with realistic … environmental changes. The paper provides examples illustrating the value of simulation for the estimation of demand systems and of … semiparametrics for the estimation of entry models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210671
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Regional Distribution and Dynamics of Human Capital in China 1985-2014 : Education, Urbanization, and Aging of the Population
Li, Haizheng - 2016
Given the challenges in quantifying the role of human capital on economic development, measuring human capital itself becomes an important issue. It is desirable to have a comprehensive human capital measure that goes beyond the traditional measures based on education attainment, yet is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976986
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Decomposing Medical-Care Expenditure Growth
Dunn, Abe - 2017
Medical-care expenditures have been rising rapidly, accounting for over 17 percent of GDP in 2012. In this study, we assess the sources of the rising medical-care expenditures in the commercial sector. We employ a novel framework for decomposing expenditure growth into four components at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963765
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Accounting for Changes in Between-Group Inequality
Burstein, Ariel T. - 2015
We perform a quantitative analysis of observed changes in U.S. between-group inequality between 1984 and 2003. We use an assignment framework with many labor groups, equipment types, and occupations in which changes in inequality are caused by changes in workforce composition, occupation demand,...
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Sign Restrictions, Structural Vector Autoregressions, and Useful Prior Information
Baumeister, Christiane - 2014
This paper makes the following original contributions to the literature. (1) We develop a simpler analytical characterization and numerical algorithm for Bayesian inference in structural vector autoregressions that can be used for models that are overidentified, just-identified, or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013040238
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The Bidder Exclusion Effect
Coey, Dominic - 2014
and auction formats without requiring instruments or estimation of a complex structural model. We demonstrate the approach …
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Policy Implications of Models of the Spread of Coronavirus : Perspectives and Opportunities for Economists
Avery, Christopher - 2020
This paper provides a critical review of models of the spread of the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) epidemic that have been influential in recent policy decisions. There is tremendous opportunity for social scientists to advance the relevant literature as new and better data becomes available to...
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