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Poverty in America : Trends and Explanations

Hoynes, Hilary - 2005

Despite robust growth in real per capita GDP over the last three decades, the U.S. poverty rate has changed very little …. In an effort to better understand this disconnect, we document and quantify the relationship between poverty and four … different factors that may affect poverty and its evolution over time: labor market opportunities, family structure, anti-poverty …

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Economic Analysis of Social Interactions

Manski, Charles F. - 2000

Economists have long been ambivalent about whether the discipline should focus on the analysis of markets or should be concerned with social interactions more generally. Recently the discipline has sought to broaden its scope while maintaining the rigor of modern economic analysis. Major...

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Firm-to-Firm Trade : Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market

Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...

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Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality : Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics

Imbens, Guido - 2019

In this essay I discuss potential outcome and graphical approaches to causality, and their relevance for empirical work in economics. I review some of the work on directed acyclic graphs, including the recent "The Book of Why," ([Pearl and Mackenzie, 2018]). I also discuss the potential outcome...

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Variation in Performance of Commonly Used Statistical Methods for Estimating Effectiveness of State-Level Opioid Policies on Opioid-Related Mortality

Griffin, Beth Ann - 2020

Over the last two decades, there has been a surge of opioid-related overdose deaths resulting in a myriad of state policy responses. Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of such policies using a wide-range of statistical models, each of which requires multiple design choices that can...

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The Social Multiplier

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2002

In many cases, aggregate data is used to make inferences about individual level behavior. If there are social interactions in which one person's actions influence his neighbor's incentives or information, then these inferences are inappropriate. The presence of positive social interactions, or...

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The Art of Labormetrics

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999

Using a wide array of examples from the literature and from original estimates, this essay examines the pitfalls that make good empirical research in labor economics as much art as science. Appropriateness and cleanliness of data are considered, as are problems of extreme observations and...

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Balancing Incentives : The Tension Between Basic and Applied Research

Cockburn, Iain - 1999

This paper presents empirical evidence that the intensity of research workers' incentives for the distinct tasks of basic and applied research are positively associated with each other. We relate this finding to the prediction of the theoretical literature that when effort is multi-dimensional,...

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Statistical Non-Significance in Empirical Economics

Abadie, Alberto - 2018

Significance tests are probably the most common form of inference in empirical economics, and significance is often interpreted as providing greater informational content than non-significance. In this article we show, however, that rejection of a point null often carries very little...

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Technology and Education : Computers, Software, and the Internet

Bulman, George - 2016

A substantial amount of money is spent on technology by schools, families and policymakers with the hope of improving educational outcomes. This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature on the impacts of technology on educational outcomes. The literature focuses on two primary...

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