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Construction of the Earnings and Benefits File (EBF) for Use With the Health and Retirement Survey
Mitchell, Olivia - 1996
Analysts using the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) often require information on earnings, labor market attachment, and social security benefits in order to better understand the factors affecting retirement and well-being at older ages. To this end, several derived variables were constructed...
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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game
Butera, Luigi - 2020
Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new research landscape is the nature and extent to which scholars generate data. Today, in nearly every field the experimental approach plays an increasingly crucial role in testing...
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No Ground Truth? : No Problem : Improving Administrative Data Linking Using Active Learning and a Little Bit of Guile
Tahamont, Sarah; Jelveh, Zubin; McNeill, Melissa; Yan, Shi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While linking records across large administrative datasets ["big data"] has the potential to revolutionize empirical social science research, many administrative data files do not have common identifiers and are thus not designed to be linked to others. To address this problem, researchers have...
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International Student Mobility : Growth and Dispersion
Kaushal, Neeraj - 2019
mobility - the human capital model and the migration model - across traditional and emerging destinations. Our findings suggest … that while the predictions of the migration model are generally valid in explaining student emigration to non …
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The Effect of Expected Income on Individual Migration Decisions
Kennan, John - 2003
The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …
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Private but Misunderstood? Evidence on Measuring Intimate Partner Violence via Self-Interviewing in Rural Liberia and Malawi
Park, David Sungho; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, Dahyeon; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Women may under-report intimate partner violence (IPV) in surveys due to a variety of social and psychological factors. To understand if anonymized interviewing can allay this concern, we conduct a measurement experiment in rural Liberia and Malawi in which women were asked IPV questions via...
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How Social Processes Distort Measurement : The Impact of Survey Nonresponse on Estimates of Volunteer Work
Abraham, Katharine G. - 2008
Estimates of volunteering in the United States vary greatly from survey to survey and do not show the decline over time common to other measures of social capital. We argue that these anomalies are caused by the social processes that determine survey participation, in particular the propensity...
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Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Discovery : A Model of Prioritized Search
Agrawal, Ajay; McHale, John; Oettl, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We model a key step in the innovation process, hypothesis generation, as the making of predictions over a vast combinatorial space. Traditionally, scientists and innovators use theory or intuition to guide their search. Increasingly, however, they use artificial intelligence (AI) instead. We...
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Economic Imperialism
Lazear, Edward P. - 1999
Economics is not only a social science, it is a genuine science. Like the physical sciences, economics uses a methodology that produces refutable implications and tests these implications using solid statistical techniques. In particular, economics stresses three factors that distinguish it from...
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A Critical Assessment of the Role of Imperfect Competition in Macroeconomics
Carlton, Dennis W. - 1996
New Keynesian models and some models of growth rely on market power for their results. This sole focus on market power as the source for certain macroeconomic phenomena is misguided both theoretically and empirically. New Keynesian multipliers are closely related to standard measures of...
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