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School performance, score inflation and economic geography

Battistin, Erich; Neri, Lorenzo - 2017

We show that grading standards for primary school exams in England have triggered an inflation of quality indicators in the national performance tables for almost two decades. The cumulative effects have resulted in significant differences in the quality signaled to parents for otherwise...

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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe

Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nichole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2011

We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source … of exogenous variation in education. Using data from 8 European countries, we assess the causal effect of education on … the number of biological kids and the incidence of childlessness. We find that more education causes a substantial …

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Proxy structural vector autoregressions, informational sufficiency and the role of monetary policy

Miescu, Mirela S.; Mumtaz, Haroon - 2019

We show that the contemporaneous and longer horizon impulse responses estimated using small-scale Proxy structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) can be severely biased in the presence of information insufficiency. Instead, we recommend the use of a Proxy Factor Augmented VAR (FAVAR) model that...

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Coaches on Fire or Firing the Coach? Evidence of the Impact of Coach Changes on Team Performance from Italian Serie A

Argentieri, Alessandro; Canova, Luciano; Manera, Matteo - 2019

In this paper, football data from the 2007/2008 to 2016/2017 seasons of the Italian Serie A were used to identify the effects of replacing a coach mid-season due to poor team performance. We used an instrumental variable approach to correlate coach turnover within a season with player...

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Combining two consistent estimators

Chao, John; Hausman, Jerry; Newey, Whitney; Swanson, Norman - 2012

This paper shows how a weighted average of a forward and reverse Jackknife IV estimator (JIVE) yields estimators that are robust against heteroscedasticity and many instruments. These estimators, called HFUL (Heteroscedasticity robust Fuller) and HLIM (Heteroskedasticity robust limited...

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An expository note on the existence of moments of Fuller and HFUL estimators

Chao, John; Hausman, Jerry; Newey, Whitney; Swanson, Norman - 2013

In a recent paper, Hausman et al. (2012) propose a new estimator, HFUL (Heteroscedasticity robust Fuller), for the linear model with endogeneity. This estimator is consistent and asymptotically normally distributed in the many instruments and many weak instruments asymptotics. Moreover, this...

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Asymptotic Normality of Single-Equation Estimators for the Case with a Large Number of Weak Instruments

Swanson, Norman R.; Chao, John C. - 2003

This paper analyzes conditions under which various single-equation estimators are asymptotically normal in a simultaneous equations framework with many weak instruments. In particular, our paper adds to the many instruments asymptotic normality literature, including papers by Morimune (1983),...

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Consistent Estimation with a Large Number of Weak Instruments

Chao, John C.; Swanson, Norman R. - 2004

This paper analyzes the conditions under which consistent estimation can be achieved in instrumental Variables (IV) regression when the available instruments are weak, in the local-to-zero sense of Staiger and Stock (1997) and using the many-instrument framework of Morimune (1983) and Bekker...

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Testing overidentifying restrictions with many instruments and heteroskedasticity

Chao, John C.; Hausman, Jerry A.; Newey, Whitney K.; … - 2011

This paper gives a test of overidentifying restrictions that is robust to many instruments and heteroskedasticity. It is based on a jackknife version of the Sargan test statistic, having a numerator that is the objective function minimized by the JIVE2 estimator of Angrist, Imbens, and Krueger...

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Asymptotic distribution of JIVE in a heteroskedastic IV regression with many instruments

Chao, John C.; Swanson, Norman R.; Hausman, Jerry A.; … - 2011

This paper derives the limiting distributions of alternative jackknife IV (JIV) estimators and gives formulae for accompanying consistent standard errors in the presence of heteroskedasticity and many instruments. The asymptotic framework includes the many instrument sequence of Bekker (1994)...

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