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Public versus private sector wage gap in Egypt: Evidence from quantile regression on panel data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim; Özdemir, Abidin - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
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Decomposing outcome differences between HBCU and non-HBCU institutions
De Zeeuw, Mels; Fazili, Sameera; Hotchkiss, Julie L. - 2020
This paper investigates differences in outcomes between historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) and traditional college and universities (non-HBCUs) using a standard Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition. This method decomposes differences in observed educational and labor market outcomes...
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A test of the conditional independence assumption in sample selection models
Huber, Martin; Melly, Blaise - 2012
Identification in most sample selection models depends on the independence of the regressors and the error terms conditional on the selection probability. All quantile and mean functions are parallel in these models; this implies that quantile estimators cannot reveal any - per assumption...
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Determinants of obesity in Turkey: A quantile regression analysis from a developing country
Karaoğlan, Hanife Deniz; Tansel, Aysit - 2017
This study investigates the factors that may influence the obesity in Turkey which is a developing country by implementing Quantile Regression (QR) methodology. The control factors that we consider are education, labor market outcomes, household income, age, gender, region and marital status....
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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short-and long-term effects of entering...
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Auction mechanisms and bidder collusion: Bribes, signals and selection
Llorente-Saguer, Aniol; Zultan, Ro'i - 2014
The theoretical literature on collusion in auctions suggests that the first-price mechanism can deter the formation of … likely to affect the bidding behavior in first-price (but not second-price) auctions. We test experimentally a setup in which … collusion in first-price and second-price auctions. Furthermore, failed collusion attempts distort the bidding behavior in the …
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Auctions vs negotiations in public procurement: Which works better?
Lalive, Rafael; Schmutzler, Armin; Zulehner, Christine - 2015
Public agencies mainly rely on two modes to procure goods and services: auctions and direct negotiations. We study a … 1994 policy change in Germany that introduced the possibility to procure rail services in auctions as well as in direct …, auctions improve service levels and reduce prices. As a result, surplus on auctioned lines increased by about 30 …
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The price of inattention: Evidence from the Swedish housing market
Repetto, Luca; Solis, Alex - 2017
Do behavioral biases a affect prices in a high-stake market? We study the role of left digit bias in the purchase of an apartment, one of the most important assets in a household's portfolio. Left-digit bias is the inability to fully process digits after the first, perceiving prices just below a...
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Sealed Bid Auctions vs. Ascending Bid Auctions: An Experimental Study
Andersson, Tommy; Andersson, Christer; Andersson, Ola - 2010
This paper considers the sealed bid and ascending auction, which both identifies the minimum Walrasian equilibrium prices and where truthful preference revelation constitutes an equilibrium. Even though these auction formats share many theoretical properties, there are behavioral aspects that...
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Bidding Rings: A Bargaining Approach
Chatterjee, Kalyan; Mitra, Manipushpak; Mukherjee, Conan - 2016
We address the issue of bidder ring formation in single and multi-unit Vickrey auctions. We address this issue in a …
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