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Identifying the returns to lying when the truth is unobserved
Hu, Yingyao; Lewbel, Arthur - 2007
Consider an observed binary regressor D and an unobserved binary variable D*, both of which affect some other variable Y. This paper considers nonparametric identification and estimation of the effect of D on Y , conditioning on D* = 0. For example, suppose Y is a person's wage, the unobserved D...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277518
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Returns to private education in Peru
Calónico, Sebastián; Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
The private provision of educational services has been representing an increasing fraction of the Peruvian schooling system, especially in recent last decades. While there have been many claims about the differences in quality between private and public schools, there is no complete assessment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278220
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294896
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Social stratification and out-of-school learning
Andersson, Christian; Johansson, Per - 2009
To study effects of out-of-school learning we use data on boarding home pupils who attended elementary public schools in the 1940's. The out-of-school environment at the boarding homes could be considered being more learner friendly than the home environment on average: the pupils at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273957
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The wage expectations of European college students
Brunello, Giorgio; Lucifora, Claudio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2001
the results of the first systematic study of the wage expectations of European college students. Our data are based on the … replies to the same questionnaire by more than 6000 college students all over Europe. We study the determinants of wage …-specific micro-data. In line with U.S. studies we find that students overestimate returns to education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294525
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Making the (letter) grade: The incentive effects of mandatory pass/fail courses
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2022
-semester students, although instructors continued to record letter grades. We identify the causal effect of the policy on course choice … and performance, using a regressiondiscontinuity-in-time design. Students shifted to lower-grading STEM courses in the … first semester, but did not increase their engagement with STEM in later semesters. Letter grades of first-semester students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301988
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Women's colleges and economics major choice: Evidence from Wellesley College applicants
Butcher, Kristin F.; McEwan, Patrick J.; Weerapana, Akila - 2023
college exposure to female instructors and students, consistent with a wider role for women's colleges in increasing female …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480616
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The relationship between GDP and the size of the informal economy: Empirical evidence for Spain
Duarte, Pablo - 2014
The empirical evidence on the linkage of the informal economy and GDP is ambiguous. It depends on the method used to estimate the size of the informal economy. I propose a common factor of four different approximations of the size of the informal economy as an alternative. Using Spain as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332839
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The Factor-Lasso and K-Step bootstrap approach for inference in high-dimensional economic applications
Hansen, Christian; Liao, Yuan - 2016
We consider inference about coefficients on a small number of variables of interest in a linear panel data model with additive unobserved individual and time specific effects and a large number of additional time-varying confounding variables. We allow the number of these additional confounding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687926
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Individual social capital and migration
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Rupasingha, Anil - 2018
This paper determines how individual, relative to community, social capital affects individual migration decisions. We make use of nonpublic data from the Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey to predict multidimensional social capital for observations in the Current Population Survey. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030269