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Identification via completeness for discrete covariates and orthogonal polynomials
Kovchegov, Yevgeniy; Yıldız, Neşe - 2012
We solve a class of identification problems for nonparametric and semiparametric models when the endogenous covariate is discrete with unbounded support. Then we proceed with an approach that resolves a polynomial basis problem for the above class of discrete distributions, and for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500201
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Euler Equation Estimation on Micro Data
Alan, Sule; Atalay, Kadir; Crossley, Thomas F. - 2012
First order conditions from the dynamic optimization problems of consumers and firms are important tools in empirical macroeconomics. When estimated on micro-data these equations are typically linearized so standard IV or GMM methods can be employed to deal with the measurement error that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500226
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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation
Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003
Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430042
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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430093
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UNLOCKING PRODUCTIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP INAFRICA’S LEAST DEVELOPEDCOUNTRIES
Brixiová, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
In Africa’s least developed countries (LDCs), escape from poverty and convergence to livingstandards of more advanced economies depends critically on structural transformation and theemergence of productive entrepreneurship that would accelerate growth and job creation. So far,however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360486
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Follow your heart: Survival chances and costs after heart attacks - An instrumental variable approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - 2014
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310801
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Follow your heart: Survival chances and costs after heart attacks - An instrumental variable approach
Sanwald, Alice; Schober, Thomas - 2014
We analyze mortality and follow-up costs of heart attack patients using administrative data from Austria from 2002 … effect on 3-year mortality is -9.5 percentage points. A separation of the sample into subgroups shows the strongest effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316321
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Being born under adverse economic conditions leads to a higher cardiovascular mortality rate in life: Evidence based on inidviduals born at different stages of the business cycle
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Doblhammer-Reiter, Gabriele; … - 2008
the effects of economic conditions on the individual cardiovascular (CV) mortality rate later in life, using individual … negative effect of economic conditions early in life on the individual CV mortality rate at higher ages. There is no effect on … the cancer-specific mortality rate. From variation within and between monozygotic and dizygotic twin pairs born under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273979
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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life
van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten; Lopéz, Marta - 2007
We analyze the effect of being born in a recession on the mortality rate later in life in conjunction with social class … inequality measures. The results indicate that being born in a recession increases the mortality rate later in life for most of … the population. Lower social classes suffer disproportionally from being born in recessions. This exacerbates mortality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317905
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The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Gupta, Sumedha - 2011
This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality … indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality … important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer …
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