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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992
Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François - 2000
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297727
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Selbständigkeit in Europa 1991 - 2003: Empirische Evidenz mit Länderdaten
Göggel, Kathrin; Gräb, Johannes; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - 2006
In dieser Studie werden ausgewählte makroökonomische Determinanten der Anzahl der Selbständigen in fünfzehn Ländern Europas untersucht. Datenbasis sind die Arbeitskräfteerhebungen der Europäischen Union für die Jahre 1991 ? 2003. Ausgangspunkt der Studie ist der Rückgang der Anzahl der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297523
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Map Intersection Based Merging Schemes for Administrative Data Sources and an Application to Germany
Arntz, Melanie; Wilke, Ralf A. - 2005
In many situations the applied researcher wants to combine different data sources without knowing the exact link and merging rule. This paper introduces a theoretical framework how two different regional administrative data sources can be merged. It presents different merging schemes based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297429
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Empirical determinants of employee resistance against innovations
Zwick, Thomas - 2000
Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297711
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
van den Berg, Gerard J.; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308274
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Instrumental variable estimation of the causal effect of hunger early in life on health later in life
den Berg, Gerard J. van; Pinger, Pia R.; Schoch, Johannes - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Numerous studies have evaluated the effect of nutrition early in life on health much later in life by comparing … provide exogenous variation in the provision of nutrition. However, living through a famine early in life does not necessarily … imply a lack of nutrition during that age interval, and vice versa, and in this sense the observed difference at most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957661
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Consumption and nutrition: age - intake profiles for Czechoslovakia 1989 - 1992
Miquel, Ruth; Laisney, François - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2000
This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the relation between nutrient intake and age for Czechoslovak individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household purchases. Results show no significant difference between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097563
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The unification bonus (malus) in postwall Eastern Germany
Beblo, Miriam; Collier, Irwin L.; Knaus, Thomas - 2001
centralized to a market economy and the estimation of plausible counterfactual income streams. Our central result is that 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297766
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Finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of vector STAR models
Schleer, Frauke - 2013
This paper focuses on finding starting-values for maximum likelihood estimation of Vector STAR models. Based on a Monte …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324135
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Considerations on partially identified regression models
Cerquera, Daniel; Laisney, François; Ullrich, Hannes - 2012
one covariate is only interval-measured, we offer several contributions. Manski and Tamer (2002) propose two estimation … simple shortcut for estimation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308487