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Separating seasonal components from other sources of economic fluctuations is crucial for both economic modeling and policy making. Practitioners treat seasonality as noise to be removed before estimating models and tend to apply deseasonalizing methods i
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In this study standard Mincer earnings equations are estimated using both ordinary least squares (OLS) and quantile regression in order to give a comprehensive picture of the returns to education in Germany and Hungary for the year 2000. To make the cross-country comparison of the returns to...
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Using village date from Tanzania, we test whether gifts and loans between households are voluntary while correcting for mis-reporting by the giving and receiving households. Tow maintained assumptions underlie our analysis: answers to a question on who people would turn to for help are good...
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integrated environment. The report on the impact evaluation of the program is available at Kézdi and Surányi (2009). The results … and methods of the impact evaluation research were criticized in a paper published (in Hungarian) in Magyar Tudomány … paper we show that the critiques are unfounded. In this study we also summarize the conclusions from the impact evaluation …
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the theoretical background and the details of the design of the measurement instrument adopted in the evaluation of the … general points of the design of such measurement instruments. The results and methods of the impact evaluation research were …
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A new family of kernels is suggested for use in heteroskedasticity and autocorrelation consistent (HAC) and long run variance (LRV) estimation and robust regression testing. The kernels are constructed by taking powers of the Bartlett kernel and are intended to be used with no truncation (or...
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