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This study presents a general method for estimating the classification reliability of complex decisions based on multiple scores from a single test administration. The proposed method consists of four steps that can be applied to a variety of measurement models and configural rules for combining...
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public education and imperfect annuity markets, a decline in mortality affects growth through three channels. First, it …This paper examines the impact of declines in adult mortality on growth in an overlapping generations model. With … to increase the tax rate for public education initially but lower the tax rate in a later stage. Starting from a high …
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analysis is to investigate the importance of health, education, and infrastructure indicators for income growth. The second …This paper uses three waves of panel surveys at the household level to study growth and poverty in Albania over the … of growth and aims to expose the obstacles households face to improve their economic situation. The main focus of the …
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Measuring continuous change or growth in individual students' academic abilities over time currently uses several … investigated a single integrated model of underlying growth within an Item Response Theory framework as a potential alternative to … Expectation-Maximization algorithm under variations of several conditions, including the form of the underlying growth trajectory …
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This paper investigates the impact of USDA crop production reports in corn andsoybean futures markets. The analysis is based on all corn and soybean production reportsreleased over 1970-2006. The empirical analysis compares the typical OLS eventstudy approach to the new Identification by...
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The Neoclassical theory of production establishes a dual relationship between the profit value function of a competitive firm and its underlying production technology. This relationship, usually referred to as the duality theory, has been widely used in empirical work to estimate production...
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Understanding the contribution of marketing to economic and social outcomes is fundamental to broadening the focus of marketing. The authors develop a comprehensive model that integrates the impact of service quality and service satisfaction on both economic and societal outcomes. The model is...
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Studies of productivity often ignore measurement error and fail to distinguish between exogenous and endogenous factors in adjusting for the environment. This failure may misguide managerial decisions on benchmarking, ranking, and remuneration. For example, common relative efficiency techniques...
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Semiparametric regression has become very popular in the field of Statistics over theyears. While on one hand more and more sophisticated models are being developed,on the other hand the resulting theory and estimation process has become more andmore involved. The main problems that are...
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measurement error for the Solow residual as a measure of TFP growth when the capital stock is measured with error and when … capacity utilization and depreciation are endogenous. Furthermore, it proposes two alternative measurements of TFP growth which … growth based on the properties of the Malmquist index. The fourth chapter introduces a new approach for identifying possible …
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