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Human capital investment in the presence of unemployment: application to university enrolment in Spain: SKOPE Research Paper No. 12, August 2000
Fernández, Rosa M.; Shioji, Etsuro - 2000
This paper explores the effects of unemployment on the school enrolment decisions. A few studies that have taken up this issue in the past have produced results that are seemingly contradictory with each other. We build a model of the enrolment decision that is capable of explaining these...
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"Women's labour market participation interacting with macroeconomic growth and family policies"
Luci, Angela Stefanie - 2009
's, and especially mothers' labour market participation are necessary not only in developing but also in industrialised … policy instruments risks discouraging mothers' labour supply. Hence, it is essential to create a set of coherent family … policy instruments that manage to simultaneously prevent families from income poverty while encouraging women's employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482302
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Essays on dynamic economies with frictions.
Slavik, Ctirad - 2010
University of Minnesot Ph.D. dissertation. July 2010. Major: Economics. Advisor: Larry E. Jones and Narayana R. Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 99 pages, appendices A-B.
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Measuring the Burden of Disease, the Structure of Income, and Returns to Education in Rural West Africa
Würthwein, Ralph - 2002
Die vorliegende Dissertation will einen Beitrag zur Messung von Krankheitsbelastung, Einkommensstruktur und Ausbildungsrenditen im ländlichen Westafrika leisten. Ihr Forschungsgegenstand ist die Erhebung und Analyse von Mortalitäts-, Morbiditäts- und sozio-ökonomischen Daten im...
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CAUSAL EFFECT ESTIMATION UNDER LINEAR AND LOG-LINEAR STRUCTURAL NESTED MEAN MODELS IN THE PRESENCE OF UNMEASURED CONFOUNDING
Wang, Chia-Hao - 2010
In randomized clinical trials where the effects of post-randomization factors are of interest, the standard regression analyses are biased due to unmeasured confounding. The instrumental variables (IV; Angrist et al., 1996) and G-estimation procedures under structural nested mean models (SNMMs;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009439201
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Production Contracts and Farm Business Growth and Survival
Key, Nigel D. - 2010
In recent decades there has been a substantial increase in the scale of production and the use of production contracts in the hog sector. This paper explores empirically whether these two phenomena are related by examining whether the use of production contracts has allowed finish hog operations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446078
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U.S. Alcohol Consumption: Tax Instrumental Variables in Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand (QUAIDS)System
Jithitikulchai, Theepakorn - 2011
Replaced with revised version of poster 08/30/11.
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Understanding the relationship between founder-CEOs and firm performance
Adams, Renee; Heitor, Almeida; Ferreira, Daniel - 2009
We use instrumental variables methods to disentangle the effect of founder–CEOs on performance from the effect of performance on founder–CEO status. Our instruments for founder–CEO status are the proportion of the firm's founders that are dead and the number of people who founded the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448159
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Wohlstand und Gesundheit : neuere empirische Resultate und theoretische Erklärungsversuche
Hupfeld, Stefan - 2004
Diese Arbeit umfasst eine Darstellung des Grossman-Modells und der Akkumulation von Gesundheitskapital. Es werden ältere empirische Untersuchungen (Wagstaff) vorgestellt und aus methodischer Sicht kritisiert, verbesserte ökonometrische Methoden vorgeschlagen und deren Anwendung in aktuellen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471616
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Accrual Noise Ratio as a Measure of Accrual Reliability
Njoroge, Kenneth - 2009
I develop an empirical model that estimates a firm-specific accrual noise ratio (ANR), an operational and statistically grounded measure of accrual reliability, and test the measure's construct validity. The model allows accrual reliability to vary across firms, which is particularly important...
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