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The good governance indicators of the millennium challenge account: How many dimensions are really being measured?

Knoll, Martin; Zloczysti, Petra - 2011

This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure...

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What money buys: Clients of street sex workers in the U.S.

Della Giusta, Marina; DiTommaso, Maria Laura; Shima, Isilda - 2006

An econometric model that explores the effect of personal characteristics and attitudes of clients on their demand for prostitution is estimated on data from a survey of clients of street sex workers in the US. The results reveal that clients of street sex workers in our sample have two...

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Tracing the Changing Measures of Unemployment in Dutch Unemployment Statistics 1900-1940

Rodenburg, Peter - 2001

In the period before the second World War, the Dutch Bureau of Statistics had developed two sets of indicators ofunemployment in the Netherlands. One was based on statistical data of unemployment insurance funds of tradeunions and the other one on statistical data of labour exchanges. This paper...

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Name-Based Estimators of Intergenerational Mobility

Santavirta, Torsten; Stuhler, Jan - 2024

Recent studies use names—first and surnames—to estimate intergenerational mobility in sources that lack direct family links. While generating novel evidence on intergenerational transmission processes, it remains unclear how different estimators compare and how reliable they are. This paper...

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Estimating trends in US income inequality using the current population survey: the importance of controlling for censoring

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2008

Using internal and public use March Current Population Survey data, we analyze trends in US income inequality (19752004). Using a multiple imputation approach where values for censored observations are imputed using draws from a Generalized Beta distribution of the Second Kind, we find that the...

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Assessing indexation-based Calvo inflation models

Dufour, Jean-Marie; Khalaf, Lynda; Kichian, Maral - 2009

Using identification-robust methods, the authors estimate and evaluate for Canada and the United States various classes of inflation equations based on generalized structural Calvo-type models. The models allow for different forms of frictions and vary in their assumptions regarding the type of...

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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Visualizing exploratory factor analysis models

Klinke, Sigbert; Wagner, Cornelia - 2008

Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) is an important tool in data analyses, particularly in social science. Usually four steps are carried out which contain an large number of options. One important option is the number of factors and the association of variables with a factor. Our tools aim to...

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A note on the model selection risk for ANOVA based adaptive forecasting of the EURIBOR swap term structure

Blaskowitz, Oliver J.; Herwartz, Helmut - 2008

The paper proposes a data driven adaptive model selection strategy. The selection crite- rion measures economic exante forecasting content by means of trading implied cash flows. Empirical evidence suggests that the proposed strategy is neither exposed to selection bias nor to the risk of...

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Generalized Measurement Invariance Tests with Application to Factor Analysis

Merkle, Edgar C.; Zeileis, Achim - 2011

The issue of measurement invariance commonly arises in factor-analytic contexts, with methods for assessment including … groups, group membership, and offending model parameters. In this paper, we construct tests of measurement invariance based … measurement invariance violations, and (2) identifying subgroups of individuals that violated measurement invariance based on a …

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