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Problems of sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature: A theoretical and econometric analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in … the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear … as crucial components in development economics and related fields. The historical heights literature often relies on …
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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - 2012
The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...
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A Joint Top Income and Wealth Distribution
Zhu, Junyi; Steiner, Viktor - 2020
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions. We leverage...
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424473
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The Effects of Gaps and Disparities on Economic Growth. A Study of 10 Former Socialist Countries from the CEE, Members of the EU
Pescu (Beca), Marușa; Ștefan (Barabaș), Camelia - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 592-610
The goal of this research paper is to empirically assess the potential effects of macroeconomic determinants of economic growth and to determine the impact of income inequality on economic growth in the long-run in ten former socialist countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) which are...
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Testing for normality in truncated anthropometric samples
Fidalgo, Antonio - 2018
Anthropometric historical analysis depends on the assumption that human characteristics—such as height—are normally distributed. I propose and evaluate a metric entropy, based on nonparametrically estimated densities, as a statistic for a consistent test of normality. My first test applies...
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A panel data investigation of real exchange rate misalignment and growth
MacDonald, Ronald; Vieira, Flávio - 2010
The paper investigates the role of real exchange rate misalignment on long-run growth for a set of ninety countries using time series data from 1980 to 2004. We first estimate a panel data model (using fixed and random effects) for the real exchange rate, with different model specifications, in...
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Is the nutritional status of males and females equally affected by economic growth? Evidence from Vietnam in the 1990s
Molini, Vasco; Nubé, Maarten - 2007
While the nutritional status of individuals became in recent years a central issue in development economics, relevant and reliable data are often scarce. Available living standard surveys provide a wide set of information about household food consumption and calorie intake. Yet, due to the focus...
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On the estimation of distributional household wealth: Addressing under-reporting via optimization problems with invariant Gini coefficient
Engel, Janina; Ohlwerter, Dennis; Scherer, Matthias - 2023
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial stability purposes. The dataset shows, however, inconsistencies with National Account (NtlA) statistics, as the aggregated HFCS micro data do usually not match the...
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Are sociocultural factors important for studying a science university major?
Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke; Osterfeld, Marius - 2015
This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality level information from the census as well as nationwide elections and referenda to characterize a...
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