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(Don't) Walk This Way: The Econometrics of Crosswalks
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2024
units are not nested, a crosswalk specifying how the units from one data source are allocated to the units of the other is … attention of econometricians. Here, I show that use of an incorrect crosswalk induces measurement error that is necessarily … nonclassical and can be consequential. I discuss and illustrate the ramifications of using a flawed crosswalk, present two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015061988
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Ranking Leading Econometrics Journals using Citations Data from ISI and RePEc
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2013
econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326514
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The 1-2-3 Toolbox of Mainstream Economics: Promising Everything, Delivering Nothing
Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Real-World Economics Review (2021) 98, pp. 23-48
We write this essay for both lay readers and scientists, though mainstream economists are welcome to enjoy it too. Our subject is the basic toolbox of mainstream economics. The most important tools in this box are demand, supply and equilibrium. All mainstream economists – as well as many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012703161
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Ranking leading econometrics journals using citations data from ISI and RePEc
Chang, Chia-lin; McAleer, Michael - In: Econometrics 1 (2013) 3, pp. 217-235
econometrics journals taken from the Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science (ISI) Category of Economics, using citations data from ISI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421304
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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party: A Reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy W.; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
this type works best when it incorporates careful econometrics, serious consideration of underlying mechanisms (including … formal theory), and, most important, scrupulous attention to history and to the limitations of historical data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470353
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Political Competition: How to Measure Party Strategy in Direct Voter Communication using Social Media Data?
Sturm, Silke - 2019
Political competition, party strategy and communication in the era of social media are growing issues. Due to the increasing social media presence of parties and voters alike, direct communication is more important for party competition. This paper aims to improve the methodological approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955730
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Bibliometric Rankings of Journals based on the Thomson Reuters Citations Database
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2015
Virtually all rankings of journals are based on citations, including self citations by journals and individual academics. The gold standard for bibliometric rankings based on citations data is the widely-used Thomson Reuters Web of Science (2014) citations database, which publishes, among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288398
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Robust Ranking of Journal Quality: An Application to Economics
Chang, Chia-Lin; Maasoumi, Esfandiar; McAleer, Michael - 2013
The paper focuses on the robustness of rankings of academic journal quality and research impact in general, and in Economics, in particular, based on the widely-used Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science citations database (ISI). The paper analyses 299 leading international journals in Economics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326303
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What Do Experts Know About Forecasting Journal Quality? A Comparison with ISI Research Impact in Finance
Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael - 2013
Experts possess knowledge and information that are not publicly available. The paper is concerned with forecasting academic journal quality and research impact using a survey of international experts from a national project on ranking academic finance journals in Taiwan. A comparison is made...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326447
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Empirical methods for the law
Engel, Christoph - 2017
To their credit, empirical legal scholars try to live up to the highest methodological standards from the social sciences. But these standards do not always match the legal research question. This paper focuses on normative legal argument based on empirical evidence. Whether there is a normative...
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