This study examines high school effects on the labor market success of young adults, above and beyond individual and family characteristics. We employ data from two longitudinal, nationally probability samples: the National Longitudinal Study and the High School and Beyond study and the 5th and...

In this spirited and provocative book, Edward Leamer turns an examination of the Heckscher–Ohlin framework for global competition into an opportunity to consider the craft of economics: what economists do, what they should do, and what they shouldn’t do. Claiming “a lifetime relationship...

En este capítulo se presentan los procedimientos clásicos para evaluar y analizar el comportamiento aleatorio de las variables.

En este capítulo, se presentan algunos conceptos básicos que son necesarios para comprender la estadística y a los cuales se hará referencia constante en los capítulos posteriores.

El presente capítulo está dirigido al estudio de las medidas de tendencia que se usan con mayor frecuencia, es decir, el promedio aritmético, la media aritmética ponderada, la mediana, la moda, entre otros.

En el presente capítulo, se proporcionan algunos procedimientos para la clasificación, la tabulación y la presentación de datos. Estos procedimientos conducen a la formación de cuadros o tablas de frecuencias y a representaciones gráficas.

This paper is a general reflection on the major challenges facing econometrics in the future, not only in terms of research directions but also with respect to the method of teaching the science and its value for the society as a whole.

W.B. Reddaway has been a highly influential figure in Cambridge economics during the second half of the 20th Century. His method and style of doing economics - called the Reddaway-type economics - were quite distinct. The present paper explains Reddaway's methodology by examining his most...

The authors show how the work of Nobel Laureates in economics can enhance student understanding and bring them up to date on topics such as probability, uncertainty and decision theory, hypothesis testing, regression to the mean, instrumental variable techniques, discrete choice modeling, and...

En el siguiente capítulo se estudia los números índices y los beneficios de utilizar estos indicadores para cuantificar cambios ocurridos en alguna variable.