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Does Charter School Attendance Improve Test Scores?: Comments and Reactions on the Arizona Achievement Study
Nelson, Christopher; Hollenbeck, Kevin - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001
evaluation design with type of school (charter or traditional) attended in a base year as the rows and type of school in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005101978
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Substitution Bias and External Validity: Why an Innovative Anti-poverty Program Showed no Net Impact
Morduch, Jonathan; Ravi, Shamika; Bauchet, Jonathan - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2013
compelling. The analysis highlights the roles of substitution bias and dropout bias in shaping evaluation results and delimiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011015025
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Evaluation of the goodness of fit of new statistical size distributions with consideration of accurate income inequality estimation
Okamoto, Masato - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2969-2982
evaluation, this mixture model outperforms all of the single PIDMs in the sense that it is better fitted according to at least in …
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Improving precision in cost-effectiveness analysis using copulas.
Quinn, Casey - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007
A copula is best described, as in Joe (1997), as a multivariate distribution function that is used to bind each marginal distribution function to form the joint. The copula parameterises the dependence between the margins, while the parameters of each marginal distribution function can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328375
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Earnings efficiency and poverty dominance analysis: a spatial approach
Chattopadhyay, Somnath - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 3, pp. 2298-2318
The paper estimates an earnings frontier by the method of Corrected Ordinary Least Squares (COLS) and categorizes households as efficient or inefficient based on some benchmark efficiency score and the estimated frontier. The spatial distribution of the poor and non poor households is then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220133
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Evaluating the Differential Effects of Alternative Welfare-to-Work Training Components: A Re-Analysis of the California GAIN Program
Hotz, V. Joseph; Imbens, Guido; Klerman, Jacob A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
effects of components of training programs. We show how data from a multi-site experimental evaluation in which subjects are … validity of using the latter methods. We use these methods and tests to re-analyze data from the MDRC Evaluation of California … data from this experimental evaluation can be used in conjunction with non-experimental methods to estimate such effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005714462
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Attitudes and attributes: a field experiment with public officials and transfer recipients In Colombia
Cárdenas, Juan Camilo; Sethi, Rajiv - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2007
Any system of transfer payments must be administered by officials with some degree of discretionary power over the manner in which funds are allocated. Attitudes of such officials regarding the worthiness of various recipients therefore have implications for resource allocation. Using a sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478907
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La evolución de la distribución personal de la renta en España (1973-2000). Con parámetros del modelo de Dagum
García Pérez, Carmelo; Barroso, Callealta; Javier, … - In: El Trimestre Económico LXXIII (4) (2006) 292, pp. 783-807
In this paper, changes in the Spanish personal income distribution along the period 1973-2000 are studied using the parameter estimations of the Dagum model for the state and its autonomous communities. With this aim, in the first place, a theoretical approach to the parameters of Dagum model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004981642
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What Mean Impacts Miss: Distributional Effects of Welfare Reform Experiments
Bitler, Marianne P.; Gelbach, Jonah B.; Hoynes, Hilary … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers … quantile treatment effects exhibit the substantial heterogeneity predicted by labor supply theory. Thus mean impacts miss a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061537
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L'approccio statistico delle disuguaglianze sociali
Bihr, Alain - Dipartimento di Scienze Aziendali, Economiche e Metodi … - 2003
During the 90’s different academic works have pointed to an increase of social inequalities in France. The first part of the following paper examines the question through a synthesis of the different statistical data and analysis published on the matter since the beginning of the 80’s. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005063117