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Decomposing Socioeconomic Inequality for Binary Health Outcomes : An Improved Estimation that Does not Vary by Choice of Reference Group
Yiengprugsawan, Vasoontara; Lim, Lynette L. Y.; … - 2014
BACKGROUND: Decomposition of concentration indices yields useful information regarding the relative importance of various determinants of inequitable health outcomes. But the two estimation approaches to decomposition in current use are not suitable for binary outcomes. FINDINGS: The paper...
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Dependence of spatial effects on the level of regional aggregation, weights matrix, and estimation method
Bukina, Tatiana V.; Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; … - 2015
regional aggregation (Jacobs-Crisioni et al., 2014; Kang et al., 2014, Baltagi, Li, 2014). Currently, hierarchical models can … 2011years are used. We also include two levels of data aggregation: into 12 economic regions and into 8 federal districts … regional aggregation. H2: The estimation results of spatial-econometric models depend on the choice of the method of estimation …
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Central limit theorems for aggregate efficiency
Simar, Léopold; Zelenyuk, Valentin - In: Operations research 66 (2018) 1, pp. 137-149
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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 A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744186
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Specification and Estimation of Rating Scale Models - With an Application to the Determinants of Life Satisfaction
Studer, Raphael - 2011
Rating variables indicate the extent to which a quality is present, or absent, in a unit of observation. In this paper, we discuss a class of non-linear regression models for rating dependent variables and their estimation by parametric and semi-parametric methods. An application to life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124969
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Problems of Sample-Selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature : A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082366
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Specification and Estimation of Rating Scale Models - With an Application to the Determinants of Life Satisfaction
Studer, Raphael; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2011
This article proposes a new class of rating scale models, which merges advantages and overcomes shortcomings of the traditional linear and ordered latent regression models. Both parametric and semi-parametric estimation is considered. The insights of an empirical application to satisfaction data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183208
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A New Paradigm : A Joint Test of Structural and Correlation Parameters in Instrumental Variables Regression When Perfect Exogeneity is Violated
Caner, Mehmet; Morrill, Melinda Sandler - 2009
Currently, the commonly employed instrumental variables strategy relies on the knife-edge assumption of perfect exogeneity for valid inference. To make reliable inferences on the structural parameters under violations of exogeneity one must know the true correlation between the structural error...
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CapMod : A Simulated Society to Evaluate Empirical Estimators of Capabilities
Chávez-Juárez, Florian; Krishnakumar, Jaya - 2019
This article introduces an innovative approach to the validation of empirical methods aiming at estimating capabilities. Validating these empirical methods is difficult because capabilities are not directly observable. We propose a computational model to generate data from a simulated society,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014108528
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The Impact of Effect Size Heterogeneity on Meta-Analysis: A Monte Carlo Experiment
Koetse, Mark J.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, … - 2007
In this paper we use Monte Carlo simulation to investigate the impact of effect size heterogeneity on the results of a meta-analysis. Specifically, we address the small sample behaviour of the OLS, the fixed effects regression and the mixed effects meta-estimators under three alternative...
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