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We replicate a flagship randomised control trial carried out in rural Morocco that showed substantial and significant impacts of microcredit on the assets, the outputs, the expenses and the profits of self-employment activities. The original results rely primarily on trimming, which is the...
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, slaves, and prisoners. -- self-selection ; selection bias ; heights ; anthropometrics ; standards of living …
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(the unrestricted weighted least squares) that adjusts the degrees of freedom and thereby reduces small-sample bias to …, whether or not there is publication selection bias, However, publication selection bias remains a ubiquitous source of bias … eradicates publication selection bias, PET-PEESE keeps the rate of false positives (i.e., type I errors) within their nominal …
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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...
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-individual estimators in short panels, we develop bias corrections. These corrections are based on higher-order asymptotic expansions of the … estimators have asymptotic biases of the same order as their asymptotic standard deviations. The bias corrections remove the bias …
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In longitudinal studies, analysis can be based on any one of a large number of wavecombinations. However, only one set of non-response weights (often based on respondents from all waves up to the latest) is typically offered on public use data files. We refer to this as a single weighting...
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