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simulation exercise presents evidence that the elimination of the spouse allowance can raise participation of wives at age 62 by …
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We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
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Markov decision processes. The resulting multivariate probit models are estimated using Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques. …
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This paper develops two methods for estimating the effect of schooling on achievement test scores that control for the endogeneity of schooling by postulating that both schooling and test scores are generated by a common unobserved latent ability. These methods are applied to data on schooling...
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This paper examines the role of peer effects in smoking behavior using data of middle and high school students in the United States. I present a random utility model that explicitly incorporates complementarity between individual and peer smokings. A Markov process model of smoking interactions...
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This paper examines the role of peer effects in smoking behavior using data of middle and high school students in the United States. I present a random utility model that explicitly incorporates complementarity between individual and peer smokings. A Markov process model of smoking interactions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001990751
by individuals are modeled as Markov decision processes. The resulting multivariate probit models are estimated using …
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discrete choice models. We construct and estimate a simplified dynamic structural model of education that captures some basic …
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