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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014
and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504519
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Does college education reduce small business failure?
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - 2014
and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459702
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Does College Education Reduce Small Business Failure?
Asoni, Andrea; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
and business ownership is accounted for by a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099536
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The housing stock, housing prices, and user costs: The roles of location, structure and unobserved quality
Halket, Jonathan; Nesheim, Lars; Oswald, Florian - 2020
theories of homeownership? Using the English Housing Survey, we estimate a selection model of the allocation of properties to … the owner-occupied and rental sectors. Structural characteristics and unobserved quality are important for selection …. Location is not. Accounting for selection is important for estimates of rent-to-price ratios and can explain some puzzling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621082
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Field of study, earnings, and self-selection
Kirkebøen, Lars J.; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2014 - This version: December 2014
correcting for selection bias and keeping the next-best alternatives as measured at the time of application fixed. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468732
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The Effect of Discretion on Procurement Performance
Spagnolo, Giancarlo - 2015
We run a regression discontinuity design analysis to document the causal effect of increasing buyers' discretion on procurement outcomes in a large database for public works in Italy. Works with a value above a given threshold have to be awarded through an open auction. Works below this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011864
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The housing stock, housing prices, and user costs : the roles of location, structure and unobserved quality
Halket, Jonathan; Nesheim, Lars; Oswald, Florian - 2020
theories of homeownership? Using the English Housing Survey, we estimate a selection model of the allocation of properties to … the owner-occupied and rental sectors. Structural characteristics and unobserved quality are important for selection …. Location is not. Accounting for selection is important for estimates of rent-to-price ratios and can explain some puzzling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159068
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Advances in Training Evaluation - Psychological, Educational, Economic, and Econometric Perspectives on the Kirkpatrick Model
Hinerasky, Christiane - Fachbereich für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, … - 2014
Research on the process of training evaluation has progressed in many independent fields. In our study, we combine the unique views on training, and training evaluation from the fields of psychology, education, economics, and econometrics. Psychology and education provide knowledge on how to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212352
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The informal sector wage gap: New evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292821
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Assessing the impact of credit ratings and economic performance on firm default
Bottazzi, Giulio; Grazzi, Marco; Secchi, Angelo; … - 2007
The study of firms' default has attracted wide interest among both practitioners and scholars. However, attention has often been limited to a relatively small set of financial variables. In this work, we try to increase the scope of analysis extending the investigation to other possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328637