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Education and entrepreneurial choice : an instrumental variables analysis
Block, Jörn; Hoogerheide, Lennart; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2010 - Current version: November 2010
Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence … US. Theeffect of education on the decision to become self-employed is found to be strongly positive,much higher than the … estimated effect in case no instrumental variables are used. That is, thehigher the respondent's level of education, the greater …
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Identification, instruments, omitted variables, and rudimentary models : fallacies in the "experimental approach" to econometrics
Biørn, Erik - 2017
Since identification, instrumental variables and variables exclusion, core concepts in econometrics, are entwined, several questions arise: How is identification related to the existence of IVs? How are identification criteria related to omitted variables? Is omission/inclusion of variables from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011779245
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Instrumental Variables with Unordered Treatments : Theory and Evidence from Returns to Fields of Study
Heinesen, Eskil; Hvid, Christian; Kirkebøen, Lars J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We revisit the identification argument of Kirkeboen et al. (2016) who showed how one may combine instruments for multiple unordered treatments with information about individuals' ranking of these treatments to achieve identification while allowing for both observed and unobserved heterogeneity...
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Instrumental variables and causal mechanisms : unpacking the effect of trade on workers and voters
Dippel, Christian; Gold, Robert; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2017
This paper shows that import exposure affects voting behavior because it affects local labor markets. We develop a new framework for mediation analysis where one instrumental variable is sufficient to identify three causal effects. Using German data from 1987-2009, we find that import exposure...
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Wanna get away? : RD identification away from the cutoff
Angrist, Joshua D.; Rokkanen, Miikka - 2013
In the canonical regression discontinuity (RD) design for applicants who face an award or admissions cutoff, causal effects are nonparametrically identified for those near the cutoff. The effect of treatment on inframarginal applicants is also of interest, but identification of such effects...
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Determinants of private tutoring demand in rural india
Agrawal, Ankush; Gupta, Parul; Mondal, Debasis - In: The journal of development studies 60 (2024) 1, pp. 83-107
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Natural resource windfalls in nonproducing areas
Ome, Alejandro; Pérez, Javier - 2022
We study the impact of natural resource royalties on educational outcomes in Colombia. We analyze a reform enacted in 2012 that made the distribution of these royalties more equitable. Before the reform, most royalties were assigned to the regions where the natural resources were exploited; with...
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Bayesian Analysis of Instrumental Variable Models: Acceptance-Rejection within Direct Monte Carlo
Zellner, Arnold (posthumously); Ando, Tomohiro; … - 2012
settler mortality instrument of Acemoglu et al. (2001) and father's education's instrument used by Hoogerheide et al. (2012a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326354
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Bayesian analysis of instrumental variable models: The potential of direct Monte Carlo
Zellner, Arnold; Ando, Tomohiro; Basturk, Nalan; … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326499
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Instrumental Variables, Errors in Variables, and Simultaneous Equations Models: Applicability and Limitations of Direct Monte Carlo
Zellner, Arnold; Ando, Tomohiro; Basturk, Nalan; … - 2011
A Direct Monte Carlo (DMC) approach is introduced for posterior simulation in theInstrumental Variables (IV) model with one possibly endogenous regressor, multipleinstruments and Gaussian errors under a flat prior. This DMC method can also beapplied in an IV model (with one or multiple...
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