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Patterns of consent: evidence from a general household survey

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Cappellari, Lorenzo; Lynn, Peter; … - 2005

We analyse consent patterns and consent bias in the context of a large general household survey, the ?Improving survey … measurement of income and employment? (ISMIE) survey, also addressing issues that arise when there are multiple consent questions … are biases in consent to data linkage with benefit and tax credit administrative records held by the Department for Work …

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Can p-values be meaningfully interpreted without random sampling?

Hirschauer, Norbert; Grüner, Sven; Mußhoff, Oliver; … - In: Statistics Surveys 14 (2020), pp. 71-91

Besides the inferential errors that abound in the interpretation of p-values, the probabilistic pre-conditions (i.e. random sampling or equivalent) for using them at all are not often met by observational studies in the social sciences. This paper systematizes different sampling designs and...

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Star Wars: The empirics strike back

Brodeur, Abel; Lé, Mathias; Sangnier, Marc; … - 2013

Journals favor rejection of the null hypothesis. This selection upon tests may distort the behavior of researchers. Using 50,000 tests published between 2005 and 2011 in the AER, JPE, and QJE, we identify a residual in the distribution of tests that cannot be explained by selection. The...

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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets

Launov, Andrey; Günther, Isabel - 2006

It has recently been argued that the informal sector in developing countries shows a dual structure, with part of the informal sector being competitive to the formal sector and part of the informal sector being the result of market segmentation. We formulate an econometric model to test this...

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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets

Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - 2006

It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...

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Is Privatization Working in Ukraine? New Estimates from Comprehensive Manufacturing Firm Data, 1989-2013

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Shpak, Solomiya; … - 2015

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a long panel on all initially state-owned manufacturing firms in Ukraine. The large size and length of the time series in the data permit us to track the privatization process and to...

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Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?

Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke; Osterfeld, Marius - 2015

This paper examines the role of the sociocultural background of students for choosing STEM fields in university. We combine rich survey data on university graduates in Switzerland with municipality level information from the census as well as nationwide elections and referenda to characterize a...

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Are Sociocultural Factors Important for Studying a Science University Major?

Grossmann, Volker; Osikominu, Aderonke; Osterfeld, Marius - 2015

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FTA effects on agricultural trade with matching approaches

Lee, GaSeul; Lim, Song Soo - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-43, pp. 1-26

While the trade effect of free trade agreements (FTAs) is a global issue, little research has examined the economic effects of trade liberalization on agricultural products with robust empirical methods. In this study, propensity score matching for controlling selection bias is used to examine...

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Quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century

Blum, Matthias; Colvin, Christopher L.; McAtackney, Laura; … - 2015

Geary and Stark find that Ireland´s Post-Famine per capita GDP converged with British levels, and that this convergence was due to TFP growth rather than mass emigration. We devise new long-run measurements of human capital accumulation in Ireland in order to facilitate an assessment of sources...

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