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Replication to assess statistical adequacy
Owen, P. Dorian - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-60, pp. 1-16
"Statistical adequacy" is an important prerequisite for securing reliable inference in empirical modelling. This paper argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are based on statistically adequate models, i.e., models...
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On the identification of the effect of education on health: A comment on Fonseca et al. (2020)
Albarran, Pedro; Hidalgo-Hidalgo, Marisa; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 4, pp. 649-661
In this note we revisit the paper by Fonseca et al. (Series 11: 83-103, 2020) who find that education has a positive … effect on health. They use several compulsory schooling reforms as instruments for education. Our objective is to replicate …
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Knowledge, Knowledge… Knowledge for My Economy
Freeman, Richard B. - In: KDI Journal of Economic Policy 37 (2015) 2, pp. 1-21
in the global market in higher education, in international research collaborations, and its close ties to the U.S. Korea … development; and that openness to the world of higher education and research is the best way to move forward and overcome the …
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Who gets a mammogram amongst European women aged 50-69 years?
Wuebker, Ansgar - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 6, pp. 1-13
, better education, having a partner, younger age and better health are associated with higher rates of receipt. The impact of …
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Hurdles and steps: Estimating demand for solar photovoltaics
Gillingham, Kenneth; Tsvetanov, Tsvetan - In: Quantitative Economics 10 (2019) 1, pp. 275-310
This paper estimates demand for residential solar photovoltaic (PV) systems using a new approach to address three empirical challenges that often arise with count data: excess zeros, unobserved heterogeneity, and endogeneity of price. Our results imply a price elasticity of demand for solar PV...
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Identification of average effects under magnitude and sign restrictions on confounding
Chalak, Karim - In: Quantitative Economics 10 (2019) 4, pp. 1619-1657
This paper studies measuring various average effects of X on Y in general structural systems with unobserved confounders U, a potential instrument Z, and a proxy W for U. We do not require X or Z to be exogenous given the covariates or W to be a perfect one-to-one mapping of U. We study the...
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Does microfinance program innovation reduce income inequality? Cross-country and panel data analysis
Miled, Kamel Bel Hadj; Younsi, Moheddine; Landolsi, Monia - In: Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-15
This paper uses cross-country and panel data set to test the significance of microfinance on income inequality reduction at the macro level for a sample of 57 developing countries for the periods 2000-2006 and 2007-2013. This study adopts panel data methodologies, such as ordinary least square...
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Grade retention and unobserved heterogeneity
Gary-Bobo, Robert; Goussé, Marion; Robin, Jean-Marc - In: Quantitative Economics 7 (2016) 3, pp. 781-820
We study the treatment effect of grade retention using a panel of French junior high-school students, taking unobserved heterogeneity and the endogeneity of grade repetitions into account. We specify a multistage model of human-capital accumulation with a finite number of types representing...
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The effect of education on teenage fertility: Causal evidence for Argentina
Alzúa, María Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 7, pp. 1-28
This is the first study exploring the causal effect of education on teenage fertility in Argentina. We exploit an … exogenous variation in education from the staggered implementation of the 1993 reform, which increased compulsory schooling from … 7 to 10 years. We find a negative overall impact of education on teenage fertility rates, which operates through two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012012124
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Compulsory schooling and returns to education: A re-examination
Van Huellen, Sophie; Qin, Duo - In: Econometrics 7 (2019) 3, pp. 1-20
This paper re-examines the instrumental variable (IV) approach to estimating returns to education by use of compulsory … overcome these flaws by carefully distinguishing returns to education from the treatment effect of CSL. We find relatively …
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