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Fertility, agricultural labor supply, and production: Instrumental variable evidence from Uganda:

Van Campenhout, Bjorn - International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) - 2014

Human fertility is likely to affect agricultural production through its effect on the supply of agricultural labor. Using the fact that in traditional, patriarchal societies sons are often preferred to daughters, we isolated exogenous variation in the number of children born to a mother and...

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The Long-Term Impact of Inequality on Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

Gutierrez-Romero, Roxana; Errico, Luciana Méndez - Departament d'Economia Aplicada, Universitat Autònoma … - 2015

We assess the extent to which historical levels of inequality affect the likelihood of businesses being created, surviving and of these creating jobs overtime. To this end, we build a pseudo-panel of entrepreneurs across 48 countries using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Survey over...

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Tightening bounds in triangular systems

Kédagni, Désiré; Mourifié, Ismael - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 3, pp. 455-458

This note discusses partial identification in a nonparametric triangular system with discrete endogenous regressors and nonseparable errors. Recently, Jun et al. (2011, JPX) provide bounds on the structural function evaluated at particular values using exclusion, exogeneity and rank conditions....

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Late life transitions and social networks: The case of retirement

Fletcher, Jason M. - In: Economics Letters 125 (2014) 3, pp. 459-462

I use SHARE social networks data from 16 countries to examine retirement impacts on social networks. I extend the literature by using across-country differences in pension eligibility ages as instruments to show limited impacts of retirement on social network outcomes.

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Compulsory schooling, education, depression and memory: New evidence from SHARELIFE

Crespo, Laura; López-Noval, Borja; Mira, Pedro - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 36-46

In this paper we provide new evidence on the causal effect of education on adult depression and cognition. We use SHARE data and schooling reforms in several European countries as instruments for educational attainment. We find that an extra year of education has a large and significant...

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Beliefs and actions in the trust game: Creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect

Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - In: Games and Economic Behavior 88 (2014) C, pp. 298-309

other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments asks participants to state beliefs explicitly but little … is known about the causal relation between beliefs and actions. This paper discusses the possibility of creating …. The procedure allows detecting causal links from beliefs to actions under plausible assumptions. The IV-estimated effect …

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The impact of air pollution on hospital admissions: Evidence from Italy

Lagravinese, R.; Moscone, F.; Tosetti, E.; Lee, H. - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 49 (2014) C, pp. 278-285

In this paper we study the impact of air pollution on hospital admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for 103 Italian provinces, over the period from 2004 to 2009. We use information on annual mean concentrations of carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter, and ozone...

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Testing Local Average Treatment Effect Assumptions

Mourifie, Ismael; Wan, Yuanyuan - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2014

In this paper, we discuss the key conditions for the identification and estimation of the local average treatment effect (LATE, Imbens and Angrist, 1994): the valid instrument assumption (LI) and the monotonicity assumption (LM). We show that the joint assumptions of LI and LM have a testable...

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Returns to Schooling for Urban Residents and Migrants in China: New IV Estimates and a Comprehensive Investigation

SAKELLARIOU, Chris; ZHENG, Fang - Division of Economics, Nanyang Technological University - 2014

This paper uses a new dataset, the 2009 Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) to estimate returns to schooling in China using an instrumental variable (IV) methodology. After identifying a set of instruments, we conduct comprehensive validity and relevance testing of different combinations of...

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Estimating the production function of university students

Soo, K T - Department of Economics, Management School - 2009

This paper estimates the production function for university students in English universities. Taking as the output the quality of a university degree and the dropout rate, we use as inputs teaching quality and quantity, entry qualifications, and the effort level. Our results uncover new findings...

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