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Problems of sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature: A theoretical and econometric analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in … the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear … as crucial components in development economics and related fields. The historical heights literature often relies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369066
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Problems of sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature : a theoretical and econometric analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas A. - 2013
, slaves, and prisoners. -- self-selection ; selection bias ; heights ; anthropometrics ; standards of living …An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in … the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009744186
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Problems of Sample-Selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature : A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in … the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear … as crucial components in development economics and related fields. The historical heights literature often relies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082366
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Problems of Sample-Selection Bias in the Historical Heights Literature: A Theoretical and Econometric Analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy W.; Mroz, Thomas A. - Economics Department, Yale University - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in … the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear … as crucial components in development economics and related fields. The historical heights literature often relies on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706051
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Human development in Africa: A long-run perspective
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 2, pp. 179-204
Long-run trends in Africa's wellbeing are provided on the basis of a new index of human development, alternative to the UNDP's HDI. A long-run improvement in African human development is found that it falls short of those experienced in other developing regions. A closer look at Africa reveals...
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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - 2012
The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308261
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Selection Bias in Innovation Studies. A Simple Test
Rassenfosse, Gaétan de; Schoen, Anja; Wastyn, Annelies - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2013
The study of the innovative output of organizations often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all organizations file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using novel datasets of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858821
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Selection bias in innovation studies: A simple test
De Rassenfosse, Gaétan; Wastyn, Annelies - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
The study of the innovative output of firms often relies on a count of patents filed at one single office of reference such as the European Patent Office (EPO). Yet, not all firms file their patents at the EPO, raising the specter of a selection bias. Using a novel dataset of the whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957647
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A Joint Top Income and Wealth Distribution
Zhu, Junyi; Steiner, Viktor - 2020
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions. We leverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287939
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424473