We consider the situation in which there are multiple proxies for one unobserved explanatory variable in a linear regression and provide a procedure by which the coefficient of interest can be extracted "post hoc" from a multiple regression in which all the proxies are used simultaneously. This...

We present a test of the hypothesis that a subset of the regressors are all proxying for the same latent variable. This issue will be of interest in cases where there are several correlated measures of elusive concepts such as misgovernance or corruption; in analyses where key variables such as...

Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one...

We present a test of the hypothesis that a subset of the regressors are all proxying for the same latent variable. This issue will be of interest in cases where there are several correlated measures of elusive concepts such as misgovernance or corruption; in analyses where key variables such as...

We show how to estimate kernel density functions of distributions in which some of the responses are provided in brackets, by inverse probability weighting. We consider two cases, one where the data are CAR and where the data are not CAR. We show how the selection probabilities can be estimated...

South Africa’s transition to democracy in 1994 engendered expectations of rapid changes in racial and gender disparities in wages. Twenty years after the transition there are strong disagreements about whether there have been gains and how these have been distributed. In particular there are...