In this paper I investigate the retirement-consumption puzzle in Italy for the period 2010-2016, using SHIW data. In order to address the endogeneity of the retirement decision, I estimate the effect of retirement by exploiting the exogeneity of pension eligibility in an instrumental variable...

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK -- Part I. Preliminaries -- Chapter 1. Questions about Questions -- Chapter 2. The Experimental Ideal -- Part II. The Core -- Chapter 3. Making Regression Make Sense -- Chapter 4. Instrumental...

This volume, edited by Jeffrey Racine, Liangjun Su, and Aman Ullah, contains the latest research on nonparametric and semiparametric econometrics and statistics. Chapters by leading international econometricians and statisticians highlight the interface between econometrics and statistical...

This study investigates the heterogeneous effects on convergence of energy poverty across the 28 countries in the European Union from 2006 to 2018. Unlike the existing research on convergence, which is mainly based on mean estimators, the Method of Moments Quantile Regression considers quantile...