This paper is the first systematic attempt to investigate the factors affecting time persistence in remittance …-Economic Panel (SOEP) we apply a wide variety of discrete choice (static and dynamic) panel models and show that persistence occurs …

individual heterogeneity in explaining the persistence of innovation. …

This study analyses the persistence and true state dependence of overqualification, i.e. a mismatch between workers … persistence can be attributed to a true state dependence effect. Unobserved factors are found to be the main driver of the high … persistence of overqualification. In particular, selection into initial overqualification at the start of the career is of high …

Welfare persistence is estimated in and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households. This is done within … heterogeneity. Three different types of persistence are controlled for in terms of observed and unobserved heterogeneity, serial …

We analyze persistence in marijuana consumption utilizing data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey … of Youth (NLSY97). We allow for three sources of persistence: pure state dependence, time invariant unobserved … heterogeneity and persistence in idiosyncratic, time-varying shocks. We also consider intensity of consumption based on days of use …