We argue that frequentist hypothesis testing - the dominant statistical evaluation paradigm in empirical research - is fundamentally unsuited for analysis of the nonexperimental data prevalent in economics and other social sciences. Frequentist tests comprise incompatible repeated sampling...

This study investigates the properties of a self-normalization inferential method in cointegrating regressions. The test statistic is constructed using recursive integrated modified ordinary least squares estimators. The proposed test does not involve a long-run variance estimator, and the test...

When comparing poverty across distributions, an analyst must select a poverty line to identify the poor, an equivalence scale to compare individuals from households of different compositions and sizes, and a poverty index to aggregate individual deprivation into an index of total poverty. A...