Search Results - subject:"Instrumental Variables."

Selective schools and academic achievement

Clark, Damon - 2007

In this paper I consider the impact of attending a selective high school in the UK. Students are assigned to these schools on the basis of a test taken in primary school and, using data on these assignment test scores for a particular district, I exploit this rule to estimate the causal effects...

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Africa's education enigma? The Nigerian story

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007

In the last two decades, the social and economic benefits of formal education in Sub-Saharan Africa have been debated. Anecdotal evidence points to low returns to education in Africa. Unfortunately, there is limited econometric evidence to support these claims at the micro level. In this study,...

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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea Maria - 2007

In Germany, the streaming of students into an academic or nonacademic track at age 10 can be revised at later stages of secondary education. To investigate the importance of such revisions, we use administrative data on the student population in the German state of Hessen to measure the...

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Corruption, privatisation and the distribution of income in Latin America

Rodriguez, Antonio; Ramlogan, Carlyn - 2007

This paper presents some new evidence on income inequality in Latin America over the period 1980-1999, examining in particular the relationship between corruption, privatisation and inequality. Using a panel data methodology, we find that a reduction in corruption is associated with a rise in...

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Aid effectiveness: Politics matters

Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - 2007

The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...

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Use of instrumental variables in the presence of heterogeneity and self-selection: An application in breast cancer patients

Basu, Anirban; Heckman, James J.; Navarro-Lozano, Salvador - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007

Instrumental variables methods (IV) are widely used in the health economics literature to adjust for hidden selection … the proper use of instrumental variables if treatment effects are heterogeneous across subjects and individuals select … instrumental variable analysis and alternative approaches using instrumental variables for estimating treatment effects for models …

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Is There Rent Sharing In Developing Countries? Matched-Panel Evidence from Brazil

Martins, Pedro; Esteves, Luiz Alberto - Departamento de Economia, Universidade Federal do Paraná - 2007

We provide evidence about the determinants of the wage structures of developing countries by examining the case of Brazil. Our specific question is whether Brazil’s dramatic income and wage differentials can be explained by the division of rents between firms and their employees, unlike in...

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PRODUCTION CONTRACTS AND FARM PRODUCTIVITY: EXAMINING THE LINK USING INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES

Key, Nigel D.; McBride, William D. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007

Estimating how production contracts affect farm productivity is difficult because the decision to use a contract is endogenous to other decisions affecting productivity. This study uses the local availability of production contracts as an instrument for whether a farm uses a contract in order to...

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Optimal Inference for Instrumental Variables Regression with non-Gaussian Errors

Cattaneo, Mathias D.; Crump, Richard K.; Jansson, Michael - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2007

This paper is concerned with inference on the coefficient on the endogenous regressor in a linear instrumental … variables model with a single endogenous regressor, nonrandom exogenous regressors and instruments, and i.i.d. errors whose …

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Persistence of the School Entry Age Effect in a System of Flexible Tracking

Puhani, Patrick A.; Weber, Andrea M. - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Leibniz … - 2007

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