Search Results - subject:"Instrumental Variables."

Have you eaten? : the long-run impact of the Great Leap Famine on recent trade

Li, Zilong; Chen, Xi; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2024

This paper estimates the long-run transmission of the Great Leap Famine (1959-61) to the current trade of Chinese provinces. Based on the provincial dispersion of famine severity, we find that provinces more severely affected by the famine have smaller food exports compared to non-food exports,...

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The determinants of farm income variability: Evidence from Estonia

Aleksandrova, Olha; Azadi, Hossein; Värnik, Rando; … - In: German Journal of Agricultural Economics (GJAE) 73 (2024) 3, pp. 1-26

Farm income is a policy-relevant proxy for farm households' viability. Volatile income levels reduce the well-being of farmers and decrease their incentives to produce, invest, and innovate. This article provides a comprehensive analysis of the associations between agricultural subsidies, farm...

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Inference on time-invariant variables using panel data : a pretest estimator

Chatelain, Jean-Bernard; Ralf, Kirsten - 2018

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A comparison of robust methods for Mendelian randomization using multiple genetic variants

Bao, Yanchun; Clarke, Paul; Smart, Melissa C; Kumari, Meena - 2018

using multiple genetic variants as instrumental variables. Our principal focus, however, is to assess the "some invalid some …We report the results of a Mendelian randomization study in which multiple genetic variants are used as instrumental … variables to estimate the causal effect of body mass index on personal income in the presence of unobserved confounding. The …

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Decentralization estimators for instrumental variable quantile regression models

Kaido, Hiroaki; Wüthrich, Kaspar - 2018

The instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) model of Chernozhukov and Hansen (2005, 2006) is a flexible and powerful tool for evaluating the impact of endogenous covariates on the whole distribution of the outcome of interest. Estimation, however, is computationally burdensome because...

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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article finds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...

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Review of the banking sector profit persistence

Abel, Sanderson; Hlalefang, Khobai; Le Roux, Pierre; … - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 8 (2018) 1, pp. 54-63

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Does education affect attitudes towards immigration? : evidence from Germany

Margaryan, Shushanik; Paul, Annemarie; Siedler, Thomas - 2018

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting the staggered implementation of a compulsory schooling reform in West Germany, this article ﬁnds that an additional year of schooling lowers the probability of being very concerned about immigration to Germany by around six...

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Replication to assess statistical adequacy

Owen, Dorian - 2018

"Statistical adequacy" is an important prerequisite for securing reliable inference in empirical modelling. This paper argues for more emphasis on replication that specifically assesses whether the results reported in empirical studies are based on statistically adequate models, i.e., models...

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Naturalization and labor market performance of immigrants in Germany

Riphahn, Regina T.; Saif, Salwan - 2018

Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...

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