Search Results - subject:"discrete factor approximation"

The impacts of transition to middle school on student cognitive, non-cognitive and perceptual developments : evidence from China

Anderson, Kathryn H.; Gong, Xue; Hong, Kai; Zhang, Xi - In: Education economics 28 (2020) 4, pp. 384-402

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Immigrant-Native Differences in Earnings Mobility Processes

Ahmad, Nisar; Esmaeilzadeh, Rayhaneh; J?rgen Hansen - In: Review of Economics & Finance 4 (2014) Feburary, pp. 13-32

mobility processes. The paper employs a dynamic multinomial logit model with discrete factor approximation for the …

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Immigrant-Native Differences in Earnings Mobility Processes: Evidence from Canadian and Danish Data

Ahmad, Nisar; Esmaeilzadeh, Rayhaneh - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2009

mobility processes. The paper employs a dynamic multinomial logit model with discrete factor approximation for the …

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Immigrant-native differences in earnings mobility processes

Ahmad, Nisar; Esmaeilzadeh, Rayhaneh; Hansen, Jörgen - In: Review of economics & finance (2014) 1, pp. 13-32

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Alcohol use and pregnancies among youth: Evidence from a semi-parametric approach

Cintina, Inna - University of Hawai'i Economic Research Organization … - 2011

Despite a well-established correlation between alcohol intake and various risk-taking sexual behaviors, the causality remains unknown. I model the effect of alcohol use on the likelihood of pregnancy among youth using a variety of estimation techniques. The preference is given to the...

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Applications to the US Disability Program: A Semiparametric Approach

Kreider, Brent; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This study investigates the determinants of applications for US disability benefits between 1986 and 1993 using a semiparametric discrete factor procedure. Approximating a dynamic optimization model, the estimation carefully accounts for a variety of potential biases that weren’t addressed in...

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