Search Results - subject:"proxy variables"

Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - 2008

The internet and other large textual databases contain billions of documents: is there useful information in the number of documents written about different topics? We propose, based on the premise that the occurrence of a phenomenon increases the likelihood that people write about it, that the...

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Proxying ability by family background in returns to schooling estimations is generally a bad idea

Mellander, Erik; Sandgren-Massih, Sofia - 2008

A regression model is considered where earnings are explained by schooling and ability. It is assumed that schooling is measured with error and that there are no data on ability. Regressing earnings on observed schooling then yields an estimate of the return to schooling that is subject to...

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Downloading Wisdom from Online Crowds

Saiz, Albert; Simonsohn, Uri - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, document-frequency, proxy variables Corresponding author: Albert Saiz The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania … factors: sampling error, measurement error, and violation of the “redundancy- condition” for proxy variables (i) Sampling … prerequisite for such use of proxy-variables is that Cov(X, Y ˆ |Y)=0 or equivalently that Cov(ε,X)=0 (Jeffrey M. Wooldrige, 2001 …

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Compliance costs caused by agency action? Empirical evidence and implications for tax compliance

Eichfelder, Sebastian; Kegels, Chantal - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 40 (2014) C, pp. 200-219

construction of proxy variables. According to our estimate, a customer-unfriendly tax administration increases the average …

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Compliance costs caused by agency action? : empirical evidence and implications for tax compliance

Eichfelder, Sebastian; Kegels, Chantal - In: Journal of economic psychology : research in economic … 40 (2014), pp. 200-219

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The investment opportunity set and its proxy variables

Adam, Tim; Goyal, Vidhan K. - 2007

We use a real options approach to evaluate the performance of several proxy variables for a firm’s investment … ratio. Consistent with this finding, a common factor constructed from several proxy variables does not improve the …

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Testing for a common latent variable in a linear regression

Wittenberg, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We present a test of the hypothesis that a subset of the regressors are all proxying for the same latent variable. This issue will be of interest in cases where there are several correlated measures of elusive concepts such as misgovernance or corruption; in analyses where key variables such as...

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Interpretation of Regressions with Multiple Proxies

Lubotsky, Darren; Wittenberg, Martin - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2001

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The relative efficiency of labor market programs: Swedish experience from the 1990's

Carling, Kenneth; Richardson, Katarina - 2001

This paper estimates the relative efficiency of eight Swedish labor market programs in reducing the unemployment duration for participants. The analysis uses a hazard regression model and a uniquely large and rich administrative data set that contains all adult workers who became unemployed...

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The relative efficiency of labor market programs : Swedish experience from the 1990's

Carling, Kenneth; Richardson, Katarina - 2001

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