Search Results - subject:"quantile regression"

Machado, José A. F.; Silva, J. M. C. Santos - 2002

inference to be performed using standard quantile regression techniques. The performance and implementation of the estimator are …

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The Role of Background Factors for Reading Literacy: Straight National Scores in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002

Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this note provides a detailed econometric analysis of the way that reading test scores are associated with individual and family background information and with characteristics of the school and class of the 15 to 16 year old respondents...

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A Measure of Gender Wage Discrimination at Quantiles

Ugidos Olazabal, Arantza; Gardeazabal, Javier - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico … - 2002

Revised: 2006-05.-- Published as an article in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, vol. 18, issue 1, pp. 165-179.

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Real Wages and Returns to Human Capital in Kenya Manufacturing firms

Wambugu, Anthony - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2002

-section data sets from a survey conducted in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 2000. A quantile regression technique is used to examine how the …

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Doctors without borders: The returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana; Sauer, Robert - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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The importance of individual heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of socioeconomic inequality in health: An approach based on quantile regression

Jones, Andrew M.; López-Nicolás, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

on the quantile regression model. The results suggest that there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the …

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The importance of individual heterogeneity in the decomposition of measures of socioeconomic inequality in health: An approach based on quantile regression

Jones, Andrew M.; López-Nicolás, Ángel - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

on the quantile regression model. The results suggest that there is an important degree of heterogeneity in the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704838

Abandoning the Sinking Ship: The Composition of Worker Flows Prior to Displacement

Lengermann, Paul A.; Vilhuber, Lars - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2002

jobflow statistics according to skill group and number of periods before displacement. Furthermore, we use quantile regression …

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Kernel smoothed prediction intervals for ARMA models

Abberger, Klaus - 2002

methods are based on the sample forecast errors. In this paper we apply nonparametric quantile regression to the empirical …

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Variable data driven bandwidth choice in nonparametric quantile regression

Abberger, Klaus - 2002

nonparametric mean regression various meth- ods for bandwidth selection exists. But in nonparametric quantile regression band- width … local linear quantile regression based on cross-validation and local likeli- hood estimation is used. …

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