Search Results - subject:"quantile regression."

Who's to Blame? The Determinants of German Students' Achievement in the PISA 2000 Study

Fertig, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Germany to the survey. The results of several quantile regression analyses demonstrate that many popular explanations, like …

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How Did the German Health Care Reform of 1997 Change the Distribution of the Demand for Health Services?

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2003

is potentially different in different parts of the outcome distribution. Quantile regression is a useful technique for …

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Quantiles for Counts

Machado, J.A.F.; Silva, J. M. C. Santos - EconWPA - 2003

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

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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

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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New insights on earnings trends across skill groups and industries in West Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kurz, Claudia - In: Empirical Economics 28 (2003) 3, pp. 479-514

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the structure of earnings in West Germany across skill groups and industries. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel for the period 1984 to 1994. We estimate quantile regressions, both for the entire sample period and for...

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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 - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Based on the individual-level data of the PISA 2000 study, this Paper 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...

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Variable data driven bandwidth choice in nonparametric quantile regression

Abberger, Klaus - Zentrum für Finanzen und Ökonometrie, Fachbereich … - 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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Corporate Growth and FDI: Are Multinationals Stimulating Local Industrial Development?

Fotopoulos, Georgios; Louri-Dendrinou, Eleni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

structure, while quantile regression techniques as more suitable to the data available (2640 manufacturing firms operating in …

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The Alpha-Quantile Distribution Function and its Applications to Financial Modeling

Komunjer, Ivana - Society for Computational Economics - SCE - 2002

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Kernel smoothed prediction intervals for ARMA models

Abberger, Klaus - Zentrum für Finanzen und Ökonometrie, Fachbereich … - 2002

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

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