Most migration surveys do not ask about the legal status of migrants due to concerns about the sensitivity of this question. List randomization is a technique that has been used in a number of other social science applications to elicit sensitive information. This paper trials this technique by...

We take a new look at the resampled efficiency technique developed by Michaud (1998) and compare it with the Markowitz mean-variance portfolio construction technique by assessing the performance of three representative portfolios, i.e. the global minimum variance portfolio, the intermediate...

We introduce a new Stata program xtspj as a bias correction tool for nonlinear models with fixed effects. The correction removes the first-order bias term using the split-panel jackknife estimation technique introduced by Dhaene and Jochmans (2015). Both the jackknife of the parameter and the...