Conventional chi(superscript "2") approximations to the distribution of the information matrix test are shown to be inaccurate in models and with sample sizes commonly encountered. Interpreting a version of the information matrix test as an efficient score test leads to an alternative Edgeworth...

The authors formulate a simultaneous-equation model to explain the wages, output, education, and quit propensities of a sample of production workers. Their principal finding is that individuals that choose more education than they would expect from their observed characteristics have lower than...

Consider a researcher estimating the parameters of a regression function based on data for all 50 states in the United States or on data for all visits to a website. What is the interpretation of the estimated parameters and the standard errors? In practice, researchers typically assume that the...