We propose alternative approaches to analyze residuals in binary regression models based on random effect components. Our preferred model does not depend upon any tuning parameter, being completely automatic. Although the focus is mainly on accommodation of outliers, the proposed methodology is...

We decompose annual average years of schooling series for Portugal into different schooling levels series. By estimating a number of vector autoregressions, we provide measures of aggregate and disaggregate economic growth impacts of different education levels. Increasing education at all levels...

P<sc>ereira</sc> J. and G<sc>alego</sc> A. Inter-regional wage differentials in Portugal: an analysis across the wage distribution, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. Typically, studies on regional wage differentials are based on ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates. Quantile regression is an alternative approach which allows...

Economists have until recently taken a back-seat in the debate on inequality and health, despite various suggestions that economic science has much to contribute to the clarification of issues surrounding that polemic. This article presents a bibliography of English-language sources which...

The health-equity debate has generally given far more attention to empirical rather than conceptual matters. However, empirical work on equity is at its most useful when it can be related to a specific normative framework, such as that provided by public pronouncements. This paper, therefore,...