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Cross-Country Growth Comparison: Theory to Empirics

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper reviews the cross-country record of economic growth, using as organizing framework how economic theory has …

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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data

Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We analyze peer e¤ects in sleeping behavior using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be inconsistent. We extend the NLS estimator in Wang and Lee...

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The Log of Gravity

Santos Silva, J.M.C; Tenreyro, Silvana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Although economists have long been aware of Jensen's inequality, many econometric applications have neglected an important implication of it: the standard practice of interpreting the parameters of log-linearized models estimated by ordinary least squares as elasticities can be highly misleading...

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Survey Instruments and the Reports of Consumption Expenditures: Evidence from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys

Battistin, Erich; Padula, Mario - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper provides evidence on the relevance of the collection mode for the analysis of consumption data for the United States using complementary data sets from the Consumer Expenditure Surveys (CEX). We first show that population figures from consumption reports obtained with diaries markedly...

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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Controls

Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in differences estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...

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Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

regressions, time-series modelling, panel data analysis - can be misleading for understanding convergence; a model of polarization …

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Volatility, Financial Development and the Natural Resource Curse

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

-rich countries. We also present IV-estimates to correct for the endogenous nature of investment rates and panel estimates to allow …

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Long-run Labour Market Effects of Individual Sports Activities

Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

data from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP) 1984 to 2006. Econometric problems due to individuals choosing … methods with a specific way to use the panel dimension of the data. The paper shows that sports activities have sizeable …

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Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit

Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

companies by using alternative frontier cost models for panel data. Thereby, the multidimensional performance estimation …

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The Generalized Dynamic Factor Model: One-Sided Estimation and Forecasting

Forni, Mario; Hallin, Marc; Lippi, Marco; Reichlin, Lucrezia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper proposes a new forecasting method that exploits information from a large panel of time series. The method is … the information on the dynamic covariance structure of the whole panel. We first use our previous method to obtain an … panel of 447 monthly time series show very encouraging results. …

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