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Panel Data Estimators for Nonseparable Models with Endogenous Regressors

Altonji, Joseph G.; Matzkin, Rosa Liliana - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

We propose two new estimators for a wide class of panel data models with nonseparable error terms and endogenous … depend on the explanatory variables once one conditions on z. In some panel data cases we may find z by making the assumption … in the panel is exchangeable in the values of those explanatory variables. This situation may be realistic, in particular …

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Has medical innovation reduced cancer mortality?

Lichtenberg, Frank - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during the period 2000-2009, by estimating difference-in-differences models using longitudinal (annual) data on about 60 cancer sites (breast, colon, etc.). The outcome measure used is...

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"Healthy, Wealthy and Wise?" Revisited: An Analysis of the Causal Pathways from Socio-economic Status to Health

Winter, Joachim; Stowasser, Till; Heiss, Florian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Much has been said about the stylized fact that the economically successful are not only wealthier but also healthier than the less affluent. There is little doubt about the existence of this socio-economic gradient in health, but there remains a vivid debate about its source. In this paper, we...

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Dynamic Models of R&D, Innovation and Productivity: Panel Data Evidence for Dutch and French Manufacturing

MAIRESSE, Jacques; Mohnen, Pierre; Raymond, Wladimir; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...

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Making Nutritional Information Digestible: Effects of a Receipt-Based Intervention on Restaurant Purchases

Kuhn, Peter; Bedard, Kelly - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study the effects of receipts that include personalized ordering suggestions designed to reduce fat and calorie consumption on purchasing behavior at a restaurant chain. We find that customers, in the aggregate, made most of the item substitutions that were encouraged by the messages, such as...

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Career Progression, Economic Downturns, and Skills

Adda, Jerome; Meghir, Costas; Dustmann, Christian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper analyzes the career progression of skilled and unskilled workers, with a focus on how careers are affected by economic downturns and whether formal skills, acquired early on, can shield workers from the effect of recessions. Using detailed administrative data for Germany for numerous...

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Bounding the Effects of Social Experiments: Accounting for Attrition in Administrative Data

Grogger, Jeffrey T. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Social experiments frequently exploit data from administrative records. However, most administrative data systems are state-specific, designed to track earnings or benefit payments among residents within a single state. Once an experimental participant moves out of state, his earnings and...

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Towards an explanation of cross-country asymmetries in monetary transmission

Georgiadis, Georgios - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

from country-specific vectorautoregressive (VAR) models and a non-standard panel VAR model match. In the country …-specific VAR models, the impulse responses vary across countries in an unrestricted fashion. In the panel VAR model, the impulse …

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Spatial Errors in Count Data Regressions

Moser, Petra; Bertanha, Marinho - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

of health and unemployment. Along with negative binomial, Poisson panel regressions are a preferred method of analysis …, this result also applies to the commonly used Logit model of panel data with fixed effects. We develop a test for time …

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The evolution of economic convergence in the European Union

Borsi, Mihály Tamás; Metiu, Norbert - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

This paper investigates economic convergence in real income per capita between 27 European Union countries. We employ a non-linear latent factor framework to study transitional behavior among economies between 1970 and 2010. Our results offer important insights on the economic catch-up exhibited...

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