A growing body of literature is emerging on empirical likelihood methods for complex surveys. These works largely focus on the population mean. We propose a weighted empirical likelihood approach as a method of inference for quantiles under stratified random sampling, which is one of the most...

In this paper we reexamine the relationship between patents and R&D using empirical likelihood estimation. Based on the data of Hall, Griliches, and Hausman (1986) and the specification allowing for endogenous regressors, we found that the contemporaneous effect of R&D is significantly positive,...