Similar Search Results

Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 2018

in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909184

Missing Data in Imputed Highest Grade Completed in the 2015-2018 NBER CPS Extracts

Hersch, Joni - 2019

In 2015, the Current Population Survey (CPS) eliminated three questions related to educational attainment. These questions are used by the NBER to calculate the variable, "Imputed Highest Grade Completed" (ihigrdc) in their Monthly Outgoing Rotation Group (MORG) extracts. Imputed Highest Grade...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863375

Combining Administrative and Survey Data to Improve Income Measurement

Meyer, Bruce - 2019

We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by decomposing the total survey error in the mean of survey reports of dollars received from a government transfer program. We decompose this error into three parts, generalized...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870217

An Empirical Total Survey Error Decomposition Using Data Combination

Meyer, Bruce - 2019

Survey error is known to be pervasive and to bias even simple, but important estimates of means, rates, and totals, such as poverty statistics and the unemployment rate. To summarize and analyze the extent, sources, and consequences of survey error, we define empirical counterparts of key...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870351

An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals : Evidence and Implications for Decision-Makers

Oswald, Andrew J. - 2015

publish the best article in an issue of a medium-quality journal like the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics than to … because it is about to appear in prestigious journal X. Moreover, those who allocate levels of research funding, such as in … quality in a mechanical way by using journal prestige ratings. The results in this paper suggest that such tendencies are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750570

Conference Presentations and Academic Publishing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2019

at three leading economics conferences over the 2006-2012 period. The results show a positive link between conference …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863783

The Econometrics of Antidotal Variables

Das, Tirthatanmoy; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2022

Some interventions or population attributes negate the effects of a treatment. This paper shows that incorporating these, what we call antidotal variables (AV), into a causal treatment effects analysis can with one cross-sectional regression identify the true causal effect, in addition to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076718

Causality and Econometrics

Heckman, James J.; Pinto, Rodrigo - 2022

This paper examines the econometric causal model for policy analysis developed by the seminal ideas of Ragnar Frisch and Trygve Haavelmo. We compare the econometric causal model with two popular causal frameworks: Neyman-Holland causal model and the do-calculus. The Neyman-Holland causal model...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083857

What Happens When Econometrics and Psychometrics Collide? An Example Using the PISA Data

Jerrim, John Peter - 2017

International large-scale assessments such as PISA are increasingly being used to benchmark the academic performance of young people across the world. Yet many of the technicalities underpinning these datasets are misunderstood by applied researchers, who sometimes fail to take their complex...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952602

Correcting for Misreporting of Government Benefits

Mittag, Nikolas - 2016

Recent validation studies show that survey misreporting is pervasive and biases common analyses. Addressing this problem is further complicated, because validation data are usually convenience samples and access is restricted, making them more suitable to document than to solve the problem. I...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981500