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History of Historical Statistics of the United States
Ullman Chiswick, Carmel - 2003
Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in 1949 as a time-series supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, it has inspired similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261583
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History of Historical Statistics of the United States
Chiswick, Carmel U. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Historical Statistics of the United States is the premier source of quantitative evidence on American economic, social, political, demographic, and institutional history. Introduced in 1949 as a time-series supplement to the Statistical Abstract of the United States, it has inspired similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703148
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Trouble in the Tails? What We Know about Earnings Nonresponse Thirty Years after Lillard, Smith, and Welch
Bollinger, Christopher R.; Hirsch, Barry; Hokayem, … - 2018
Earnings nonresponse in household surveys is widespread, yet there is limited knowledge of how nonresponse biases earnings measures. We examine the consequences of nonresponse on earnings gaps and inequality using Current Population Survey individual records linked to administrative earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931675
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Schooling and the AFQT : Evidence from School Entry Laws
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Lewis, Ethan - 2005
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical … and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing test-takers with birthdays near state cutoff dates for school entry. We … – in a model that allows age at the test date to have a direct effect on AFQT performance. This identification strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271937
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Schooling and the AFQT: Evidence from School Entry Laws
Cascio, Elizabeth; Lewis, Ethan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Is the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) a measure of achievement or ability? The answer to this question is critical … and AFQT performance in the NLSY 79 by comparing test-takers with birthdays near state cutoff dates for school entry. We … – in a model that allows age at the test date to have a direct effect on AFQT performance. This identification strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822343
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How Reliable Are Income Data Collected with aSingle Question?
Micklewright, John; Schnepf, Sylke Viola - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But manysurveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raisesissues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals are asked about the householdtotal rather than own income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861373
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Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda
Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donogue, Cathal; … - 2023
This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets, and of possible compensatory government transfers that can be financed through carbon-tax revenues. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296612
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Overseas GPs and Prescription Behaviour in England
Nicodemo, Catia; Orso, Cristina E.; Tealdi, Cristina - 2023
The UK imports many doctors from abroad, where medical training and experience might be different. This study attempts to understand how drug prescription behaviour differs in English GP practices which have larger or smaller numbers of foreign-trained GPs. Results show that in general practices...
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Gender Gaps in Financial Literacy: A Multi-Arm RCT to Break the Response Bias in Surveys
Hospido, Laura; Iriberri, Nagore; Machelett, Margarita - 2023
Gender gaps in financial literacy are pervasive and persistent. They are partly explained because women choose "I do not know" more frequently. We test for the effectiveness of three interventions to shift this behavior. The control survey includes the possibility of "I do not know". The three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469739
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Program Quality and Treatment Completion for Youth Training Programs
Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - 2013
This paper analyzes the effects of training quality on the likelihood of treatment completion by estimating dose-response functions via a generalized propensity score. Results show a statistically positive relationship between training quality and treatment completion for youth participants in Peru.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319436