due to selection versus actual productivity differences. Whereas previous empirical work has focused on schooling … selection due to both cognitive ability and schooling attainment does not explain more than a small fraction of the sizeable … urban-rural wage gap in Kenya, suggesting that productivity differences across sectors remain large. …

regressors in both the selection and outcome equations and can accommodate the presence of predetermined covariates in the model …

This paper considers a flexible panel data sample selection model in which (i) the outcome equation is permitted to … interest, (ii) both the outcome and (parametric) selection equations contain unobserved fixed effects and (iii) selection is … generalized to a polychotomous case. We propose a two-stage estimator. Given consistent parameter estimates from the selection …

This paper examines the selection biases in the cyclical behaviour of real wages using the German Socio-Economic Panel …

education choice) and risk (unknown to the individual). The risk estimates are corrected for selection by applying the selection …

This paper provides empirical evidence of advantageous selection in insurance markets. By using a novel insurance … setting where moral hazard is not a concern, I am able to overcome an important obstacle in most studies of selection: the … inability to distinguish moral hazard from selection. In the US market for area yield crop insurance, payouts are based on …

, traditional Ordinary Least Square estimates may be biased by selection problems and mix-ups of age group heterogeneity. Hence, we … estimate the marginal effects of schooling with the increasing labour markets experience, using the Heckman Selection Model. We …