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Changing Inequality in Markets for Workplace Amenities

Hamermesh, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

wages grew most rapidly. Examination of another workplace disamenity, working evenings or nights, shows analogous results … of reducing workplace disamenities. Under reasonable assumptions we can infer from the estimates that the demand for the … amenities, workplace safety and desirable work times, is highly income-elastic. …

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Linear Social Interactions Models

Brock, William A.; Durlauf, Steven N.; Blume, Lawrence E.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper provides a systematic analysis of identification in linear social interactions models. This is both a theoretical and an econometric exercise as the analysis is linked to a rigorously delineated model of interdependent decisions. We develop an incomplete information game that...

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Inverse Probability Tilting for Moment Condition Models with Missing Data

Graham, Bryan S.; Pinto, Cristine Campos de Xavier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We propose a new inverse probability weighting (IPW) estimator for moment condition models with missing data. Our estimator is easy to implement and compares favorably with existing IPW estimators, including augmented inverse probability weighting (AIPW) estimators, in terms of efficiency,...

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Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California's Tobacco Control Program

Abadie, Alberto; Hainmueller, Jens; Diamond, Alexis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Building on an idea in Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), this article investigates the application of synthetic control methods to comparative case studies. We discuss the advantages of these methods and apply them to study the effects of Proposition 99, a large-scale tobacco control program that...

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Extremal Quantile Regressions for Selection Models and the Black-White Wage Gap

D'Haultfoeuille, Xavier; Maurel, Arnaud; Zhang, Yichong - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We consider the estimation of a semiparametric location-scale model subject to endogenous selection, in the absence of an instrument or a large support regressor. Identification relies on the independence between the covariates and selection, for arbitrarily large values of the outcome. In this...

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Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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Quantile Regression with Panel Data

Graham, Bryan S.; Hahn, Jinyong; Poirier, Alexandre; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We propose a generalization of the linear quantile regression model to accommodate possibilities afforded by panel data. Specifically, we extend the correlated random coefficients representation of linear quantile regression (e.g., Koenker, 2005; Section 2.6). We show that panel data allows the...

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Understanding Earnings Dynamics: Identifying and Estimating the Changing Roles of Unobserved Ability, Permanent and Transitory Shocks

Lochner, Lance; Shin, Youngki - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We consider a general framework to study the evolution of wage and earnings residuals that incorporates features highlighted by two influential but distinct literatures in economics: (i) unobserved skills with changing non-linear pricing functions and (ii) idiosyncratic shocks with both...

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High Wage Workers and High Wage Firms

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994

We study a longitudinal sample of over one million French workers and over 500,000 employing firms. Real total annual compensation per worker is decomposed into components related to observable characteristics, worker heterogeneity, firm heterogeneity and residual variation. Except for the...

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Micro-evidence on Rent Sharing from Different Perspectives

Dobbelaere, Sabien; MAIRESSE, Jacques - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

This article provides evidence of rent sharing from orthogonal directions by exploiting different dimensions in the same data. Taking advantage of a rich matched employer-employee dataset for France over the period 1984-2001, we consistently compare industry differences in rent-sharing...

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