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Problems of sample-selection bias in the historical heights literature: A theoretical and econometric analysis
Bodenhorn, Howard; Guinnane, Timothy; Mroz, Thomas - 2013
An extensive literature uses anthropometric measures, typically heights, to draw inferences about living standards in the past. This literature's influence reaches beyond economic history; the results of historical heights research appear as crucial components in development economics and...
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A Joint Top Income and Wealth Distribution
Zhu, Junyi; Steiner, Viktor - 2020
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions. We leverage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287939
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A joint top income and wealth distribution
Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021
Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424473
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The Effects of Gaps and Disparities on Economic Growth. A Study of 10 Former Socialist Countries from the CEE, Members of the EU
Pescu (Beca), Marușa; Ștefan (Barabaș), Camelia - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 592-610
The goal of this research paper is to empirically assess the potential effects of macroeconomic determinants of economic growth and to determine the impact of income inequality on economic growth in the long-run in ten former socialist countries from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) which are...
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Consistent estimation of pseudo panels in the presence of selection bias
Mora Rodriguez, Jhon James; Muro, Juan - 2012
In the presence of selection bias, traditional estimators of pseudo panel data are inconsistent. In this paper, the … selection bias. Specifically, they propose a Wald test for the null hypothesis that there is no selection bias. Under rejection …-panel regressions to test for selection bias and estimate the returns to education in Colombia. The authors corroborate the existence of …
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On the estimation of distributional household wealth: Addressing under-reporting via optimization problems with invariant Gini coefficient
Engel, Janina; Ohlwerter, Dennis; Scherer, Matthias - 2023
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides valuable information for the monetary policy and financial stability purposes. The dataset shows, however, inconsistencies with National Account (NtlA) statistics, as the aggregated HFCS micro data do usually not match the...
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Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269337
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Measuring inequality using censored data: a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271567
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Applying Benford's Law to individual financial reports: An empirical investigation on the basis of SEC XBRL filings
Henselmann, Klaus; Scherr, Elisabeth; Ditter, Dominik - 2013
The business reporting standard XBRL offers the opportunity to easily extract and analyze a sufficient number of monetary items out of single annual reports for statistical analysis purposes. Using XBRL 10-K reports filed with the SEC EDGAR system, we derive first digit distributions for single...
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Correcting wealth survey data for the missing rich: The case of Austria
Eckerstorfer, Paul; Halak, Johannes; Kapeller, Jakob; … - 2014
suggest that the alleged non-observation bias is considerable, accounting for about one quarter of total net wealth. The …
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