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Bloem, Michael D.; Holbein, John B.; Imlay, Samuel J.; … - 2025

-third of this is caused by the older sibling voting, as determined by age-of-voting-eligibility thresholds in a regression … discontinuity design. Third, the causal impact of a sibling voting runs in the other direction as well - younger siblings increase … the probability of their older siblings voting in their early 20's by 14 percent. These results demonstrate the influence …

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Top of the class : the importance of ordinal rank

Murphy, Richard; Weinhardt, Felix - 2014 - This version: 10 May 2014

This paper examines the long-run impact of ordinal rank during primary school on productivity using comprehensive English administrative data. Identification is obtained from variation in test score distributions across cohorts and subjects, such that the same score relative to the class mean...

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Analysis of Economic Growth in Regions : Geographical and Institutional Aspect

Lugovoy, Oleg; Dashkeev, Vladimir; Mazayev, Ilya; … - 2012

This study explores disparity in regional development in Russia and in Canada and role of geography in their development. In the first chapter analysis of the role of geographic, economic, and institutional factors in economic growth over 1996-2004 is presented. Additionally the issue of the...

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Harding, Matthew C. - 2018

This paper proposes a quantile regression estimator for a heterogeneous panel model with lagged dependent variables and interactive effects. The paper adopts the Common Correlated Effects (CCE) approach proposed by Pesaran (2006) and Chudik and Pesaran (2015) and demonstrates that the extension...

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Harding, Matthew C. - 2018

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Chapter 62 A Practitioner's Approach to Estimating Intertemporal Relationships Using Longitudinal Data: Lessons from Applications in Wage Dynamics

MaCurdy, Thomas - In: Handbook of econometrics : volume 6A, (pp. 4057-4167). 2007

This chapter presents a unified set of estimation methods for fitting a rich array of models describing dynamic relationships within a longitudinal data setting. The discussion surveys approaches for characterizing the micro dynamics of continuous dependent variables both over time and across...

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Democracy and FDI

Busse, Matthias - 2003

Many believe that multinational enterprises insensitively ignore political rights and civil liberties in the countries of their investments. Frequently, non-governmental organizations accuse multinationals of fostering repressive regimes in developing countries and consider foreign direct...

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Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Lagrange Multiplier Tests for Panel Seemingly Unrelated Regressions with Spatial Lag and Spatial Errors : An Application to Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris

Baltagi, Badi H. - 2010

This paper proposes maximum likelihood estimators for panel seemingly unrelated regressions with both spatial lag and spatial error components. We study the general case where spatial effects are incorporated via spatial errors terms and via a spatial lag dependent variable and where the...

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When the Early Bird Catches the Worm : The Impact of Training in Retail

Hinerasky, Christiane - 2011

We econometrically evaluate the performance effects of a six month e-learning programme in a large retail chain with monthly data on sales revenue, for four years using panel regressions. Participants in early cohorts show positive performance effects during training periods that depreciate...

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Quantity versus Shares in Estimating Demand Systems

Paris, Quirino - 2012

This paper considers the estimation and testing of demand systems when the number of sample goods is smaller than the number of commodity choices available to consumers. In this case, the demand system is incomplete. The large majority of papers that appeared in the literature specifies and...

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