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Estimation of treatment effects in repeated public goods experiments

Kong, Jianning; Sul, Donggyu - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 4, pp. 1-24

This paper provides a new statistical model for repeated voluntary contribution mechanism games. In a repeated public goods experiment, contributions in the first round are cross-sectionally independent simply because subjects are randomly selected. Meanwhile, contributions to a public account...

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Determinants of perceived insecurity among victims of crime in Bangladesh

Barkat, Abonti - In: Bangladesh journal of political economy 38 (2022) 2, pp. 175-198

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Testing the perturbation sensitivity of abortion-Crime regressions

Brzezinski, Michal; Halber, Maria - In: Contemporary economics 6 (2012) 2, pp. 58-63

use a new data set on crime correlates for each of the US states, the original model specifica-tion and estimation …The hypothesis that the legalisation of abortion contributed significantly to the reduction of crime in the United … Freakonomics. This paper expands on the existing literature about the computational stability of abortion-crime regressions by …

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Non-Parametric Test of Time Consistency : Present Bias and Future Bias

Takeuchi, Kan - 2011

. These two assumptions cause serious and fundamental biases in the estimation of time preference. This paper presents a new …

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Estimation of Peaked Densities Over the Interval [0,1] Using Two-Sided Power Distribution : Application to Lottery Experiments

Kontek, Krzysztof - 2010

This paper deals with estimating peaked densities over the interval [0,1] using two-sided power distribution (Kotz, van Dorp, 2004). Such data were encountered in experiments determining certainty equivalents of lotteries (Kontek, 2010). This paper summarizes the basic properties of the...

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A method to estimate mean lying rates and their full distribution

Garbarino, Ellen; Slonim, Robert; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2018

misreport what they observed. It provides a precise estimate of the mean and confidence interval (offering lower and upper …

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Testing for Ricardian equivalence in Indonesia

Adji, Artidiatun; Alm, James - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 3 (2016) 1, pp. 5-31

paradigm are consistently and strongly rejected by most of our estimation results. The only results that tend to give some …

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Distinguishing between Consistency and Error in Reliability Coefficients : Improving the Estimation and Interpretation of Information on Measurement Precision

Fisher, William P. - 2010

Reliability coefficients indicate the proportion of total variance due to differences not attributable to error among measures separated along a quantitative continuum by a testing, survey, or assessment instrument. Person score or measure reliability is influenced by both the internal...

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Density Based Regression for Inhomogeneous Data : Application to Lottery Experiments

Kontek, Krzysztof - 2010

kurtosis or by an unequal amount of data over the estimation domain. The concept is based first on the estimation of the … the advantages of the proposed methodology, which eliminates most of the estimation problems arising from data …

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How Much Can We Trust Causal Interpretations of Fixed-Effects Estimators in the Context of Criminality?

Bjerk, David - 2008

Researchers are often interested in estimating the causal effect of some "treatment" on individual criminality. For example, two recent prominent papers in Criminology have attempted to estimate the respective direct effects of marriage and gang participation on individual criminal activity. One...

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