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Harding, Matthew - 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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Estimating the Cost of Children Through Engel Curves by Different Good Aggregates

Vernizzi, Achille; Siletti, Elena - 2013

Equivalence scales for the cost of children are estimated for one of the most developed Italian region (Lombardia) through the Engel approach. The data set is obtained from the survey on household consumption expenditures, which is hold by the Italian Central Institute for Statistics (ISTAT) in...

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Diets, Nutrition and Poverty : The Indian Experience

Gaiha, Raghav; Jha, Raghbendra; Kulkarni, Vani S. - 2014

This paper focuses on the Indian experience with dietary changes, their nutritional implications, and policy response to alleviate nutritional deprivation. We review the evidence on nutrient intake and dietary changes, particularly the downward shift in calorie, protein and other nutrient intake...

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Engel Curves for Food Away from Home by Circumstance of Consumption : The Case of Argentina

García Arancibia, Rodrigo - 2013

This paper studies the Engel’s relationship for the consumption of food away from home (FAFH) in Argentina. Different Engel curves and their respective expenditure elasticities are estimated, including socio-economic and demographic characteristics of households, and later computing the...

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Rent Indices for Housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998

Hoffmann, Johannes; Kurz, Claudia - 2021

In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of those studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to...

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The effect of prospective payment on admission and treatment policy: Evidence from inpatient rehabilitation facilities

Sood, Neeraj; Huckfeldt, Peter J.; Grabowski, David C.; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 32 (2013) 5, pp. 965-979

policies of providers. We find modest spillover effects in other post-acute settings and negative health impacts for only one …

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From micro data to causality : forty years of empirical labor economics

Klaauw, Bas van der - 2014

This overview describes the development of methods for empirical research in the field of labor economics during the past four decades. This period is characterized by the use of micro data to answer policy relevant research question. Prominent in the literature is the search for exogenous...

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Expectile treatment effects : an efficient alternative to compute the distribution of treatment effects

Stahlschmidt, Stephan; Eckardt, Matthias; Härdle, Wolfgang - 2014

The distribution of treatment e ects extends the prevailing focus on average treatment e ects to the tails of the outcome variable and quantile treatment effects denote the predominant technique to compute those effects in the presence of a confounding mechanism. The underlying quantile...

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Rising geographic disparities in US mortality

Couillard, Benjamin K.; Foote, Christopher L.; Gandhi, … - 2021 - This version: September 2021

The 21st century has been a period of rising inequality in both income and health. In this study, we find that … the largest health gains during the last several decades. Nor was higher dispersion in mortality caused entirely by the … that high-income states in 1992 were better able to enact public health strategies and adopt behaviors that, over the next …

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How the well-being function varies with age : the importance of income, health, and social relations over the life cycle

Bitzer, Jürgen; Gören, Erkan; Welsch, Heinz - 2023 - This Version: July 2023

Previous literature has identified income, poor health and social relationships as the most important predictors of … income and social relationships vary with age in a wave-like fashion, while the negative marginal effect of poor health …

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