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Exporter Dynamics, Firm Size and Growth, and Partial Year Effects

Taglioni, Daria; Bernard, Andrew B.; Massari, Renzo; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

entry and the following year. This paper examines the implications of partial year effects using Peruvian export data. The … literatures on firm export dynamics. Correcting the partial year effect eliminates unusually high growth rates in the first year … of exporting, raises initial export levels, and shifts 10 percent of market entrants from below to above the median size …

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Using the Pareto Distribution to Improve Estimates of Topcoded Earnings

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Armour, Philip; Larrimore, Jeff - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Inconsistent censoring of top earnings in the public-use March Current Population Survey (CPS) is an important limitation in using it to measure labor earnings trends. Using less-censored internal CPS data, combined with Pareto estimates from it for internally censored observations, we create an...

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U.S High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations

Murnane, Richard J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

I survey the evidence on patterns in U.S. high school graduation rates over the period 1970-2010 and report the results of new research conducted to fill in holes in the evidence. I begin by pointing out the strengths and limitations of existing data sources. I then describe six striking...

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Trade Liberalization and the Skill Premium: A Local Labor Markets Approach

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We develop a specific-factors model of regional economies that includes two types of workers, skilled and unskilled. The model delivers a simple equation relating trade-induced local shocks to changes in local skill premia. We apply the methodology to Brazil's early 1990s trade liberalization...

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Misclassification in Binary Choice Models

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

While measurement error in the dependent variable does not lead to bias in some well-known cases, with a binary dependent variable the bias can be pronounced. In binary choice, Hausman, Abrevaya and Scott-Morton (1998) show that the marginal effects in the observed data differ from the true ones...

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Using Social Media to Measure Labor Market Flows

Shapiro, Matthew D.; Antenucci, Dolan; Cafarella, Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Social media enable promising new approaches to measuring economic activity and analyzing economic behavior at high frequency and in real time using information independent from standard survey and administrative sources. This paper uses data from Twitter to create indexes of job loss, job...

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Endogenous Co-residence and Program Incidence: South Africa's Old Age Pension

Thomas, Duncan; Hamoudi, Amar - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We investigate whether living arrangements respond to an arguably exogenous shift in the distribution of power in family economic decision-making. In the early 1990s, the South African Old Age Pension was expanded to cover most black South Africans above a sex-specific age cut-off resulting in a...

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The Validity of Consumption Data: Are the Consumer Expenditure Interview and Diary Surveys Informative?

Meyer, Bruce D.; Bee, Adam; Sullivan, James X. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper examines the quality of data collected in the Consumer Expenditure (CE) Survey, which is the source for the Consumer Price Index weights and is the main source of U.S. consumption microdata. We compare reported spending on a large number of categories of goods and services to...

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The Potential use of In-home Scanner Technology for Budget Surveys

Leicester, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper considers the potential role of in-home scanners as a method of data collection for national budget surveys such as the Consumer Expenditure Survey. A detailed comparison is made between scanner data and diary-based budget survey data for food at home in the UK. Levels of recorded...

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Measuring Total Household Spending in a Monthly Internet Survey: Evidence from the American Life Panel

Hurd, Michael D.; Rohwedder, Susann - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Beginning in May 2009 we fielded a monthly Internet survey designed to measure total household spending as the aggregate of about 40 spending components. This paper reports on a number of outcomes from 30 waves of data collection. These outcomes include sample attrition, indicators of data...

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