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Rqdeco: a Stata module to decompose differences in distribution
WARNING: this page is no longer updated. Go to http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Blaise_Melly/ to find the current version of the codes.
Rqdeco is a Stata command computing a decomposition of differences in distributions using quantile regression. It is a generalization of the Oaxaca/Blinder decomposition since it…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
Bounds, health habits and anchoring income effects
Surveys are often design so that initial non-respondents to some continuous amount can disclose partial information with follow-up questions. These questions are often based on prompting responses with a sequence of bids that classify the undisclosed amount within a category. Secondary variables may reduce the problem of nonresponse but are unlikely to eliminate the problem…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
Identification and Estimation with Partial Respondents and Anchoring Effects
Household surveys often suffer from nonresponse on variable such as income, savings or wealth. The work by Charles F. Manski in the 1990s shows how bounds on conditional quantiles on the variable of interest can be derived, allowing for any type of non-random item nonresponse. The width between these bounds can be reduced using follow up questions in the form of unfolding brackets…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
Challenges facing econometrics in the 21st century
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
Going beyond functionings to capabilities: an econometric model to explain and estimate capabilities
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2007
Are the effects of training programmes in Germany sensitive to the choice and measurement of labour market outcomes?
We reconsider the evidence of Lechner, Miquel and Wunsch (2004, 2005) on the effectiveness of training programmes for the unemployed conducted in East and West Germany in the period 1993-1994 by investigating whether, and if so, how overall policy conclusions depend on the particular choice of the outcome variable. We find that different measures of employment and earnings provide…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2006
The Relation of Different Concepts of Causality in Econometrics
Granger and Sims non-causality (GSNC) are compared to non-causality based on concepts popular in the microeconometrics and programme evaluation literature (potential outcome non-causality, PONC). GSNC is defined as a set of restrictions on joint distributions of random variables with observable sample counterparts, whereas PONC combines restrictions on partially unobservable…
Institution partenaire
English / 15/06/2006
Statistical Assistance for Programme Selection - For a Better Targeting of Active Labour Market Policies in Switzerland
In this paper the motivation and various concepts of statistical systems for assisting case workers in assigning unemployed persons to active labour market programmes (ALMP) are examined and the particular implementation of such a statistical system in Switzerland, which was introduced in the form of a randomized pilot study, is discussed.
Institution partenaire
English / 15/05/2006
Estimation of counterfactual distributions using quantile regression
This paper proposes estimators of unconditional distribution functions in the presence of covariates. The methods are based on the estimation of the conditional distribution by (parametric or nonparametric) quantile regression. The conditional distribution is then integrated over the range of the covariates, allowing for the estimation of counterfactual distributions. In the…
Institution partenaire
English / 10/02/2006
Public and private sector wage distributions controlling for endogenous sector choice
We apply the instrumental quantile regression estimator of Chernozhukov and Hansen (2004b and 2006) to examine the wage structure in the public and private sector in Germany. Assuming exogenous sector choice, we find a negative mean public sector wage premium and show that the wage distribution is more compressed in the public sector. Correcting for endogenous sector choice reverses…
Institution partenaire
English / 09/02/2006
Trade preferences to small developing countries and the welfare cost of lost multilateral liberalization
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Product-specific rules of origin in EU and US preferential trading arrangements: an assessment
Building on earlier work by Estevadeordal (2000), we construct a synthetic index (R-index) intending to capture the restrictiveness of rules of origin in preferential trading agreements. The R-index is applied to NAFTA and the Single List of the EU's PANEURO system covering all of the EU's preferential trade agreements. The R-index highlights how a common set of rules of…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Are different Rules of Origin equally costly? Estimates from NAFTA
Using data on the preference and utilization rates of NAFTA for Mexican exports to the United States in 2001, this chapter proposes a method to estimate the likely costs of different Rules of Origin (ROO) for final and intermediate goods, and compares these results with those obtained using the synthetic index proposed by Estevadeordal (2000). Econometric results indicate that…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Cournot Competition and Hit-and-Run Entry and Exit in a Teaching Experiment
We describe a computerized experiment which can be used to introduce students to imperfect competition in courses on introductory economics, industrial organization, game theory, and strategy & management. In addition to introducing students to strategic thinking in general, the experiment serves to demonstrate that firm profits fall as the number of competitors is increased in a…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Labour Market Policy in Germany: Institutions, Instruments and Reforms since Unification
Almost 15 years after Unification in 1990, Germany is still struggling with the economic consequences of this event. Although the East German economy has made considerable progress since its near-collapse after the German monetary, economic and social union in July 1990, the East German labour market has not yet recovered. Western Germany, which had to bear a substantial part of the…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Export activity and Wage Dispersion : the Case of Swiss firms
Dans ce papier, nous utilisons une base de données d’environ 3’000 entreprises (et env. 160'000 salarié-es) implantées en Suisse pour analyser l’impact de l’activité d’exportation sur la dispersion des salaires. Premièrement, nous estimons des fonctions de salaires qui tiennent compte tant des caractéristiques des entreprises que de celles des employé-es. Dans un deuxième temps…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
A Cluster Analysis of Multidimensional Poverty in Switzerland
Dans cet article, nous proposons une méthodologie qui offre de nouvelles perspectives dans le contexte de la pauvreté multidimensionnelle. Dans une première étape, on effectue une analyse factorielle afin de construire des indicateurs de pauvreté basés sur de nombreuses dimensions potentielles et sans imposer de contrainte à priori. Les variables de base sont alors combinées dans…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
An Application of Extreme Value Theory for Measuring Financial Risk
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Revisiting the effects of regional trade agreements on trade flows with proper specification of the gravity model
This paper uses a gravity model to assess ex-post regional trade agreements. The model includes 130 countries and is estimated with panel data over the period 1962–1996. The introduction of the correct number of dummy variables allows for identification of Vinerian trade creation and trade diversion effects, while the estimation method takes into account the unobservable…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/01/2006
Does subsidised temporary employment get the unemployed back to work? An econometric analysis of two different schemes
Not available in German. Subsidised employment is an important tool of active labour market policies to improve the chances of the unemployed to find permanent employment. Using informative individual administrative data we investigate the effects of two different schemes of subsidised temporary employment implemented in Switzerland. One scheme operates as a non-profit employment…
Institution partenaire
English / 01/12/2005
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