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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
7974 Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Brian Stacy
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
Evaluating Specification Tests in the Context of Value-Added Estimation
We study the properties of two specification tests that have been applied to a variety of estimators in the context of value-added measures (VAMs) of teacher and school quality: the Hausman test for ...
(published in: Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015, 8 (1), 35-59.)
C01, I20, J45, J01
7973 Cassandra M. Guarino
Mark D. Reckase
Brian Stacy
Jeffrey M. Wooldridge
A Comparison of Growth Percentile and Value-Added Models of Teacher Performance
School districts and state departments of education frequently must choose between a variety of methods to estimating teacher quality. This paper examines under what circumstances the decision ...
(published in: Statistics and Public Policy, 2015, 2(1), e1034820)
I20, J08, J24, J45
7972 Markus Frölich
Martin Huber
Treatment Evaluation with Multiple Outcome Periods under Endogeneity and Attrition
This paper develops a nonparametric methodology for treatment evaluation with multiple outcome periods under treatment endogeneity and missing outcomes. We use instrumental variables, pre-treatment ...
(published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2014, 109(508), 1697-1711)
C14, C21, C23, C24, C26
7971 Patrick Arni
Marco Caliendo
Steffen Künn
Klaus F. Zimmermann
The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA ...
(revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2014, 3 (6), 1-20 )
C81, H43, J68
7970 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ding Sai
Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Using a household sample survey for 2006 we show that the Hui population in the rural part of Ningxia autonomous region of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of ...
(published in: China Quarterly, 2014, 220 (220), 968-987)
D31, J15, R23
7969 S Anukriti
Todd J. Kumler
Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less ...
(published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2019, 67 (3), 687-724)
F13, I15, J12, J13, J16, J82, O15, O18, O19, O24
7966 Tarja Viitanen
The Divorce Revolution and Generalized Trust: Evidence from the United States 1973-2010
This paper examines the effect of exposure to a culture of easier divorce as a minor on generalized trust using the General Social Survey from 1973-2010. The easier divorce culture is defined as the ...
(published in: International Review of Law and Economics, 2014, 38, 25-32)
J12, K36, Z13
7965 Alena Bicakova
Štepán Jurajda
The Quiet Revolution and the Family: Gender Composition of Tertiary Education and Early Fertility Patterns
It is well known that highly 'female' fields of study in tertiary education are characterized by higher fertility. However, existing work does not disentangle the selection-causality nexus. We use ...
(revised version published as 'Gender Composition of College Graduates by Field of Study and Early Fertility' in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2017, 15 (4), 1323-1343 )
I23, J13, J16
7964 Henry S Farber
Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment: The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(5), 1126-1156)
J5, J50
7963 Ruth Ben-Yashar
Leif Danziger
On the Optimal Composition of Committees
This paper derives a simple characterization of how to optimally divide an organization's experts into different decision-making committees. The focus is on many three-member committees that make ...
(published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2014, 43 (4), 973-980)
D71
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