Sofoklis Goulas,Rigissa Megalokonomou
Sofoklis Goulas
When officials relax school attendance requirements as a prophylactic measure against a pandemic, students of higher prior performance take more absences, while students of lower prior performance keep going to school. Prior performance is ...
Valerio Ercolani,Filippo Natoli
Valerio Ercolani
This letter highlights the role of macroeconomic and financial uncertainty in predicting US recessions. In-sample forecasts using probit models indicate that the two variables are the best predictors of recessions at short horizons. Macroec...
Silvia Marchesi,Tania Masi
Silvia Marchesi
This paper studies the relationship between sovereign debt (final) restructuring and sovereign ratings, by distinguishing between commercial and official debt and by considering the creditors' loss (haircut). Institutional Investor's index ...
Accounting for non-response bias using participation incentives and survey design: An application using gift vouchers [0.03%]
利用参与激励和调查设计解释无反应偏差：关于礼品券的应用研究
Mark E McGovern,David Canning,Till Bärnighausen
Mark E McGovern
Standard corrections for missing data rely on the strong and generally untestable assumption of missing at random. Heckman-type selection models relax this assumption, but have been criticized because they typically require a selection vari...
Emma Aguila,Marco Angrisani,Luisa R Blanco
Emma Aguila
We study health effects of financial inclusion, particularly ownership of a checking account of older minorities, with focus on Hispanics. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study from 2000 to 2012, we find that, for Hispanics, being...
David Pacini,Frank Windmeijer
David Pacini
The Two-Sample Two-Stage Least Squares (TS2SLS) data combination estimator is a popular estimator for the parameters in linear models when not all variables are observed jointly in one single data set. Although the limiting normal distribut...
Effects of supervision on tax compliance: Evidence from a field experiment in Austria [0.03%]
基于奥地利实地实验的税务监管对纳税遵从度影响的实证研究
Katharina Gangl,Benno Torgler,Erich Kirchler et al.
Katharina Gangl et al.
We conduct a field experiment on tax compliance, focusing on newly founded firms. As a novelty the effect of tax authorities' supervision on timely tax payments is examined. Interestingly, results show no positive overall effect of close su...
Differences by mother's education in the effect of childcare on child obesity [0.03%]
母亲教育水平与幼儿入托机构对儿童肥胖影响之间的关系
Zafar E Nazarov,Michael S Rendall
Zafar E Nazarov
Previous studies have found adverse effects of maternal employment on child obesity for higher educated mothers. Using a quasi-structural model, we find additionally a lower risk of obesity for children of less educated mothers with increas...
Lynne Steuerle Schofield
Lynne Steuerle Schofield
Many promising efforts in the social sciences aim to measure future outcomes (such as wages or health outcomes) given some base level of human capital or ability. They typically fail to recognize the proxies for human capital are all measur...
Nathaniel Baum-Snow,Derek Neal
Nathaniel Baum-Snow
Recent decennial censuses and the American Community Survey (ACS) collect data that permit construction of average hourly wage rates. However, reports concerning usual hours worked during the past year contain errors that create incredible ...