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THE EFFECT OF SAMPLE SELECTION AND INITIAL CONDITIONS IN DURATION MODELS:EVIDENCE FROM EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON TRAINING
Duration models job training sample selection
2015/9/18
We investigate the separate effects of a training program on the duration of participants' subsequent employment and unemployment spells. This program randomly assigned volunteers to treatment and con...
Migration and Human Capital: Self-Selection of Indentured Servants to the Americas
eighteenth centuries Migration and Human Capital
2015/7/15
When contracting, European merchants could at least partially observe characteristics such as the health, physical strength, and education of indentured servants.
These characteristics, unobservable...
Health Selection and the Effect of Smoking on Mortality
life expectancy tobacco confounding
2012/10/18
We show that individuals who are in poorer health, independently from smoking, are more likely to start smoking and to smoke more cigarettes than those with better non-smoking health. We present evide...
Semiparametric Selection Models with Binary Outcomes
sample selection binary outcomes marginal effects semiparametric
2012/10/23
This paper addresses the estimation of a semiparametric sample selection index model where both the selection rule and the outcome variable are binary. Since the marginal effects are often of primary ...
Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program
retirement incentive program adverse selection layoff threat university
2012/10/22
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population ...
Wage Dispersion and Labor Turnover with Adverse Selection
adverse selection on-the-job search wage dispersion sorting
2012/10/24
We consider a model of on-the-job search where firms offer long-term wage contracts to workers of different ability. Firms do not observe worker ability upon hiring but learn it gradually over time. W...
Role Selection and Team Performance
role selection in teams team performance takeover game winner’s curse communication experiment
2012/10/25
Team success relies on assigning team members to the right tasks. We use controlled experiments to study how roles are assigned within teams and how this affects team performance. Subjects play the ta...
Incentives vs. Selection in Promotion Tournaments: Can a Designer Kill Two Birds with One Stone?
promotion tournaments heterogenei ty incentive provision selection
2012/10/26
This paper studies the performance of promotion tournaments with heterogeneous participants in two dimensions: incentive provision and selection. Our theoretical analysis reveals a trade-off for the t...
Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being: Evidence from India
son preference prenatal sex selection ultrasound sex ratio at birth gender discrimination child health
2012/10/31
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of pren...
Experts in Experiments: How Selection Matters for Estimated Distributions of Risk Preferences
risk aversion loss aversion internet surveys laboratory experiments
2012/10/31
An ever increasing number of experiments attempts to elicit risk preferences of a population of interest with the aim of calibrating parameters used in economic models. We are concerned with two types...
Is There Selection Bias in Laboratory Experiments? The Case of Social and Risk Preferences
selection bias laboratory experiments external validity social preferences risk preferences
2012/11/1
Laboratory experiments are frequently used to examine the nature of individual preferences and inform economic theory. However, it is unknown whether the preferences of volunteer participants are repr...
Methods explained:Data reduction and model selection techniques
Methods explained Data reduction model selection techniques
2009/11/4
Researchers and analysts now have access to increasingly large data sets. This article outlines some of the problems of dealing with a large number of variables and explains some of the techniques tha...
The Gap Between Immigration And Employment：A Policy-Capturing Analysis of Ethnicity-Driven Selection Biases
Immigration Employment Ethnicity-Driven
2009/11/4
Research over the past two decades has identified the impact of job irrelevant
variables on selection decisions. Many of these variables reflect stereotypes
associated with ethnicity, age or other f...
Assessing Unemployment Traps in Belgium Using Panel Data Sample Selection Models
panel data sample selection models wage equation predicted wages unemployment traps scarring effect
2013/10/25
In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment into employment in Belgium. In order to assess them, we use panel data sample sele...
Self-Selection, Earnings, and Out-Migration: A Longitudinal Study of Immigrants to Germany
return migration immigrant assimilation event history
2013/10/25
In this paper we seek to deepen understanding of out-migration as a social and economic process and to investigate whether cross-sectional earnings assimilation results suffer from selection bias. To ...