Economics News

WP 198 Retention Heterogeneity in New York City Schools

Douglas Almond, Ajin Lee & Amy Ellen Schwartz
Using regression discontinuity methods, the authors find that female students are 25% more likely to be retained in their grade due to exam failure than boys. 
October 31, 2016

See related: New York State

WP 197 The Health Care Expenditure and Income: A Global Perspective

Badi H. Baltagi, Raffaele Lagravinese, Francesco Moscone & Elisa Tosetti
This paper investigates the long-run economic relationship between health care expenditure and income in the world.
October 31, 2016

Rothbart study on middle school bullying, safety and belonging published in AERJ

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel & Michah W. Rothbart
September 30, 2016

See related: Education

Rothenberg article on skill transferability, migration and development published in AER

Samuel Bazzi, Arya Gaduh, Alexander D. Rothenberg & Maisy Wong
August 31, 2016

WP 191 A Framework for Measurement Error in Self-Reported Health Conditions

Ling Li & Perry Singleton
This study develops and estimates a model of measurement error in self-reported health conditions. 
July 31, 2016

Lee paper on social tension from income class segregation published in Jour of Business & Econ Stats

Yoonseok Lee & Donggyun Shin
July 18, 2016

Schwartz analysis on housing choice voucher recipients and good schools published in JPAM

Ingrid Gould Ellen, Keren Mertens Horn & Amy Ellen Schwartz
June 26, 2016

See related: Housing

Schwartz article on the causal effect of moving schools on student performance

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel & Sarah A. Cordes
June 17, 2016

Schwartz paper on neighborhoods schools and obesity published in PLOS ONE

Brian Elbel, Sean P. Corcoran, Amy Ellen Schwartz
June 15, 2016

See related: Health Policy, Longevity

Veil of Darkness

William Horrace uses an economist’s analytical approach to study whether traffic-stop patterns reveal racial bias by police officers.
June 1, 2016

See related: Civil Rights, Race & Ethnicity

Schwartz study on breakfast, obesity and academic performance published in JPAM

Sean P. Corcoran, Brian Elbel & Amy Ellen Schwartz
May 31, 2016

See related: Education, Food Security, Nutrition

Schwartz on learning environments in small and large high schools published in Econ of Edu Review

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel &Matthew Wiswall
May 31, 2016

WP 190 The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Marriage

Ling Li & Perry Singleton
May 31, 2016

See related: Parenting & Family

Horrace article on streetlight locations and racial profiling published in Review of Econ and Stats

William C. Horrace & Shawn M. Rohlin
April 30, 2016

Rothenberg paper on Indonesia’s informal sector published in World Development

Alexander D. Rothenberg, Arya Gaduh, Nicholas E. Burgera, Charina Chazali, Indrasari Tjandraningsih, Rini Radikun, Cole Sutera & Sarah Weilant
March 31, 2016

See related: East Asia

Baltagi generalized mixed regressive spatial autoregressive panel data article published in ER

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
This article suggests random and fixed effects spatial two-stage least squares estimators for the generalized mixed regressive spatial autoregressive panel data model.
March 31, 2016

Schwartz article on impacts of classifying NYC students as overweight published in PNAS

Douglas Almond, Ajin Lee & Amy Ellen Schwartz
March 28, 2016

Lee study on treatment effects with unobserved heterogeneity published in J of Business & Econ Stats

Sung Jae Jun, Yoonseok Lee & Youngki Shin
March 16, 2016

Batalgi article on change points in panel models published in Econometric Reviews

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Long Liu
February 29, 2016

Baltagi article on heterogeneous panels with structural breaks published in Journal of Econometrics

Badi H. Baltagi, Qu Feng & Chihwa Kao
The authors find that the common correlated effects estimator have the same asymptotic distribution as if the true change points were known.
February 29, 2016

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