Economics News

WP 172 Welfare Reform and Children’s Health

Badi H. Baltagi & Yin-Fang Yen
August 11, 2021

See related: Child & Elder Care, Children, Adolescents, Health Policy

WP 187 Bayesian Spatial Bivariate Panel Probit Estimation

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper formulates and analyzes Bayesian model variants for the analysis of systems of spatial panel data with binary dependent variables.
August 11, 2021

WP 192 How Hospital Value Based Purchasing is a Game of Chance

Andrew I. Friedson, William C. Horrace, and Allison F. Marier
August 11, 2021

WP 205 Labor Unions and Occupational Safety: Event-Study Analysis Using Union Elections

Ling Li, Shawn Rohlin & Perry Singleton
August 11, 2021

WP 225 Density Deconvolution with Laplace Errors and Unknown Variance

Jun Cai, William C. Horrace & Christopher F. Parmeter
The authors consider density deconvolution with zero-mean Laplace noise in the context of an error component regression model.
August 10, 2021

WP 226 Network Competition and Team Chemistry in the NBA

William C. Horrace, Hyunseok Jung & Shane Sanders
The authors consider a heterogeneous social interaction model where agents interact with peers within their own network and agents across other networks.
August 10, 2021

Engelhardt quoted in HousingWire article on pandemic, housing payments

August 6, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Housing, United States

Baltagi article on forecasting with unbalanced panel data published in Journal of Forecasting

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
August 5, 2021

Han, Schwartz paper on fast food proximity and childhood obesity published in RSUE

Jeehee Han, Amy Ellen Schwartz & Brian Elbel
August 5, 2021

See related: Housing, Nutrition, Parenting & Family

Baltagi paper on shifts in time trend panel data published in Econometric Review

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Long Liu
August 5, 2021

Baltagi paper on estimating high dimensional factor models published in Journal of Econometrics

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Fa Wang
August 4, 2021

Shi, Zhu paper on racial bias in school discipline published in EdWorkingPapers

Ying Shi & Maria Zhu
August 4, 2021

See related: Education

Flores-Lagunes comments on Northeast labor gains in Business Insider

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics, says that "people are feeling more comfortable going to restaurants, traveling, and right now in the Northeast, it's a good time to travel because it's not as cold."
July 11, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, Labor, United States

Lovely talks to Bloomberg about Beijing relations with Europe, US

Mary Lovely, professor of economics, discussed Beijing relations with Europe and the U.S. on 'Bloomberg Markets: China Open.' 
July 9, 2021

See related: China, Europe, International Affairs, United States

Jales study on the fertility effects of Korean baby bonus program published in Jour of Asian Econ

Dahae Choo & Hugo Jales
June 25, 2021

See related: East Asia

Rosenthal paper on commercial real estate, urban spatial structure, and COVID-19 published in JUE

Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C. Strange & Joaquin A. Urrego
June 24, 2021

See related: COVID-19

Schwartz quoted in EdSurge article on challenges of student mobility

"It’s not like kids are moving from Boston to Chicago to LA and then back again,” says Amy Ellen Schwartz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Chair in Public Affairs. "Kids for whom housing instability is a problem, many of them are moving around in the same urban area."
June 23, 2021

See related: COVID-19, Health Policy, U.S. Education, United States

Econometrics, 6th Edition

Badi H. Baltagi
June 21, 2021

Lovely discusses India's COVID crisis, US textile imports with NBC

While India constitutes a smaller fraction of imports as compared to China, it still plays a significant role in certain sectors, including raw gems, which makes it difficult to move supply chains outside the country, says Professor Mary Lovely.
June 3, 2021

See related: COVID-19, India, Trade, United States

Flores-Lagunes discusses open jobs, unemployment on Syracuse.com

Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, professor of economics, was quoted in the Syracuse.com article, "An epidemic of open jobs and the unemployed in CNY; for many, work doesn’t work anymore."
May 27, 2021

See related: Labor, New York State

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