Information Shocks and the Takeup of Social Programs

David N. Figlio, Sarah Hamersma & Jeffrey Roth
July 16, 2015

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Food Insufficiency: Evidence from a Statewide Probability Sample

Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, Colleen Heflin & Michael Sherraden
June 30, 2015

See related: Food Security

The Use of VA Disability Benefits and Social Security Disability Insurance among Working-Aged Veterans

Janet Wilmoth, Andrew London & Colleen Heflin
June 30, 2015

See related: Veterans

Why Do African Banks Lend So Little?

Svetlana Andrianova, Badi H. Baltagi, Panicos Demetriades & David Fielding
May 31, 2015

Still “Saving Babies”? The Impact of Child Medicaid Expansions on High School Completion Rates

Lincoln H. Groves
This paper explores whether public health insurance expansions to low-income children led to a greater number of high school completers in the 2000s.
May 31, 2015

Is the Grass Greener on the Other Side of the Pacific?

Yingyi Ma
May 24, 2015

See related: China

Affirmative Action in Undergraduate Education

Peter Arcidiacono, Michael Lovenheim & Maria Zhu
May 5, 2015

Firm-Level Productivity Spillovers in China's Chemical Industry: A Spatial Hausman-Taylor Approach

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
Authors assess intrasectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry using panel data on firms from 2004-2006.
May 3, 2015

See related: China

EC3SLS Estimator for a Simultaneous System of Spatial Autoregressive Equations with Random Effects

Badi H. Baltagi & Ying Deng
April 30, 2015

Urban vs. Rural Differences in Prescription Opioid Misuse among Adults in the United States: Informing Region Specific Drug Policies and Interventions

Khary K. Rigg & Shannon M. Monnat
April 30, 2015

Averaged Instrumental Variables Estimators

Yoonseok Lee & Yu Zhou
The authors develop averaged instrumental variables estimators as a way to deal with many weak instruments. 
April 30, 2015

Field Research in Political Science

Diana Kapiszewski, Georgetown University, Washington DC, Lauren M. MacLean, Indiana University, Benjamin L. Read, University of California, Santa Cruz
April 30, 2015

See related: Research Methods

Economic Well-Being among Older-Adult Households: Variation by Veteran and Disability Status

Janet Wilmoth, Andrew London & Colleen Heflin
April 28, 2015

See related: Veterans

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Use of Health Care Services for Diabetes Management

Raeven Faye Chandler & Shannon M. Monnat
April 3, 2015

Hedonic Housing Prices in Paris: An Unbalanced Spatial Lag Pseudo-Panel Model with Nested Random Effects

Badi H. Baltagi, Georges Bresson & Jean-Michel Etienne
March 31, 2015

Estimation of Heterogeneous Panels with Structural Breaks

Badi H. Baltagi
The authors explore whether the common correlated effects estimator have the same asymptotic distribution as if the true change points were known.
February 28, 2015

Carbon Taxes and Fiscal Reform in the United States

Dale W. Jorgenson, Richard J. Goettle, Mun S. Ho & Peter J. Wilcoxen
February 28, 2015

See related: Climate Change

The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and Food Insecurity

Colleen Heflin, Irma Arteaga & Sara Gable
February 28, 2015

See related: Food Security

Hedonic Markets and Sorting Equilibria: Bid-Function Envelopes for Public Services and Neighborhood Amenities

John Yinger
February 28, 2015

See related: Housing

Measuring Peer Effects in the Brazilian School System

Sergio Firpo, Hugo Jales & Cristine Pinto
February 26, 2015

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