Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach

Hugo Jales
This paper proposes a new framework to identify the effects of the minimum wage on the joint distribution of sector and wages in a developing country.
September 30, 2015

See related: Income, Labor

Model Selection in the Presence of Incidental Parameters

Yoonseok Lee & Peter C.B. Phillips
September 30, 2015

Cointegration of Matched Home Purchases and Rental Price Indexes-Evidence from Singapore

Badi H. Baltagi & Jing Li
The authors use the repeated sales method to construct matched home purchase price and rental price series.
September 30, 2015

Examining Rural/Urban Differences in Prescription Opioid Misuse among U.S. Adolescents

Shannon M. Monnat & Khary K. Rigg
September 5, 2015

See related: Health Policy, Substance Use and Addiction

Prohibiting Juvenile Access to Tobacco: Violation Rates, Cigarette Sales, and Youth Smoking

Andrew L. Spivak & Shannon M. Monnat
August 31, 2015

Hedonic Equilibria in Housing Markets: The Case of One-to-One Matching

John Yinger
August 31, 2015

Health, Medical Innovation and Disability Insurance: A Case Study of HIV Antiretroviral Therapy

Perry Singleton
This study examines the effect of health on SSDI outcomes. The effect is identified by a new antiretroviral therapy to treat the human immunodeficiency virus. 
August 31, 2015

See related: Health Policy

Testing For Spatial Lag and Spatial Error Dependence in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model Using Double Length Artificial Regressions

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
The authors test using artificial double length regressions
August 31, 2015

Amenity Migration in the New Global Economy: Current Issues and Research Priorities

Kristi S. Lekies, David Matarrita-Cascante, Rebecca Schewe & Richelle Winkler
August 24, 2015

See related: Civil Rights, Migration

Adventures in Comparative-Historical Analysis

Edited by James Mahoney, Northwestern University, Illinois, Kathleen Thelen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
July 30, 2015

See related: Research Methods

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

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

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