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WP 195 The Academic Effects of Chronic Exposure to Neighborhood Violence

Amy Ellen Schwartz, Agustina Laurito, Johanna Lacoe, Patrick Sharkey & Ingrid Gould Ellen
October 31, 2016

See related: Crime & Violence

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

WP 196 Stationary Points for Parametric Stochastic Frontier Models

William C. Horrace & Ian A. Wright
Stability of the stationary point and "wrong skew" results are derived or simulated for common parametric assumptions on the model. Identification is discussed.
October 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

WP 190 The Dynamic Effect of Disability on Marriage

Ling Li & Perry Singleton
May 31, 2016

See related: Parenting & Family

WP 189 Asymptotic Power of the Sphericity Test Under Weak and Strong Factors

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Fa Wang
This paper studies the asymptotic power for the sphericity test in a fixed effect panel data model proposed.
February 29, 2016

WP 188 Prediction in a Generalized Spatial Panel Data Model with Serial Correlation

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
This paper considers the generalized spatial panel data model with serial correlation proposed by Lee and Yu (2012).
January 31, 2016

WP 186 The Behavioral Impacts of Property Tax Relief: Salience or Framing?

Phuong Nguyen-Hoang & John Yinger
The authors explore the impact of STAR on the price elasticity of demand for school quality based on the concepts of salience and framing.
November 30, 2015

WP 185 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

WP 184 Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage in a Developing Country

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

WP 182 Health, Medical Innovation and Disability Insurance

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

WP 183 Testing For Spatial Lag and Spatial Error Dependence in a Fixed Effects Panel Data Model

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

WP 181 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

WP 180 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

WP 179 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

WP 178 Estimation and Identification of Change Points in Panel Models

Badi H. Baltagi, Chihwa Kao & Long Liu.
The authors prove consistency and derive the asymptotic distributions of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) and First Difference (FD) estimators and that the FD estimator is robust for all cases considered.
December 31, 2014

WP 177 Adaptive Elastic Net GMM Estimation with Many Invalid Moment Conditions

Mehmet Caner, Xu Han & Yoonseok Lee
This paper develops the adaptive elastic net GMM estimator in large dimensional models with many possibly invalid moment conditions.
December 31, 2014

WP 174 Random Effects, Fixed Effects and Hausman’s Test for the Generalized Mixed Regressive Panel

Badi H. Baltagi & Long Liu
This paper gives random & fixed effects spatial 2-stage least squares estimators for the generalized mixed regressive spatial autoregressive panel data model.
November 30, 2014

WP 173 Firm-level Productivity Spillovers in China’s Chemical Industry

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper assesses the role of intra-sectoral spillovers in total factor productivity across Chinese producers in the chemical industry.
November 30, 2014

WP 175 Sources of Productivity Spillovers: Panel Data Evidence from China

Badi H. Baltagi, Peter H. Egger & Michaela Kesina
This paper uses a panel data-set of firms observed from 2004-2007 to assess productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry. 
November 30, 2014

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