Sökning: "omitted variable bias"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 9 avhandlingar innehållade orden omitted variable bias.

  1. 1. Contract Choice and Trust in Informal Groundwater Markets

    Författare :Yashodha Yashodha; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Output-shared contract; Fixed-price contract; Lab-in-field experiment; Random parameter model; Endogenous matching; Omitted variable bias; Trust; Altruism; Kinship;

    Sammanfattning : Bargaining and Contract Choice: Evidence from Informal Groundwater Contracts Informal market arrangements are often in place when formal institutions are too weak to establish a formal mechanism for resource allocation. In this paper, we study informal groundwater contracts in India, in particular, the bargaining power of sellers and buyers. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Learning and earning: studies on a cohort of Swedish men

    Författare :Sofia Sandgren; Gunnar Eliasson; John Bishop; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Business and economics; returns to education; ability bias; earnings distributions; lifetime earnings; Ekonomi; Business and economics; Ekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Earnings of Swedish Young Men: Griliches’ (1976) study on the wage premium for formal schooling in America is replicated on the Swedish Malmö Longitudinal Study, an individual data base with unusually good ability measures collected at young age. The model is tried for two years, when the men were 25 and 30 years old, respectively. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Microeconomic Policy for Development: Essays on Trade and Environment, Poverty and Education

    Författare :Miguel Quiroga; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; absenteeism; aggregation bias; comparative advantage; decomposition analysis; education; environmental endowment; environmental regulation; factor content; geography; hyperbolic discounting; living standards; mandatory attendance; non-homothetic preferences; pollution haven; Porter hypothesis; poverty; present-biased preferences; teaching; time-inconsistent preferences; trade;

    Sammanfattning : Abstracts This thesis contains three papers analyzing different issues. Paper 1: “Do Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations Have a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?” We study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Wages, unemployment and regional differences : empirical studies of the Palestinian labor market

    Författare :Ted N. Aranki; Lars Hultkrantz; Aysit Tansel; Örebro universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Palestinian labor force; closure policy; foreign workers; wage; employment; returns to schooling; omitted variable bias; measurement error; unemployment duration; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four essays analyzing wages, unemployment and regional differences in the Palestinian labor market. Paper [I] investigates the effects of the Israeli closure policy on Palestinian wage earnings. Closure has a significant impact on the Palestinian labor force in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Empirical studies of auctions of non-distressed residential real estate

    Författare :Rosane Hungria-Gunnelin; Mats Wilhelmsson; Hans Wijkander; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; housing market; auctions; underpricing; bidding strategies; time-on-market; brokers commission fee structures; information asymmetry; winner s curse; bostadsmarknad; auktioner; underprissättning; budgivningsstrategier; time-on-market; provisionsstruktur; informationsasymmetri; winner s curse; Real Estate and Construction Management; Fastigheter och byggande;

    Sammanfattning : Real estate auctions have become a popular sales mechanism in Sweden in the past couple of decades when the internet facilitated the marketing of properties for sale. With the possibility to display several exterior and interior pictures of the property rather than the single façade picture style of traditional newspapers advertisements, and a more detailed description of the object, brokers significantly increased the number of potential buyers at the showings of properties for sale. LÄS MER