Search for dissertations about: "sample-selection in panel data"
Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words sample-selection in panel data.
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1. Essays on Immigrants' Economic Integration
Abstract : This thesis consists of five papers, related to each other in terms of study-sample, study-subject or methods used. The first paper is concerned with second-generation immigrants' educational attainments, using the Longitudinal Individual Data-set (LINDA), which gave us the possibility to examine changes over time, from ages 16-17 to 21-22 and to compare second-generation immigrants with a randomly-chosen matched control-group of native Swedes. READ MORE
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2. Equality of opportunity, heterogeneity and poverty
Abstract : Paper [I] studies equality of opportunity in Sweden. The distinction between circumstances that constrain an individual’s opportunities and the individual choices also affecting a particular outcome is the main idea of theories of equality of opportunity. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Microeconometrics and Immigrant Assimilation
Abstract : Paper I. Asymptotic bias reduction for a conditional marginal effects estimator in sam- ple selection models. In this article we discuss the di¤erences between the average marginal effect and the mar- ginal effect of the average individual in sample selection models, estimated by the Heck- man procedure. READ MORE
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4. Essays on Poverty, Income Inequality and Health in Transition Economies
Abstract : The essays in this thesis investigate issues related to poverty, income inequality and health in transition economies of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. The major questions analyzed in the essays are the determinants of changes in income inequality observed in the transition region, the role of poverty and public health spending in explaining cross-regional and inter-temporal variations in life expectancy, and the returns to health in the labor market. READ MORE