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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"unobserved ability"”.
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The Firm Size Effect: An Application of Hierarchy Theories
… at best. The strongest finding to date is that unobserved ability is a significant factor. The question of interest here is why do wages increase as the size firm increases? Hierarchy theories take a different approach towards the analysis of firms in comparison to the alternate theories which …
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Microcredit Programs and Evaluation of Women's Success
… variable bias, typically caused by unavailability of data on unobserved ability of individuals. In the absence of suitable instruments, this study finds information about unobserved ability from the marriage market. It is found that incorporating estimates of women's unobserved …
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Three Essays on *Education and Human Capital
… This finding can be interpreted as evidence of unobserved ability differences among people with different amounts of schooling.
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Essays on Development in Sub-Saharan African Countries
… panel data methods to address the problem of unobserved "ability" bias. For pseudo panel, we use age, gender and some other time-persistent criterions to define the cohorts and replace the individual observations with the intra-cohort means. Individual time-invariant factors that influencing …