Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using�Bounds

Blundell, Richard; Gosling, Amanda; Ichimura, Hidehiko; Meghir, Costas

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“…There are other techniques we could have used to correct for sample selection across the distribution. For example, Blundell, Gosling, Ichimura and Meghir (2007) use the approach suggested in Manski (1994) to bound the possible impact of selection. The idea is simple: even if we know nothing about the productivity of non-workers, bounds can be obtained by assuming either that all non-workers are more productive than workers (resulting in the upper bound) or that all non-workers are less productive than workers (resulting in the lower bound).…”

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Counterfactual distributions with sample selection adjustments: Econometric theory and an application to the Netherlands

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Several recent papers use the quantile regression decomposition method of Machado and Mata (2005) to analyze the gender gap in log wages across the distribution. Since employment rates often differ substantially by gender, sample selection is potentially a serious issue for such studies. To address this issue, we extend the Machado-Mata technique to account for selection. In addition, we prove that this procedure yields consistent and asymptotically normal estimates of the quantiles of the counterfactual distribution that it is designed to simulate.We illustrate our approach by analyzing the gender log wage gap between men and women who work full time in the Netherlands. Because the fraction of women working full time in the Netherlands is quite low, this is a case in which sample selection is clearly important. We find a positive selection of women into full-time work and find that about two thirds of this selection is due to observables such as education and experience with the remainder due to unobservables. Our decompositions show that the majority of the gender gap across the log wage distribution is due to differences between men and women in the distributions of returns to labor market characteristics rather than to differences in the distributions of the characteristics themselves.

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Counterfactual distributions with sample selection adjustments: Econometric theory and an application to the Netherlands

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“…Based on these relatively weak assumptions one can effectively tighten the bounds on the causal effect of the treatment. In current years, the number of studies applying a nonparametric bounding method has been growing (Blundell et al 2007;Gundersen and Kreider 2009;Hill and Kreider 2009;De Haan 2010).…”

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Does education promote social capital? Evidence from IV analysis and nonparametric-bound analysis

2011

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This study uses the British National Child Development Study to examine the effect of educational attainment on social capital at the individual level. Social trust and membership of voluntary groups are considered as two basic indicators of social capital. We employ the IV analysis and nonparametric bound analysis to tackle the problem of education endogeneity. Both the approaches reveal that the OLS estimator of the educational effect suffers from an upward bias in the study of group membership. We do not observe any significant bias in the educational effect on social trust. Our empirical findings indicate that education has a positive influence in promoting social trust and membership of voluntary groups.

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“…The number of studies applying a nonparametric bounding method has been growing in recent years (Gundersen and Kreider (2009), Hill and Kreider (2009), Kreider and Pepper (2008), Blundell et al (2007), Ger n and Schellhorn (2006), González (2005), Pepper (2000)). There has been no study though, that applies this method to identify the causal impact of parents' schooling on child's schooling.…”

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The Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Child’s Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

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2011

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The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis de Haan, M. Link to publication Citation for published version (APA):de Haan, M. (2010). The effect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis. Amsterdam: Amsterdam School of Economics. General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Download date: 10 May 2018The e ect of parents' schooling on child's schooling:A nonparametric bounds analysis Monique de Haan * Abstract A strong positive relation between parents' schooling and child's schooling does not necessarily re ect a causal relation. The recent empirical literature has used di erent approaches to identify intergenerational schooling e ects and produces contradictory ndings. This paper uses a new approach to investigate the e ect of parents' schooling on child's schooling: a nonparametric bounds analysis. By relying on a set of relatively weak and in part testable assumptions, this paper obtains informative bounds on the average causal impact of mother's and father's schooling on the schooling of their child. The tightest bounds, which are obtained using monotone instrumental variables, show that increasing mother's or father's schooling to a college degree has a positive e ect on child's schooling which is signi cantly di erent from zero, but substantially lower than the OLS estimates.

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Changes in the Distribution of Male and Female Wages Accounting for Employment Composition Using�Bounds

Cited by 252 publications

References 42 publications

Counterfactual distributions with sample selection adjustments: Econometric theory and an application to the Netherlands

Counterfactual distributions with sample selection adjustments: Econometric theory and an application to the Netherlands

Does education promote social capital? Evidence from IV analysis and nonparametric-bound analysis

The Effect of Parents’ Schooling on Child’s Schooling: A Nonparametric Bounds Analysis

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