The Identification Problem in Econometrics.

Fisher, Franklin M.

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“…28 For the data used in this paper, enrollment rates in villages with private schools are 13 percentage points higher after conditioning on the presence of all types of public schooling, village population and wealth, and accounting for all PC-level time-invariant factors (see regressions given Appendix Table III). 29 Given the importance of the distance to school as a determinant of enrollment, particularly at the primary age and particularly for girls, this is partly due to a decrease in the average distance to schools in such villages (Alderman at. al.…”

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Students today, teachers tomorrow: Identifying constraints on the provision of education

Andrabi

Das

Khwaja

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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With an estimated one hundred and fifteen million children not attending primary school in the developing world, increasing access to education is critical. Resource constraints limit the extent to which demand based subsidies can do so. This paper focuses on a supply-side factor -the availability of low cost teachers -and the resulting ability of the market to offer affordable education. We use data from Pakistan together with official public school construction guidelines to present an Instrumental Variables estimate of the effect of government school construction on private school formation. We find that private schools are three times more likely to emerge in villages with government girls' secondary schools. In contrast, there is little or no relationship between the presence of a private school and pre-existing girls' primary, or boys' primary and secondary schools. Moreover, there are twice as many educated women and private school teachers' wages are 18 percent lower in villages that received a government girls' secondary school. In an environment with poor female education and low mobility, government girls' secondary schools substantially increase the local supply of skilled women. This lowers wages for women in the local labor market and allows the market to offer affordable education. These findings highlight the prominent role of women as teachers in facilitating educational access and resonates with similar historical evidence from developed economies -the students of today are the teachers of tomorrow.

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Students today, teachers tomorrow: Identifying constraints on the provision of education

Andrabi

Das

Khwaja

2013

Journal of Public Economics

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“…Recovering elements of (b 0 ; c 0 ) from = ( 0 1 ; 0 2 ) 0 is, of course, the classical identi…cation problem in systems of structural equations (Fisher, 1966). This example shows, however, that in settable systems, instantaneous or simultaneous causality has no role to play.…”

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“…Speci…cally, by linking response functions across partitions, compatibility ensures functional dependence between …ne and coarse partition e¤ects, generalizing the e¤ect linkages studied in the classical identi…cation problem for linear structural systems (e.g., Fisher, 1966 Suppose that action spaces are compact convex locally convex semilattices or compact locally complete metric semilattices, that type spaces are partially ordered probability spaces, that payo¤s are continuous in actions for each type vector, and that the joint distribution over types induces atomless marginals for each player assigning positive probability only to sets that can be order-separated by a …xed countable set of his types. 13 If, whenever the others employ monotone pure strategies, each player's set of monotone pure-strategy best replies is non-empty and join-closed, 14 then a monotone pure-strategy equilibrium exists.…”

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Causal discourse in a game of incomplete information

White¹,

Xu²,

Chalak³

2014

Journal of Econometrics

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“…This is particularly relevant given that some of the work in the PHARE project has adopted highly non-linear model formulations. Wegge (1965), Fisher (1966, Rothenberg (1971), Bowden (1973), and Richmond (1976) have studied the problem of identification in the nonlinear case in full rank systems. The basic approach is simply to require sufficient restrictions on the general model to ensure that the information matrix has full rank.…”

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Modelling economies in transition: an introduction

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This paper considers the implications of structural breaks, such as have occurred in many transition economies, for econometric modelling based on the multivariate cointegration paradigm. It outlines recent developments on the identification of linear cointegrated systems, discusses some practical problems, and presents an extension to non-linear systems. This is followed by a discussion of the impact of structural breaks on the identification and estimation of such systems. Finally, it relates these issues to the other papers in this volume.

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The Identification Problem in Econometrics.

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Students today, teachers tomorrow: Identifying constraints on the provision of education

Students today, teachers tomorrow: Identifying constraints on the provision of education

Causal discourse in a game of incomplete information

Modelling economies in transition: an introduction

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